Replies

Well, it is in a way... California is utterly uncompetitive in Presidential politics and thus both parties can freely ignore it and its needs. We get about 70 cents back on every dollar sent to the Feds while New Mexico, for example, gets over TWO DOLLARS back for each tax dollar. We can't get even a pittance of what we're rightfully owed for housing illegal immigrants and the Fed's inept border policy, needed for detaining them... There's something like $5 billion a year that we should be getting for doing the work of the Feds that we're not getting. I think we're getting maybe 1/10 that. It's an obscenity!

Bush, a border governor, should be our ally particularly in the environment of the War on Terror but he's not. Not. At. All. He's a baldfaced liar and scoundrel who's every bit as open borders as the know-nothings from the north east and the fly over country who insist it's "no big deal" to let a few hundred-thousand illegals flood across monthly. Right. Come down here, folks. We're on the verge of losing our culture, our heritage, you're on the verge of losing mightily as the state becomes overrun with non-English speaking peoples, born among the cleptocrasies and corruptions of Central and South Asia and America, who choose to live in urban ghettos rather than assimilate into westernized American society. Coupled with the militant multi-culturalism you can't lift a finger to mainstream these people even if they were or become legalized. It isn't CUTE, people. This is SERIOUS.

Come down here, folks. We're on the verge of losing our culture, our heritage, you're on the verge of losing mightily as the state becomes overrun with non-English speaking peoples, born among the cleptocrasies and corruptions of Central and South Asia and America, who choose to live in urban ghettos rather than assimilate into westernized American society.

Thanks for the warning.

We get about 70 cents back on every dollar sent to the Feds . . .

Based on the contents of the paragraph above, I contend that reducing California's "return" on Federal taxes to 0 cents on every dollar you folks send to Washington would be the best thing to happen to this country.

newzjunkey wrote:
We get about 70 cents back on every dollar sent to the Feds while New Mexico, for example, gets over TWO DOLLARS back for each tax dollar. We can't get even a pittance of what we're rightfully owed for housing illegal immigrants and the Fed's inept border policy, needed for detaining them.

Liberals see this as a reason that federal spending on social programs and other extraconstitutional spending should be increased in California.

Conservatives see this as evidence that we should reduce federal spending and reduce federal taxes and get the federal government out of many programs for which there is no constitutional authority for the federal involvement that exists today. Sending money to Washington DC so a bunch of corrupt politicians can divvy it up to enhance their own power is stupid, not to mention inefficient. Much of the federal budget should never be routed through Washington in the first place. Most of it should be handled entirely by states and local governments. The entire Department of Education is one example.