Posted on 07/13/2009 4:56:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
Whoever gets elected there needs to tackle the stranglehold the environmental lobby has on the state. More businesses have left the state because of environmental regulations than any other reason.
And yet, I keep hearing from places like NPR that its all the taxpayers fault because of the ballot initiatives.
Cursed Voters!
As long as I don’t have to send them one thin dime....They have earned their spectacular failure.
Followed a few sentences later by.... After all, there is
no one in history that has a better understanding of the aspects of business than Meg.
Little bit over the top there, I'd say.
The electorate doesn't give a damn about a pro-business climate. They simply want the state to live within it's means, freeze taxes and fees and send any surplus to them in the form of free services.
Followed a few sentences later by....
After all, there is no one in history that has a better understanding of the aspects of business than Meg.
Little bit over the top there, I'd say.
Poisner seems more like a true fiscal conservative to me. Whitman is McCain light.
Our ONLY problem is that our state is run by a bunch of Liberals! Where is RR when we need him most!
Throw the bums out!
And elect a fiscal conservative governor and a group of conservative legislators!
Easier said than done but the alternative is bankruptcy.
Cut spending now and stop taxing and regulating anything and everything productive to death. Thereby halting the exodus of wealth and talent from the state. Otherwise decline is going to continue likely leading to bankruptcy - which could be argued has already arrived.
California needs a government that understands what it can do and what it cannot afford to do! A good start would be giving pink slips to their hords of social workers and other non-value added state employees. The era of "feel-good" must come to an end!
Just this alone would straighten CA out. Do we have anyone running for Gov. that is touting these things? No? I thought not.
Arnold was voted in to get control over the budget.
Unfortunately, Arnold soon after his election went over to the dark side. I would like to say Arnold tried but failed, but I never saw in indication that he tried.
I understand that the Governor has little real power other than the veto and the bully pulpit. He should have made his case to the public and veto every new spending bill.
The financial problems of California can be solved, but not without pain. Too many people get too much public money, and these people are not going to go away without a fight.
The news media in this state is in the tank for the socialist Democrats. It is as predictable as parading the homeless at Thanksgiving, if a program is to be cut or scaled back they will go out and find the saddest case you can imagine and play it over and over again.
Those mean Republicn want to deny food to children or medicine to old people.
Never do they go out and “discover” waste of govenrment spending.
But just as you can deny the existance of gravity, you can deny the reality of economics, both have ways of getting your attention and usually not in a good way.
I know very little about California politics, except for years I have thought there was something in the water there. There was a joy of living that always attracted me to California. However, from a distance, in was always apparent to me that the environmental anarchists had taken over years ago. Bring in the resources from other states, so we did not have to build dams, power plants, etc. In other words, have all the benefits, but don’t build that dirty, noisy facility in my neighborhood.
Where will it end, I don’t know. Some like to blame the unions for all the problems, but the problems run much deeper than that. We can recognize a turn around when California start to build nuclear power plants and start to drill for oil and exploit their other natural resources.
And then there are the illegal immigrants. A question: Can one walk around anywhere in California and not hear Spanish in this land of the free and the home of the brave?
I agree. I also like the idea of building offshore co-generation desalination/electrical nuclear power plants that would not only generate all the electricity we would ever need but all the water we would ever need...imagine irrigating the entire desert for agriculture!
We could FEED THE WORLD!
Between the offshore oil drilling and water & electricity generated by nuclear energy; we could not only eliminate the state income tax and state deficit but probably issue an annual royalty check to every Californian like they do in AK.
"I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals"
Paul Newman as "Butch Cassidy"
California will end up like Nero’s Rome over taxed and no leadership.
Instead, the citizens will keep electing spendthrifts to the legislature because they are backed by the media and the unions, they will raise taxes, watch businesses and people flee and then hope that Obama will bail them out as being 'Way too big to fail'! Anybody care to bet against this scenario?
I wish we had someone strong enough to go against them and get CA back.
I like the offshore desalination and electrical nuclear power plants. sure would solve all our problems!
... imagine irrigating the entire desert for agriculture!
There are so many projects in California that have been delayed / stopped for ENVIRONMENTAL reasons that you couldn't even keep track. Mice, sand flies, fish and plants all need their EXTENSIVE space and thus your idea dies before it is born. California is not the birthplace of "Not In My Backyard" (NIMBY) but it is close to the grand exemplar!
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