Just like a cancer cell...they gobble up everything around without regard for the host until they kill the host therefore killing themselves.
Posted on 01/01/2010 3:37:58 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
Arnold Schwarzenegger begins his final year as governor of California in 2010. It's another year that begins with another multibillion-dollar state budget deficit. Schwarzenegger is looking to the federal government for help. John Myers of member station KQED has more.
JOHN MYERS: At an event just a few miles from the state capital in Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked whether he had any New Year's resolutions in mind.
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State Senator DARRELL STEINBERG (Democrat, California): We give billions of dollars in business tax credits and nobody really knows whether or not they're really creating jobs, and I'm a big skeptic.
MYERS: While Governor Schwarzenegger's new budget plan is not yet public, it's reported he will ask for as much as $8 billion in help from the feds. If the state doesn't get it, Schwarzenegger will reportedly call for the total elimination of welfare and in-home health care programs. Those kinds of cuts could be devastating, and they might only fuel the national perception that California is now less the promised land and more the comic punch line.
For NPR News, I'm John Myers in Sacramento.
He did not try hard enough. He should have just vetoed everything. He should not have repudiated the conservatives. He tried to play the Dems’ game, and ended up making the problem worse.
Just like a cancer cell...they gobble up everything around without regard for the host until they kill the host therefore killing themselves.
I laughed so hard reading this that I almost fell out of my chair. Yeah when half the state is on welfare you think you can eliminate it? Hahahahahahaha!!! That will happen when pigs fly out of my butt.
Yep, so many states get dragged down by a handful of concentrated Democrat parasite nests (”cities”) within their borders that you wish there was some way to simply eradicate them, or separate them from civilized society somehow..
On a positive note, the parasite nests are much more likely to be targets of Islamic terrorist attacks than the outlying civilized areas. The irony is rich. Not that I want that to happen or anything. Just saying..
So do I! It is not the responsiblity of the other 49 states to bail out California when most are already having their own budget woes.It is long past time to quit spending money you don’t have(do you hear that DC?) and how ever it can be done as fast as possible is the way it needs to be done.
Are you kidding? That assclown Schwarzenegger fell for the "global warming" scam, hook line and sinker. He STILL promotes all that costly "green" crap. Arnold is utterly clueless and apparently thinks money grows on trees. No - - the mess in California is nearly as much Arnold's fault as the scumbags' fault. And in the end, of course, its the voters' fault.
Nearly all of the billions of dollars in cuts the administration has proposed would affect programs for poor Californians...
“Government doesn’t provide services to rich people,” Mike Genest, the state’s finance director, said on a conference call with reporters on Friday. “It doesn’t even really provide services to the middle class.” He added: “You have to cut where the money is.”
“You have to cut where the money is.”
I love it they finally figured it out!!!!!
It's why I find it so frustrating that the people who live in California full time can't seem to do anything about the deadbeats, bums, and parasites who apparently control the politics. Plus, I suspect that there are way too many regular, working, taxpaying Americans (with families even!) who inexplicably aid and abet the deadbeats, bums, and parasites in electing the very Democrat scumbags who are killing the state. It's downright sadomasochistic! They may as well tape 'kick me' signs to their own backs.
“total elimination of welfare” — O, My God. Wouldn’t that be wonderful. Send those illegal aliens packing.
The Navy makes sure that service members who have family members with needs stay in CA. There is more there to help them. I have no problem with that..they deserve it, but we are also giving the same benefits to an increasing number of immigrants..legal and illegal that have done nothing to deserve the privilege.
CA is broke and will stay broke..until there is a drastic change.
Half-sacrasm.
As a California State worker with the department of highways, I had very high hopes when we had a proposition on the ballot to require unions to get our permission before using our dues for politics. The Nurses union and Teachers union and CSEA (now absorbed by SEIU) killed that proposition. Somebody needs to get that proposition put back on the ballot. If they can constantly work toward homosexual marriage, we need to constantly work to deprive the employee unions of the flood of money going to democratic politicians.
It makes me furious that I am forced to give my union dues to Democrats for re-election.
People aren’t very wise or knowlegable. I tis easier to blame the Governor for California’s socialist doom, just like it is easier to blame an NFL quarterback. Fans have no clue the offensive line is beat up and the defense is porous, so they blame the quarterback for every loss.
Well, Arnold did try to affect change and cut spending, and he was cut off at the knees. Yes, he folded like a cheap suit but that doesn’t change the fact of why this state is becoming a socialist cesspool.
The idiot voters are to blame, bar none. As long as the idiot voters support a flood of socialist candidates who promise giving away everything to everybody, California will never change. Their is no human on the face of the earth who could serve as governor of California and reduce spending and taxes and take on the environmental nazis and other business-destroying wackos in this state.
Certainly not without using a very large bomb.
Arnold did better than I expected him to - he tried.
What we need to do is improve the business climate. That means getting rid of the environmental restrictions, the HIGH minimum wage, the HIGH worker's comp (lawyer issues there), the HIGH taxes.... Just DEREGULATE and get out of our way.
It just gets worse, (SEIU)
Judge rules some state furloughs illegal
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, January 1, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally by placing tens of thousands of state employees on unpaid furloughs three days a month, an Alameda County judge said Thursday in a ruling that could require the financially reeling state to cough up months of back pay.
The lawsuit, filed by Service Employees International Union Local 1000, does not apply to all furloughed workers, only to those whose agencies receive all or nearly all their money from federal funds or specially generated state revenue sources - for example, Caltrans, the DMV, the Employment Development Department and the state lottery.
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