[DoughtyOne]

Around 1995 the LAUSD had close to a $9 billion dollar budget. Even at that time over one third of it's students were the children of illegal immigrants. This means that $3 billion dollars was only the education price tag for the children of illegal immigrants in just one town.

It's 2004, nine years later. Since 1995 we have spent around $30 billion dollars to educate the children of illegal immigrants in just Los Angeles.

The citizens of California voted to quit spending money on illegal immigrants and their children. As you may recall, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that election. Gray Davis never appealed it to the Spreme Court.

Now you can blame California all you like, but Californians do not appoint the members of the 9th Circuit Court. Today the state is around $40 billion in debt. As I have shown you, $30 billion of that is the cost of educating the children of parents from another nation. California does not set immigration policy, or have the authority to manage the borders of this nation, even it's own.

This doesn't even address the issues of the schools outside of Los Angeles in the state. It doesn't address the healthcare costs for illegals across the state. It doesn't address additional police, courts and prison costs.

Yep, remind me of how California's problems are all of it's own devising. You say that California has been messing itself. No my friend, it's been messed on, and we're sick of it. Federal government policy and appointments have almost singlehandedly destroyed it.

[JohnnyZ]

Sorry, I forgot to blame everything on the Mexicans.

[Ingtar]

California is unlikely to have Bush on the ballot, unless the Democratic legislature votes in an exception to the rules. Moving the convention to so late in the season to tie it to 911 has cost them the ability to be on the ballot in DC, WV, CA, IL, and AL if they follow the rule of law.

[wgeorge2001]

"Yep, remind me of how California's problems are all of it's own devising. You say that California has been messing itself. No my friend, it's been messed on, and we're sick of it. Federal government policy and appointments have almost singlehandedly destroyed it."


Now wait a minute, how can you say that California has been messed on, this sounds much like the standard mantra of the left defending itself as a "victim" of one sort or another. Every conservative in the country realizes that California became a communist nation of it's own accord many years ago and is now enjoying the consequences of ignorant socialist democrat policies and STATE government mismanagement. Many conservatives believe that the left is the enemy within America, as I do.
Let's be honest, California created it's own mess and was dumped on by it's "forward thinking (foolish)" politicians who run it like the communists run communist countries. If what you say is true, wouldn't all the states be in the same mess that California is? Conservative states generally do better and the more conservative they are the better they do.
You,sir, are wrong and I hope you realize it. What states in the country are now in bankruptcy are liberal states and just because liberals refuse to believe they are the problem does not mean they are not the problem. They are the problem, they really are! As you sow, so shall you reap.