Posted on 05/26/2009 12:48:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Americans should look carefully at the anti-politician, anti-government mood exhibited in California last week. Just as Proposition 13 and the anti-tax movement of 1978 were the forerunners of the Reagan presidential victory, so the results of last Tuesday's vote are a harbinger of things to come.
The repudiation of the California establishment in the series of initiative defeats could hardly have been more decisive. Five taxing and spending measures were rejected by 62.6 to 66.4 percent of the voters. That is a consistent majority of enormous potential. An even larger majority, 73.9 percent, approved the proposition limiting elected officials' salaries when there is a deficit.
This vote is the second great signal that the American people are getting fed up with corrupt politicians, arrogant bureaucrats, greedy interests and incompetent, destructive government.
The elites ridiculed or ignored the first harbinger of rebellion, the recent tea parties. While it will be harder to ignore this massive anti-tax, anti-spending vote, they will attempt to do just that.
Voters in our largest state spoke unambiguously, but politicians and lobbyists in Sacramento are ignoring or rejecting the voters' will, just as they are in Albany, N.Y., and Trenton, N.J. The states with huge government machines have basically moved beyond the control of the people. They have become castles of corruption, favoritism and wastefulness. These state governments are run by lobbyists for the various unions through bureaucracies seeking to impose the values of a militant left. Elections have become so rigged by big money and clever incumbents that the process of self-government is threatened.
Sacramento politicians will now reject the voters' call for lower taxes and less spending and embrace the union-lobbyist-bureaucrat machine that is running California into the ground, crippling its economy and cheating residents.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Whoa-tabernac....we don’t need any more pigs at our trough up here.....besides, there wouldn’t be any room, trough is full. And did I mention, it’s a very small trough? In fact, 1/10th the size of yours.
A very good article by Newt. What he didn’t mention are the years and years that our immigration policies have selected against those most likely to strengthen the nation in favor of those who are more likely to become democrat voters.
Yeah, but you've got skiing, and Texas doesn't!
Oink, oink oink, coming your way.... ;-)
Oh, you fellows have got plenty of room. You've got room, for example, for the Boston States after we kick them out of the Union for making trouble, don't you?
And downstate New York? You could use a good, big city, couldn't you -- if we throw in some charming suburbs like Scarsdale and Chappaqua and Longg Gguyland?
We could also arrange to move Cornell, Berkeley, and Princeton to Canada, too, so you fellows would gain lots of I.Q. overnight!
We'd even throw in Georgetown, its university, and its sparklingly A-list inhabitants!
Sound like a deal? If you wanted to make it a better swap, you could trade us B.C. and Alberta and the Yukon, and their grumpy, gun-owning (illegally) inhabitants who don't think or vote right, and everyone "could" be happier. All that Peace River wheat and Athabaska tar and Lloydminster heavy crude could help balance off all those big New York wheeler-dealer profits we'd be sending you, and make it an even fairer deal!
So, think you could use a few million New England Yankees to help you fellows sharp your way to world power?
The laboratories of democracy have become cesspools of socialism.
LOL. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable plan and would work like a charm.
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.”
Thomas Jefferson
I always liked Newt. A few years ago, I was looking forward to the Newt-Obama foreign policy debate. But now I’d wish he’d get back in the game and do something or shut up and go away.
It was a joke ... many on the left (and others) here think that Canada and Europe are the land of milk & honey where everything is free or heavily subsidized. They never research the taxes, fees, etc. that fund all those “free” goodies or what would happen if we adopted a “cradle to grave” welfare state here. California is probably furthest down that road and the article shows the result.
Read and reread the last line of the article. The democratic party has always been the populist party.
Bump for later.
and this really is not about left nor right....
its strictly about money grabbers.....
as long as the "right" unions rule, then everyone else will be left out....
the thugs want to make it ideological...but it isn't.....just like the fat cat communist party members in the USSR always lived the rich and grand life, while the underlings toiled heavily, so is it today...the ordinary workers not in the "right" union get shafted, taxed, screwed over, ignored,penalized....while the "right" union members get the privileges....
Great quote, but I daresay the "lethargy" is the deliberate result of our educational system.
Read John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction, just published. Extraordinarily well-researched and written, backed-up by personal experience. A must-read for anyone seriously interested in dealing with our march to socialism.
Wasn't this the driving force behind the Tea Party movement before the MSM, especially FOX, branded it as 'anti-tax'?
It has always been the party of elitists dropping crumbs upon an indentured constituency. If you call that "populism," it's news to me.
That changed with Nixon's Southern Strategy to bring the southern populists into the GOP.
The early 19th Century South was slaves and masters.
The Democrat Party today is elitists and welfare cases.
Nixon was a corporate RINO just as were the Whigs.
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