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California to Begin Layoffs Proceedings Today
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| 2/17/09
| Judy Lin
Posted on 02/17/2009 6:29:45 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: DownInFlames
True. Our production was so great that for years we could afford the barnacles attaching themselves to our production machine. Now, the barnacles have become convinced they're the reason the boat floats.
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posted on
02/17/2009 6:59:05 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Ev Reeman
I am a drunken sailor. I never spent that much.
3/M
To: marshmallow
Can we like, triple or quadruple this amount? PLEASE!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:04:15 AM PST
by
US_MilitaryRules
("We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots)
To: Richard Kimball
California will continue to be a 100 billion dollar corporation based on tax revenus and fee - they tax everything and get fees for everything. It, will continue and not sink.
The issue is the pensions they failed to fund and steal from the taxpayer, the special interest groups demanding to be paid and the doubling of government in the last administration.
So a few projects have to be moved back but the reality is, they have 100 billion to play with, not the additional 40 billion in new taxes they want.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:16:31 AM PST
by
edcoil
(Hey, I found my round-tuit, guess I'll go to work now.)
To: marshmallow
"We are dealing with a catastrophe of unbelievable proportions" Sadly that is exactly what it is going to take to force the state to live within it's means.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:18:52 AM PST
by
TheDane
To: ThirdMate
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:19:00 AM PST
by
AuntB
(The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
To: edcoil
I hope you’re correct. I’ve dealt with Government agencies for the last thirty years, and the goldfish bowl looks very different from the inside than the outside. Funding priorities are so weird in governmental entities, you have to live it to believe it.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:23:14 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Richard Kimball
My stepfather worked for a federal office supply warehouse. $5 for a Bic pen. I kid you not. Tell me why the deficit is like it is. Someone is skimming off the top, side and bottom.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:28:34 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristopherson)
To: ThirdMate
Our state legilature is an insult to drunken sailors everywhere! In fact our state legislature is an insult to village idiots everywhere too! The state legislature makes village idiots look like candidates for MENSA by comparison!
To: marshmallow
Fire citizens and give perks to illegals. That makes no sense.
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:42:34 AM PST
by
bgill
To: ThirdMate
That’s because you don’t make that much! I know, I was in the Marine Corps!
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posted on
02/17/2009 9:59:16 AM PST
by
ExTxMarine
(For whatsoe'ver their sufferings were before; that change they covet makes them suffer more. -Dryden)
To: marshmallow
"We are dealing with a catastrophe of unbelievable proportions," said state Sen. Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat . . .Translation: We can't spend more money.
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posted on
02/17/2009 4:31:43 PM PST
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: Ev Reeman
Like you, the rest of us that have a brain “get it”. The RATS don’t and don’t want to. It’s all about power. Nothing else.
Cheers,
SZ
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posted on
02/17/2009 7:22:35 PM PST
by
SZonian
(I'm a Canal Zone brat)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
LOL. OK, that was damn funny!
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