Posted on 07/03/2009 4:51:52 PM PDT by SmithL
California's such an easy target these days that even The Gray Lady is drawing a bead on the eighth-largest economy in the world.
The New York Times is running a piece Sunday in its magazine on our fair state, titled "On the coast of crazy." The teaser uses words like "cataclysm" and "fiasco." It doesn't stop there:
California always seems to produce more spectacle than anywhere else in the country, and that goes for its meltdowns too. Calamity is just part of the equation here, as if God gave California so much glamour and grandeur and great weather that he had to throw in some apocalyptic menace to provide a little balance. Earthquakes, say. Or Sacramento.
The reporter: Mark Leibovich of the Times' Washington bureau. He wrote 8,300 words. That's really long.
New York. That would be the state where Senate Republicans staged a coup in early June.
Ever since, there haven't been many signs that Republicans and Democrats, tied 31-31, are close to settling the bitter struggle over who controls the chamber.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
If you read the piece on Sunday, please note how many line it takes before Proposition 13 is mentioned as the root of the California budget crisis.
Every MSM article I have seen mentions this with in the first 3 paragraphs
So how does this meltdown affect their medicare? and everything else ?!?
A bunch of radical liberals writing about the disasters of a bunch of radical liberals!
The GOP is supposedly imploding yet its surging in NY a nd CA where the libs have their strongholds.
Get ready for two end-arounds on the California's historic property tax moderator:
1) A percentage services fee on property taxes. Progressive and socially selective.
2) An emergency services fee on home-owner's insurance. A flat fee that is socially indexed.
Both could see rapid expansion as escalating revenue is needed to support California's expanding, progressive programs and increasing public employment.
They’ve apparently retitled it, “Who Can Possibly Govern California?”
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