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?
CA, NY and NJ have been dragged down by public employee unions plus other liberal polocies.
Laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs.
Failure of Liberalism ping.
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.
I understand that California’s economy is in the tank. That business is leaving every day, that unemployment is rising, that people are squashed beneath the heaviest taxes in the nation, that crime is on the rise, that the budget is broke and going deeper in the red every day, but why is this bad? As I understand it, it’s exactly how socialism works. You spend other people’s money until it’s gone. They have reached utopia. The question is “now what?”. Socialism never moves past this point. Come on California Socialists’, move to the next step. Stop crying and making a fuss. Show us how it works and stop looking at Federal funds to bail it out. Socialism either works or doesn’t...
I was in LA a couple of weeks ago. The only thing it needs to look like Detroit is snow.
Well, we had all better keep an eye on Obama...he does seem to be trying to bring America in line with California!
I would suggest that if this spending nonsense does not stop now, we (the United States) will be California!
The re-writing of bankruptcy laws to protect the unions, taking over private industry, spending money by borrowing well into the future, the upcoming decline in our rating (with the associated higher interest rates) - all are extremely worrisome to the point of revolution.
When will the bubble burst?
Despite the defeat of these Propositions, the voters will elect a Liberal Democrat Governor in the next election that will make Arnold look like Reagan.
I am surrounded by clueless Fools and Idiots.
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.
Bernie Parks, LA city councilman gets a whopping $178,789 a year salary plus $22,000 a month from city retirement benefits.
The problem the states have is, unlike the FEDS, they can’t print their out of financial crisis.
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.