Posted on 07/07/2009 7:59:34 AM PDT by george76
The overhead expenses include busing a huge number of kids for no good result. The illegals and kids of illegals absorb a vast majority of the special ed and overhead money. At the same time they are the underacievers..and it is not solely due to language.
Just as long as we cannot discuss the real problems in CA,,they will not be solved.
CA. just can’t cope with the money needed to pay for its too numerous to cite agencies, commissions, welfare and related healthcare programs and initiatives, unions domination, pensions etc. The EPA is nuts here too. It is harder and harder for ordinary folks to stay here.
Arable lands lie fallow because of eco nuts wanting to save some fish or insect.
Gas is highest in nation because of same eco nuts and a whole list of different additives/regulations.
Not building refineries or drilling billions barrels of gas off shore for the last 30 years or so,due to same eco nuts.
As the article points out-huge waste in education--expenditures that feel good but do not address the problems.
And these regulatory restraints that have busted CA are the SAME ones Waxnostril and Makey (spelling?) have written in the Cap and Tax bill to apply to the rest of us.
The majority of DC govt. are certifiable!
vaudine
What some want is for the federal courts to rewrite the California State Constitution using the 14th Amendment as justification.
Don’t think it can’t happen.....now with the “Wise Latina woman”.....one more Obama pick ought to do it.
This country is in shambes because of the ecowhacko lobby.
We have to do what Reagan would have done. Bankrupt them!!
No way I will ever vote for that socialist!!!
We must build a wall between California and America - - can’t have people fleeing their fouled nest only to take their destructive Democrat voting habits to nearby states.
When the good people of CA spend more time in line for Whacko Jacko and less for demanding good governance - as well as kicking out all the blood-sucking illegals, well, there you go...’nuff said...
Twenty-five percent of California's revenue comes from income taxes paid by the 144,000 richest taxpayers
If true...that statistic is just simply amazing!
That just .0037% of the California populace constitutes 25% of the state's revenue collection.
Bail out! Bail out now!
Absolutely right.
You should lock us all up and block internet access to our whackjob thoughts.
I’m sure you wouldn’t miss CA originated sites anyway, you know, like FR....
And who would want to go visit crazy places like the Reagan Library anyway?
2 cities people - 2 cities control the voting population of this state and sadly LA and SF are very very liberal. Some help is on the way though - redistricting for our legislature is coming soon, and they won’t be able to gerrymander it as badly this time. Perhaps you should take a nice long drive, end to end, north to south, in CA before you start insulting all of us.
How many of the 144,000 will soon be leaving ?
I do not think gerrymandering will be our friend with ACORN controlling the census in 2010. I think that will be the mortal blow to our Republic. Started with Wilson and will end with Obama.
The answer is to break CA up into 2 or 3 separate states. Until that happens, every conservative in CA is completely useless, politically. They should move to marginal states where their votes would actually do some good for the future of this country.
The news has set forth that businesses, its people having been migrating to neighboring states for years. Migrating to leave the oppressive taxes, confining regulations, social engineering.
The continuing problem is that these same people continue their liberal voting habits in their new locales. Witness Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington (Idaho starting), Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina.
AND!!! ...how could I forget Colorado.
Yeah, Jocko's death has created another boomtown.
We passed a law recently that the politicians don’t get to draw their own legislative lines.
Sadly, it does not apply to our congressional districts, but the state senate and assembly district lines will not be managed by the elected politicians.
There will probably still be some goofiness, but it should be a lot better. We will see how it all shakes out, but as I said - there is some hope for better days in Sacramento.
Including you, of course, who "recently returned to California from a self-imposed 7 year FL vacation from reality". Take a hike you simple schmuck. And learn to distinguish internet rants that result from passionate frustration, from genuine insults.
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