Posted on 05/15/2012 6:29:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Regardless of who implemented the coddling in California, it is being done more so in California than in any other state.
Arizona recognizes the drain on their economy. They are taking illegal immigration on at the state and local levels. Also being challenged by the federal government, but Arizona is fighting it.
California is offering illegal immigrant breaks on tuition. State financed tuition aid for illegals. California bans the use of E-Verify. California bans police from impounding vehicles of unlicensed drivers.
Arizona has taken actions that have made it known that illegal immigrants are not welcome in Arizona. California has taken actions that indicate that it is a sanctuary state.
And this is costing Californians a lot of money that it doesn’t have.
Just like Greece, they are getting exactly what they voted for.
"California bans police from impounding vehicles of unlicensed drivers."
The City of LA, read Mayor Tony Villar (Antonio Villaraigosa) told his PC pandering, political appointee LAPD Chief to defy state law which mandates a 30 day impound.
Yes, the turds in Sacramento are busy trying to pass legislation that protects this lawbreaking action. But again, they are breaking the law and the city attorneys have told them so.
They're getting ready for the inevitable lawsuits.
RE: I am glad Michigan is turning around.
And when is the turnaround from one of Michigan’s largest city -— Detroit, going to occur?
When it is annexed by Toronto.
You mean Windsor.
I think that may be a long ways off.
On illegal immigration, I would invite you to compare and contrast Arizona and California. Certainly the Fed can be blamed for not protecting CA from the "invasion" of illegal immigrants. On that we agree.
But much of CA in LA, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, San Fran, San Jose, Oakland, etc. has been enthusiastically complicit in accepting the falter of unenforced immigration laws. Bank of America started its special banking programs for illegal immigrants in CA. Elected legislators applauded the humanity, as I recall, and the state is still controlled solidly by democrats. None in CA that I am aware of have been voted out primarily because of their stance on illegal immigration.
You mean Windsor.
Windsor, Toronto, Calgary.... whatever.
(yikes!)
Leave it to the National Review to write an article on California and not once mention the millions of illegal aliens who are an immense burden on California taxpayers.
NR is a pathetic shadow of what it once was.
Did you not read what I said about California’s initial efforts to repel the invasion, with NO SUPPORT from the federal government or the rest of America?
Our President called us racists more than once. Federal judges threw out every duly enacted ballot measure.
You. All. Yawned.
Americans in California were so quickly overwhelmed by foreign nationals that there is now no longer any chance of reasserting American sovereignty through the ballot box.
Arizona still has that option, and the only reason they are acting is they see what happened to California. It lit a fire under them — and rightly so.
California has been invaded, occupied and annexed... stop blaming the victims and acknowledge that this is your fault, whatever state you live in.
-—Growth is of course a main goal, and its achievement is to be welcomed, but we must not use hypothetical future growth as an excuse to put off difficult taxing and spending decisions in the present.——
Who’s NR talking to? Themselves? The Beltway RINOs?
There isn’t a real conservative who doesn’t want to see govt spending slashed by 50%.
“While California is a beautiful State and there are many good people living there, I can’t help but think, good riddance.”
It won’t be “good riddance”. The problems won’t be confined to California, the effects will affect you as well.
Actually, we castigated the court that threw our your Proposition 186, same as we do when they try to undermine Voter ID and Immigration enforcement. But the courts are beyond our reach, just as they are beyond yours.
And that doesn’t change the fact that certain urban areas in the PDRK and around the country enthusiastically supported illegal aliens and became “sanctuary cities.” However, we failed to to pressure our leaders to cut off all State and Federal monies from these lawless cities.
No kidding : )
Last month he Dems in the Maryland assembly failed to agree (with each other) on yet another wave of tax increases last month so the leaders met behind closed doors and crafted another tax-us deal under another special tax session..
They got back together in a special session for the formality of the vote : they are raising income taxes on anyone making over 100K, the new rich. Apparently the two or three millionaires tax increases resulted in little new revenue.
Hard to believe since Dem gov O Malley is an Obama troll and Obama says tax increases on ‘the rich’ is all we need to pay for everything.
Idiot voters!
” The problems wont be confined to California, the effects will affect you as well.”
Yep
” They got back together in a special session for the formality of the vote : they are raising income taxes on anyone making over 100K, the new rich”
That is just regular middle class in Montgomery County..nothing more. We knew this was coming all along...next Obama does it on a national scale.
The Left is still stuck on the idea that since Bill Clinton raised taxes and still had a pretty good economy for a while (although there were some bubbles that eventually popped), but the spending in Clinton's days is small potatoes compared to now.
What if you owed $50K in credit card debt, and you started to pay it off by paying $500 a month, but your family kept spending 2 or 3 times that much? The wrong people are in charge, and that includes both parties.
It would take more than higher or lower taxes to make a significant difference in the long run, and printing money will not be sufficient at some point.
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