Posted on 11/22/2008 6:16:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
California can go stimulate itself
***Speaker Bass wrote a column in the Sacramento Bee today calling for a “stimulus package” for California. Her solution? Give the state more federal welfare.***
How about a swift kinck in the a$$. Off your A$$ and on your feet! Out of the shade and into the heat!
Pick those Tomatoes! Grab those Mellons! Don’t like wetbacks? Take their jobs and send them home!
Complain and you will spend a night in the box!
regular, middle grade, premium.
get rid of your stupid-ass "summer blends", "Santa Ana Blends", "Northern California blends", "my dog doesn't crap on Tuesday blend", etc...
California is (it appears to me) is so unreasonable on this...
"Oh, but, we have winds and temp and rain and floods and fires".
All of which have nothing to do with "gas blends".
I live in Colorado Springs at 6k feet above sea level.
I go to Dallas down to 1K no problems.
I go to Pikes Peak summit at 14kft , no problem...
We do fine with 7-11, King Soopers, Western, Mom and Dad everyother pump. 3 blends. that's all you get..oh, deisel too.
What is the problem in California?
California is so screwed. They shouldn't get a dime from my tax money.
Oh wait....the emission mandates are required by the EPA. As requested by..who?..California..
Your legislation in California screwed the wonder Golden state.
Go bitch to Boxer and Feinstein...They're the ones who get the payoffs and reap the benefits...
I believe with Boxer being a cousin or inlaw to pantsuits, and Feinstein having a hnusband who makes more money off of military contracts then Vice President Chaney ever did...think about that....
Is this the answer? No..But it's a start...
Yeah i forgot that california epa emissions are even tougher than the rest of America. Another unnecessary cost bankrupting automakers.....government regulations.
The only way they should get ANY money is if they submit a budget to Congress to show exactly where all the money is going...especially Nancy Pelousy.
We need less government dumb a** not more. How about Arnold use some of his muscle and get the legislature to stop spending and to cut taxes. More taxes are not what we need,especially onerous and illegal sh** such as you propose. Stop spending, cut taxes, the economy will heal itself. Get the government out of business and out of our everyday lives. We learned this lesson about 200 years ago and now we have it staring us in the face again. Down with big government and all career politicians.
Arnie’s muscle? The poor thing doesn’t have a single functioning brain cell. Nobody thought anyone could do worse than Gray Davis. How much more wrong could they have been?
This assumes of course that Californians deserve better. Perhaps if they used caning, like Singapore, instead of fines.
Except they would overspend for that, too.
Seriously, having watched California screw up continually for 50 years now, it’s about time that they got their just desserts, instead of inflicting them on everybody else.
As a 5th generation So. Californian I say to Ms Bass, go straight to hell!
As I read the presentation, civil servants would judge actions to be in violation of civil codes and the accused could either proceed through the convention judicial system or could opt to pay a bail amount without admission of guilt. The concept reminded me a bit of our current, minor, traffic offense process expanded to cover a multitude of undefined offenses. A civil, criminal, operations tax if you will.
The concept is beyond novel. State government promoting criminal behavior as a revenue generating activity. I'm confident that loitering, public profanity, disturbing the peace and curfew violations would garner millions alone from the 14 to 29 demographic. Vehicle seizure and consequent public auction would be a rich revenue resource. Adding parental neglect to the charges, when appropriate, indexed by state income tax records, could possibly finance our K-12 public education system. The flexibility of the concept is unlimited.
Yep, pretty amazing. You'll note we haven't witnessed a defense of the "idea," as if it would remain confined to the DUI.
Who needs the Seventh and Eighth Amendments in that pesky Bill of Rights anyway?
I may have misunderstood the concept.
There's understanding, and then there's credulity.
Actually, the concept was not serious, it was tongue in cheek. Though something like that is done in Singapore, that is Singapore. They also beat spray pain vandals with canes there, and have a death penalty for illegal drug use.
California is something like $28B in the hole because they have absolutely no self control. And yet because they have the bloated and leftist 9th Circuit, the most overturned federal bench ever, many of their wild hairs are foisted on neighboring States.
So why not propose they directly punish themselves for their misbehavior. They could cane their lesser offenders just as well as putting them into jail. They could have a random tax, where anyone with money is chosen at random to pay a huge tax bill.
They have voted not to provide themselves with the fresh water they need. They have voted to use extra expensive automobile fuel produced at only a single refinery.
They are obviously crazy, so should get what they deserve.
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