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Posted on 02/21/2003 8:57:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
IN the middle of December, California had a huge budget crisis. It forced Gov. Gray Davis to propose $10 billion in cuts halfway through the budget year, and to ask the Legislature to meet in a special session so the cuts could be enacted promptly.
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The basis for this oft repeated accusation has never been made clear to me. Which is it?:
1) No politician, including Repulicans, would be politcally foolish enough to make the kind of cuts necessary to balance the budget or,
2) The kind of cuts required are not constitutionally possible and would face immediate court challanges rendering them ineffective within the time frame necessary to provide relief or,
3) The legislature, clogged with Democratic idealogues, would never pass legislation that didn't include tax increases or,
4) All of the above.
Has anyone on this forum seen a clear analysis of the alternatives or care to pass along some personal insight?
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Hahahaaa, classic!
The Republicans are "delusional", but Democrats are merely "unwilling".
These scumbag liberals at the SJ Mercury News can drop dead. The Democrats got California into its pathetic mess with their irresponsible spending spree (election-buying, especially with the help of the education mafia) and the Republicans rightly reject the idea that their constituents, hard-working traditional American families, should be punished with more taxes.
Any Republican who agrees to even one more dime in new taxes is a traitor and a punk who should be recalled immediately. Fortunately, it looks like this crop of Republicans has the decency and integrity and backbone to do the right thing - - reject more Democrat taxes.
The demRats are intoxicated by power and still can;t see where they went wrong.
The Merc is a riddle unto itself until you look at who owns and operates it.
I post a lot of stuff from there and the Sac Bee so folks get a good dose of left coast rhetoric and leftist propaganda.. plus it's good training for newbies and a chance to provide some education for the many lurkers.
Damn, who knows what this summer and fall hold? But we know what will be printed and posted in certain "newsrooms".
The Merc's editorial said that Republicans are "delusional" for opposing more tax hikes and said that Democrats are "unwilling to recognize" that the well has run dry. This choice of words by the scumbags at the Merc speaks volumes.
In a sane world, this editorial would have called Democrats "delusional" for thinking that they could continue to spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, and added that Republicans are "unwilling" to raise taxes. That the Merc's editors chose to write their editorial the way they did tells me that they are nothing but cowardly pissants - - slobbering lackeys for the state's Democrat Party.
I agree with you that postings from the Merc and other leftist fishwrappers are instructive. These publications are as responsible as anybody for California's budget mess. Let's just pray that the Republicans hold tight and NEVER cave on new taxes. And I believe that they will stay united. I think they will show that they are principled and honorable, and they will continue to do the right thing for their constituents. It is finally the parasites' turn to feel the pain.
Regards,
LH
(Caliban diddle in Californistan)
Great comments!
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