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This is the full and complete version of the excellent article on California's out of control liberal government, which was severely edited down in order to fit into a tiny box in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle. (That op-ed piece became the basis of this thread.)

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[Eva]

This is one of those articles that you had better save to a separate folder because it will probably never be found on the internet after today, just like the Washington Post article that was posted on Friday. The WP article was written before the blackout and said that the Senate Democrats planned to continue to obstruct the energy bill for environmental concessions because the public had lost interest in energy issues.

[Eva]

I still say that we have to deny the Democratic Socialists the right to use the term, "liberal". "Liberal" is too touch feely and suggests a free will, which is totally absent in socialism. Let's call them what they are, socialists/fascists/communists.

[Rummyfan]

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[wayoverontheright]

California voters may recall Governor Gray Davis over the mess the state has fallen into, but, in fairness, they ought to consider the role of the Legislature’s liberal-dominated Democrat majority in helping drive the Golden State into a dysfunctional state.

Thank God, some sanity.

With the blame focused on Gray Davis, the Democratic Party's leftist, anti-business bent is getting a pass. Unfortunately, there is no provision for recalling all the leftists in the legislature.

I don't believe any one person can avoid "Califorclosure" in the near future with the current legislature in place.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Regrettably, the liberals who control the legislature have yet to acknowledge their spending addiction."


It is not an "addiction". It is competent, conscious, thought out decision made time after time after time with no regrets or concerns whatsoever.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The states problems are beyond liberalism. The problem is the very nature of the individuals actually holding office. Simply look.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

Since 1995, when statewide private and public employer-paid workers’ comp premiums amounted to $5.7 billion, an escalation of fabricated employee injuries, medical service-provider overcharges, and ambulance-chasing attorney practices have driven statewide employer premiums to $15 billion today. Experts suggest that increases to $20 billion can be expected within the next six months. In a recent Assembly Insurance Committee hearing, where five major workers’ compensation reform measures were pending, even the state’s Democrat Insurance Commissioner testified to the workers’ compensation system’s imminent collapse if legislative reform was not quickly forthcoming...

Within the hour, the committee’s liberal majority killed all five of the measures that would have assisted the state’s public and private employers, as well as millions of their employees, to avoid the coming effects of this crisis.

All I can say is... those damn leftist, socialist, anti-business, anti free enterprize BASTARDS.

[Jonathon Spectre]

But why then single out the sale of sodas to ban (students who want a soda may continue to bring them on campus) while allowing other food items with far greater fat and sugar content to be served or sold on campus?

Dude, check the fat and sugar content of the SCHOOL LUNCH. You'll faint, and then you'll never, EVER let your kid eat cafeteria food ever again. It's like lard on a tray.

[marsh2]

The liberals fail to grasp that the essence of government is providing for the needs of the general public, not the individual or individual class. Government provides police and fire service for everyone. It provides roads, water, sewer for all. It protects the general public health from epidemics, polluted drinking water, bioterrorism. It provides free public elementary schools.

Unless you are a ward of the Court, the government is not supposed to provide individuals with a gynecologist, a dentist, a psychiatrist, a job, a free college education, prescription drugs, free rent, groceries, etc. It is not supposed to provide any special income, age, race or other class with these services or subsidies for these services.

When the taxes taken from the general public flow to individual benefit, that is not a tax, it is a transference of wealth. As stated so nicely by Justice Roberts in U.S. v. Butler(1936):

"...A tax, in the general understanding of the term, and as used in the Constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another..."

[Eva]

Bump for a second look at this excellent article.

[Eva]

I'm going to bump this two more times to see if I can get any response for this article

[Eva]

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