Posted on 04/08/2009 8:46:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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You jump first, Gub.
Enjoy the ride to the bottom.
ping for later
The wealth flight from CA will be massive.
It will start with businesses and those who rent but do well.
I was planning to move but I couldn’t make the numbers work. But I won’t be buying anything of substance in CA — I am willing to schlep stuff from other states where I work to save 2 or 4 percent.
It won’t pass. People in my state are fed up. Even many Democrats are pissed off. Everyone in the sate just assumes Arnold is a Democrat now, he is so far left in his spaending and taxing.....If the GOP could get it’s act together in this state, they could elect a Republican Governor and unseat that bitch Barbara Boxer in 2010 as well as gain some seast in the state assembly and senate. But so far, the California GOP is a disaster.
Please, Californians, if you go to other states, do not try to remake them into California-lite. Same goes for New Yorkers.
I will vote no on any of these that raises taxes or fees. However, if there is money transferred from one program to another I might vote for it. For instance, if money is taken from anti-smoking funds, and transferred elsewhere, hell yes I’ll vote for it. It will piss off the liberals to no end.
With masses ready to follow Limbaugh out of NY, and, Californians being forced out also, a mighty collision may occur, say in Kansas or Florida. Tax base collapse is a common denominator in all states now, and, efforts by the Fed govt. to delay things is driven by a desire to buy time to transfer as much property to other coffers before the mechanism for transfer, the big banks and financial entities (e.g. AIG) fold themselves. ...hardly something to cause a drumbeat to save profligate California.
There is no sign that we will still have our freedom when the time for a recovery comes around, or that any interest in our freedom will be the object of government at that time. The leaning to the left by this administration is to the left of known leftists, and hardly reassurring. The Congressional Black Caucus has just visited and celebrated Fidel Castro...what happened to Obama?
Bailing out California is not to be recommended..same with all other states.
Both the state of California and the Fed Govt are after the funds in the battered CALPERS pension funds....unconscionably...and, the pension funds are being pressured to accept TOXIC assets by Geithner. Calpers should not avail their threatened pension funds any further. That Swarzenegger is asking for CALPERS money is representative of how desperate he is, for Geithner..the same.
I hope it fails miserably
Cut massively you pos rino governor. Then take out the ax and fire 1 out of every 4 government employees. Then step down in shame.
He is way in over his head, he is being played by the very people he tried to fight against in 2003. Schwarzenegger thought Sacramento would be a movie set where he would ride in with chiseled arms holding a variety of firearms and weapons, while the crooks and cronies in the state capitol all fall to the ground (Cue Wilhelm screams).
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I made the numbers work in 2000 by continuing to do the same job in Idaho that I did in San Diego. That worked well until last November. My customers have lots of work for me...and no contracts signed to pay for it. Thus far, there aren't any local jobs with similar income. If you move, be sure the new location works economically if your employment options change. I'm still much better off than if I had stayed in San Diego. The lower cost of living makes it possible to consider a lower paying job to keep food on the table.
You know, I’d hate to give the White House ideas, but when he started tossing around trillions like they were nothing, I thought that another move for him to make would be to address every state’s budget deficit. In a real Federalism-destroying move, he can toss them enough federal money to wipe out their total deficit as long as they balance their annual budget. Millions of voters (and especially retired teachers and state workers) would be ecstatic, he’d make vassals of every state government, he’d have strings to control every state on important issues, and it would only waste another trillion or so. He’d look like he was promoting fiscal responsiblity, he’d be using our own money against us to give an excuse to control every level of government, and he’d be hailed as a hero while continuing to flush trillions down a bottomless pit.
I wonder what the Governor and the Legislature say when confronted with the fact that state spending has far exceeded both the CPI and population increases and state employee numbers have continued to climb rapidly ...
I can do my job anywhere in the country -- and do. I am sending this to you from Richmond, VA. I wanted to go to Grapevine or Irving, Texas.
But I can't move the home right now for close to what I need for it and the rental market is glutted, too.
God gave us patience for a reason. I thank Him for that now more than ever.
Thank you. N. Dallas and Austin are a bastion of transplants and it's nutz. I've had to peel many a tree-hugger off my front door pandering signatures and donations for one project or another.
"When we are able to explain to the people, they get it," Schwarzenegger said. "We know people are furious. But once we explain to them what we are trying to do, they support it."
"None of us like raising taxes," Schwarzenegger said. "(But) anyone who says you can solve this without raising taxes is hallucinating, is on drugs or has a math problem."
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The voters are the ones that were played.
Schwarzenegger was just the "electable" replacement if Gray Davis were to be recalled. The letter by his name didn't mean anything to the power brokers.
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