Stand by for the bail out that everyone’s busy denying.
And not a single Republican lawmaker with enough guts to seize the opportunity to point out the obvious. Sitting there on the tee, waiting to be hammered out of the park, a perfect, real world illustration of the end results of liberal policies, but no Republicans willing to say a word.
Any California ‘official’ who is ‘stunned’ by this report needs to be run out of office on a rail, preferably coated in tar and feathers.
Lots wife STUNNED by Salt.
re: The UCLA Anderson Forecast unit said earlier this week that the state economy would grow at more normal levels by the beginning of 2011
Based on what? Nothing they’re talking about doing stands a snowball’s chance in hell of improving the situation. They just sail along blissfully passing all sorts of new spending measures and hoping to raise taxes enough to fund the measures.
My solution would be to have every budget presenter give me a budget without any specified amounts or dollar figures. Just percentages. I have them give me a list of what they need to do, would like to do and lastly what they would do if money was available. Each item showing a percentage of the money they receive that will be used for that item. Then I would figure out what percentage of the total income each agency was entitled to and they could spend that money based on the percentages they budgeted. There would never be another dollar spent that hadn’t been already collected. And I’d let them keep and apply to the next budget year any funds they managed to save during the current year. As it is, most governments just take back any money not spent so it profits an agency nothing to try to cut back.
I know it’s not as simple as it sounds, but there’s simply GOT to be a way to get control of what governments and authorities and boards and tax districts, etc. are spending.
Yup. They'll let other stressed Americans pay for their glamorous life style...I hope you're ready...I ain't paying crap...I'm done with all this BS!!