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Cecille B. DeMille used to make epic movies about disasters and humanity and stuff.

He'd probably be honored to film the imminent&looming disaster this state has become..

How to Cook a Golden Goo$e . with solar&green energy subsidies!

1 posted on 07/30/2011 11:33:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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So this would put California’s “dream” of paying to “educate” Mexican Nationals in jeopardy?


2 posted on 07/30/2011 11:35:58 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Barry! Compromise this!!!)
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What BS. The “cuts” being discussed are cuts to the PLANNED INCREASES, not really cuts at all.


3 posted on 07/30/2011 11:37:00 AM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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California gets $79 billion a year from the federal government - nearly 40 percent of what it spends.

California, YOU made your bed and now YOU can lay in it!

If you give up your freedom for a check then you deserve the bed you have.

I'm sick of paying for your flaky save the d@mn (place ANY word here) programs that do nothing to save anything anyway less government bureaucracy.

4 posted on 07/30/2011 11:39:14 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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My advice to any remaining California business or entrepreneur:

Get out of Dodge now.

There is nothing more destructive than ravenous democrat party parasites.


5 posted on 07/30/2011 11:39:52 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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7 posted on 07/30/2011 11:42:58 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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The numbers are smaller, but what is true for Calif. is true for other states, as well.

They ALL get money from the feds.

In the case of Calif., more is paid in taxes BY Californians, than is returned as federal expenditures.


8 posted on 07/30/2011 11:44:59 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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It’s easy to wave your hands and cut discretionary spending, but when push comes to shove, do you cut the FBI? Do you cut elementary and secondary education, or food for pregnant women, or the National Institutes of Health?
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YES!!!!


9 posted on 07/30/2011 11:45:00 AM PDT by SUSSA
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From the article...California already has slashed spending...

It has?! There is so much duplication and waste that California has not begun to address. Many special districts still have millions of reserves representing over 10 years of operational costs. Most are a duplication and any competent private sector manager would look at those duplicate efforts and consolidate them.

There is simply not a competent or serious effort to trim California spending. Geez, some agencies are running TV ads touting their services.

11 posted on 07/30/2011 11:47:51 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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The story of CA is a favorite niece/nephew receiving a $10,000 monthly check from rich Uncle Sugar. Years go by. Uncle Sugar dies but has neglected to put niece/nephew in his will. No more money. Oh, S*IT.
13 posted on 07/30/2011 11:51:19 AM PDT by JPG (Yes she can!)
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“Debt deal could devastate California budget”

Doubt it, but if true, it’s a silver lining in the dark cloud.

[Disclaimer, I live in CA and our house recently became an employment-free zone.]


16 posted on 07/30/2011 11:57:18 AM PDT by Chaguito
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CA would go down in a funeral pyre if they lost that 40% for more than a year.

We would then be paying nothing more than union salaries and there would be no money for anything else.

If this happens, make certain you are not in one of the large urban areas...hell, you can't even call them cities anymore.

Megalopolis is probably a better word.

If you are south of the grapevine or west of I680 in the Bay Area, make it your PRIMARY goal to get out when TSHTF.

17 posted on 07/30/2011 12:01:37 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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NO.

The liberal policies over decades has killed CA.
It’s gone. Might as well just give it to Met-E-CO


18 posted on 07/30/2011 12:03:43 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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Don’t worry, thanks to the crooked redistricting plan, the Democrats will now have 2/3 majority in the California legislature - something they’ve never been able to achieve politically - which means they’ll have the requisite majority to raise taxes at will.


19 posted on 07/30/2011 12:04:41 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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With the federal government “cuts” do not mean less than last year.


21 posted on 07/30/2011 12:11:29 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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The basic outlines of the various plans would cut federal spending by roughly $1 trillion over 10 years.

Which in real life means an $8.5 trillion spending increase because of baseline budgeting.

23 posted on 07/30/2011 12:13:54 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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Cut the spending, idiots!


25 posted on 07/30/2011 12:17:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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The basic outlines of the various plans would cut federal spending by roughly $1 trillion over 10 years.

"Cut" merely means a reduction in the RATE OF INCREASE in federal spending. Spending will continue apace, albeit slightly slower, until the inevitable day of reckoning arrives.

26 posted on 07/30/2011 12:20:19 PM PDT by Starboard
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No, California taxes Citizens and sends the money to DC, and DC sends money back to the parasites of California

California can always re-open the offshore wells, pump some oil, and get more money and jobs


31 posted on 07/30/2011 12:38:46 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Nice title.

That's like saying "poor haircut could ruin Helen Thomas' looks."

33 posted on 07/30/2011 12:43:54 PM PDT by daler
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Debt deal could devastate California budget. .... California gets $79 billion a year from the federal government - nearly 40 percent of what it spends.

"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." ...... Margaret Thatcher

36 posted on 07/30/2011 12:45:56 PM PDT by Polybius
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