[SCalGal]

Davis also has complained fiercely about the federal government's refusal to fully fund the state's cost of incarcerating illegal immigrants accused or convicted of crimes, a $400 million annual drain on the state's treasury.

Well, he better just go complain to the guy in the mirror. He's one of those pandering to illegals; what else did he expect?

The federal government has no business bailing out CA. Let CA's own government deal with the mess that they caused. If they were to get one single penny of bail out money from the Feds, they would just be encouraged to spend billions more.

[squibs]

The old saying, " you made your bed - sleep in it."
I had to laugh that the voters in Cali. kept the
commies in office. Let them keep the problems they
created and compounded.

[daviddennis]

The obvious solution is to reduce the cost of incarceration by cutting the increase he just gave to the prison guards union. Prison shouldn't cost as much to run as a decent motel.

We need to privatize the prisons, and of course Davis just promised to the guards' union that this wouldn't happen. This might be good old fashioned pork barrell politics, but it's lousy economics.

D

[snopercod]

The federal government has no business bailing out CA.

Neither do they have any constitutional authority to do so. (Not that has been an impediment in the past.)

Thank you for getting to the heart of the matter.