Posted on 12/19/2018 10:48:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown helped make his party even more powerful in California during the last eight years and now, less than a month before leaving office, he predicts that dominance will make it difficult for his successor to control Democrats’ hunger for spending and regulations.
The leader of the most populous state has kept Democratic lawmakers in check by limiting spending on social programs in favor of saving it to protect against a future economic downtown. He sometimes butted heads with legislative leaders, warning spending too much now could hurt taxpayers or require budget cuts later.
Democrats hold all statewide offices and expanded their supermajority in the Legislature after last month’s election, allowing them to approve tax hikes and virtually any law without Republican support.
“I’d say we’re in for contentious times and for too many rules, too many constricting mandates and probably too much spending,” Brown told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. …
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He’s bragging.
I agree. Compared to the crowd about to take over California with a supermajority, Brown is going to look like a conservative.
Economic downtown? Auto-complete strikes again?
He paved the way, though.
Brown knows the state is a financial house of cards that is going to collapse and probably soon. He’s paving the way to inoculate himself by saying it was the crazy spending of the people who came after him that caused it. There is no way I believe Jerry Brown is against spending, just sharing the blame for the inevitable consequences.
To borrow from George Carlin, that seems near-fetched. Thanks Olog-hai.
Water is wet and the sun is hot and bright.
Listen, I’m here on the ground behind enemy lines. Believe it or not he was a serious brake on the lunatics in the Legislature
Gave California back to Mexico.
goodbye to money
Over $427 billion and counting.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
California: the winner!
And water is wet. Film at 11.
He’s delusional and thinks he’ll run as a moderate rat.
For Brown to claim such stuff. Oh he vetoed the state gas tax uncrease and sanctuary state ase ? What was Cox running on ?
No kidding.
Bullet Train??
Exactly
Gee ... ya think?
I think what he’s saying is, “The things I spent money on where necessary and correct. But anything else you spend money on is excessive and unnecessary.” Also, probably, “I was good for California and liberalism and you will be bad for it.” There are no modest, unassuming men (persons, Xe, womyn) on the Left.
And the sun is likely to appear in the eastern sky in the morning.
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