Yo, California! How's liberalism working out for ya?

KnoxNews.com ^ | 5-24-09 | Greg Johnson

[joinedafterattack]

The enlightened state on America's left coast governed by the Terminator may need a little CGI to maintain its illusion of prosperity. While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was larger than life in a big screen cameo in Terminator Salvation last week, his budget proposals proved puny and 5 of his 6 fiscal proposals were voted down decisively.

In every area, from taxes to social policy to spending to environmental policy, California leans hard left. And now the nation's most progressive state faces a $21 billion deficit that may eventually be plugged by Washington which means, of course, that those states and taxpayers who managed their budgets conservatively will again be bailing out the irresponsible.

NewYork is broke, too. So is New Jersey. Their liberal sister states of Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota and Oregon plan to raise taxes on the wealthy - the Barack Obama Option, or BOO as I'd like to call it - which at least a couple of commentators recognize as foolish.

So, to my sophisticated, progressive friends in those states and for those begging for the BOO option across America, based on the empirical evidence so readily at hand, how's that liberalism working out for ya?

[Cobra64]

Did you get that picture from President Obama?

LOL. No, I made it. It wouldn't surprise me if a DU lurker were to swipe it though.

Hussein Obama probably has this on his desk:

Here's his license plate:

And his followers:

[Deagle]

Heh! Nice work!

[driftless2]

California is the realization of the statement made by De Tocqueville (and some others) that once certain people find out they can extract gobs of money from other more well-off people, and the former are in the majority, they will spend the latter’s money like it’s going out of style. And even when they’re broke, they’ve got the gall to ask for more.

[VeniVidiVici]

CA, NY and NJ have been dragged down by public employee unions plus other liberal polocies.

I read just the other day that Orlando plans on laying off some firefighters. As part of their evidence that the city is acting stupidly, the union representing the firefighters said that the city called in those firefighters who will be laid off in the coming months during their off-duty time which meant they get oovertime pay automatically.

Not only that, they get a MINIMUM OF 4 HOURS OF PAY whether they come in for 3hrs and 55mins or just 5mins.

Ridiculous.

[BigFinn]

The State is jumping into the abyss like that animated gif a few entries up... and yet you see things like this....

Bernie Parks, LA city councilman gets a whopping $178,789 a year salary plus $22,000 a month from city retirement benefits.

[central_va]

The problem the states have is, unlike the FEDS, they can’t print their out of financial crisis.

[Cobra64]

Thanks. Feel free to copy and post whereever you can.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

They like it and don’t see any problem. Naturally, they put the blame for being broke on taxes that are too low. I kid you not.

When you tell them you are over-taxed, they say the only reason you make what you do is due to taxes. I kid you not. I had one tell me that the only reason we make what we do is because your employer knows you have to pay taxes on your income.

Maybe I am not saying it the way he did. He said, “if your taxes went down, your employer would lower your pay because you aren’t paying taxes anymore”. This dope literally tied pay and taxes, as if suddenly your employer is richer and has more money to shovel to you just because you have a tax burden.

Liberalism is a severe mental disorder.

I have lived in California all of my life and the California liberals are dillusional, illogical, and in complete denial. They blame all fiscal problems on greedy corporation and taxes that are too low. I’m not kidding.

So they love Obama and love his liberalism and love what he is doing, all they while they deny or justify, with knee-jerk ignorance and glee — the very fiscal damage that is beoig done as a result of those idiotic socialist policies.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Any CA FR people have idea how Arnuld is going to close the money gap. I think he was betting on a bailout from Hussein but the Islamo-marxist said we are out of money.

Yes. Arnold wants to leave behind a smoke screen, under cover of darkness. He just wants to escape and push the $20 billion shortfall on the next governor. This rolling $20 billion shortfall is on its 4th year.

Arnold’s budget is smoke and mirrors. The “plan” to cut $20 billion to make up the deficit is basically, borrow $10 billion, assume a Fed Gov bailout, and assume the rosiest of revenue projections. I kid you not.

It’s all here, including this gem, “the expectation of $5 billion in federal money and $10 billion in proceeds from the sale of bonds for the state government’s cash-flow purposes and for more than $8 billion in unpaid bills.”

Whoever would buy CA bonds is more than brain dead, more than hopeless, more than lobotomized. I would buy Portugal’s bonds before California’s.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6944VC20101005

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

When I finally retire and leave CA, I will be laughing too. right now I am crying. I am betting Jerry brainless Brown will be governor once again.

California is doomed.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I am in Sutter County which is one of the most conservative in the state of CA. It is all I can do for now until I can retire and escape from behind enemy occuped lines and rejoin with people living in America.