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California budget mess: Where did our money go?
Mercury News ^ | 2/8/09 | Paul Rogers and Leigh Poitinger

Posted on 02/08/2009 10:05:32 AM PST by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 02/08/2009 10:05:32 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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2 posted on 02/08/2009 10:06:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

A Ponzi scheme always fails.


3 posted on 02/08/2009 10:07:43 AM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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Republican and Democratic politicians in Sacramento have shirked their responsibility for the past decade, papering over shortfalls that started after the dot-com bubble popped in 2001.

It sure as the heck wasn’t conservative Republicans who did this to the state... regardless how the liberal rags and Dems spin the numbers.


4 posted on 02/08/2009 10:07:55 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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Nice try at blaming the people, fool. People don’t trust govt cuts because the people running the govt cannot be trusted.

They cannot be trusted because for the most part, they are economically illiterate, and couldn’t run a McDonalds for a profit. They’ll do anything to stay in office because, they’d be penniless otherwise.


5 posted on 02/08/2009 10:08:54 AM PST by Da Coyote
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By “fool”, I meant Levy.


6 posted on 02/08/2009 10:10:11 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: NormsRevenge

This is exactly what you get when voters elect the stupid and incompetent, aka sniveling liberals, and entrust them with taxpayer funds.


7 posted on 02/08/2009 10:11:15 AM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
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To: NormsRevenge

Wonder how much the criminal justice and health numbers are inflated by the illegals and the third worlders invited here by Ted Kennedy and his ilk.

Would be nice to know.


8 posted on 02/08/2009 10:11:22 AM PST by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: NormsRevenge
We got what we wanted and we've never figured out how to pay for it.

Pretty well sums up America at large the last twenty years or so.

10 posted on 02/08/2009 10:13:32 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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This is not about cutting car taxes and putting more prisoners in jail for longer sentences. It is about illegals and entitlement users, period. In short, socialism that supports corrupt legislative, voting and local governance. This is just a ploy at laying blame away from the real causes.


11 posted on 02/08/2009 10:14:27 AM PST by Gaffer
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Wonder if the “tax the rich” help feed the loss?

IIRC some of the richest families bid the Golden State Adios and took their money and businesses elsewhere (Buck knife comes to mind) - and the losses the first year where on the order of 10s of millions.....

12 posted on 02/08/2009 10:16:03 AM PST by ASOC (This space could be employed, if I could only get a bailout...)
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That’s interesting, but it doesn’t include a lot of basic stuff. Like, for instance, how much more interest is the state paying on the huge bond issues that Arnold pushed through when he took office?

Also, how much of the extra money spent on law enforcement was necessary, and how much was due to stuff like special bingo rooms and hot tubs for the prisoners, and big salary increases for the unions?


13 posted on 02/08/2009 10:17:52 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Coming to America.


14 posted on 02/08/2009 10:20:34 AM PST by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama..................Repent Herod!................./Tom McClintock 2012!/)
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To: NormsRevenge

Where did your money go? I’m gonna take a stab at this. How about wasted on healthcare and social services for millions upon millions of illegal aliens? I’m sure democrats (esp. california democrats) will come up with an alternate hypothesis though...which will be wrong of course and I for one am looking forward to seeing how they reconcile this situation without admitting the truth. Pass the popcorn please.


15 posted on 02/08/2009 10:24:06 AM PST by RC one
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notice they never break out the cost of the friggin
ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!
16 posted on 02/08/2009 10:24:56 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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"Everybody's got somebody to blame, but in the end these are services people wanted," Levy added.

That's it! Everybody wanted to feed, educate, imprison and provide health care to countless illegals.

Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best.

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17 posted on 02/08/2009 10:26:24 AM PST by freespirited (Help save humanity. Cure the RINOvirus.)
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If Prop 8 failed, things would be perfect in CA. (sarc)


18 posted on 02/08/2009 10:27:30 AM PST by Radagast the Fool (Repo Man's ALWAYS intense!)
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To: NormsRevenge
We got what we wanted and we've never figured out how to pay for it.

It's Budgeting 101. California politicians skipped that class.

19 posted on 02/08/2009 10:28:28 AM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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I agree. The support burden for Illegals is killing our state. That along with the death hold of the Teacher’s union and silly pet projects like Stem Cell Research and the jerkinator’s sell out to the Global Warning clowns.


20 posted on 02/08/2009 10:29:24 AM PST by MrBigA (Proud to be an Elderado)
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