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They couuuuuuuuld only be short by 1.5 billion though. :lol:
Yeah but that's 3 billion over the next decade. Right now California is short by 3 billion for this year.
Might we actually be seeing the end of the Budget Deficit Era? Are organizations finding out that, as any competent third grader can tell you, you can't actually spend more money than you make ad infinitum
One of these days the feds just might learn this lesson too
Because liberals think that crippled pinhead FDR was the greatest man that ever lived, because he made the government huge, and gave half of Europe to the Russians.
There's a lot of truth in your statements.
There's a lot of truth in your statements.
Your detector seems to fail quite often. :2wave:
Especially the part about FDR being crippled.
It's probably a bit more than that, but certainly those programs were not of any help. The whole of our governments, State and Federal, have been running themselves improperly and inappropriately for some time. But there was only a vocal few speaking out about the real problems. The rest, on all sides, were sitting there bitching out of one side of their mouth with their hands stretched out for whatever they could get from the government. Suckling it, becoming dependent upon it. Republocrats sold out and their constituency happily followed. This is the America the lazy made, those whom didn't want to do anything for themselves. They authorized government growth, the allowed it to make program after program, spend more money, take more power. In the end...we sorta deserve this. This is what happens when we don't do our duty as freemen, when we don't act to keep this Republic.
Time to repeal prop 13. Well its been time since that garbage was passed, but now its really time.
Yeah what a great idea, let's force retired people out of their homes by jacking up their taxes which they can't pay on a fixed income.
It blew my mind when I saw those on a doc on MSNBC. To think they actually have those and fund them with taxpayers money is an outrage.
You know what would suck though, if a chick who shoots up contracts HIV (unknowingly) because she began sharing needles due to the abolishment of the local NEP. Then the next time she sells her ***** to a Jon without wrapping it up, he brings HIV home to his wife. The Jon eventually feels guilty, and tells her which causes the wife to go off and screw the milkman (without wrapping it up)...
I know i know, "if people did not do heroin and cheat on their spouses, this would never happen." If my aunt had balls she would be uncle Vickie.
NEP's are proven to reduce HIV spread in their area. Yes people still share needles from NEP's, but not all of 'em.
It is official. California is broke, and cannot meet its obligations. It's deficit is now 35% greater than the money it takes in.
California is also dumb. Why don't they just print up a bunch of counterfeit money to make ends meet? That's what the Federal government does.
Article is here.
They are great on social issues, in my opinion, for what it's worth, but they're acting like the Guinea Pig for Liberals and that's turned it into the first state to go down.
So what went wrong, and why are tens of thousands of Californians leaving the state with bachelor degrees and above, while tens of thousands enter without high-school diplomas?
Many answers have been offered—incompetent governance, judicial intrusions, the ballot propositions, trial lawyers, unions, dysfunctional and politically-correct schools, or illegal immigration. But look at it in some sense as the long hoped-for end of the nebulous “them / they.”
For years the open borders lobby accused “them” (whites? The establishment? Conservatives? etc.) of racism in wanting the border with Mexico closed, an end to state entitlements to illegal aliens (remember the Satanic Prop 187?), and deportations of thousands of aliens in state prisons (a cost nearing $1 billion per annum). But now the state legislature is largely controlled by those who in the past argued for de facto open borders and an expansion, not a curtailment, of entitlements for those without legal residence. So whom to blame? There is no “they” anymore. The outsiders are insiders and own the state—and its contradictions they once helped to ensure.
Ditto environmentalism. “They” (fill in the blanks: right-wing employers, CEOs, national companies, etc.) were the villains to be overcome in order to stop drilling off our shores, and to put ever more of our timber and recreational and scenic areas into no-use wilderness areas. We were not to build dams. No more canals. Put aside more farm land. No more nuclear plants. Forget coal. Tax gasoline and make it expensive to refine. It is fair to say now that the environmentalist agenda runs the state, and so there likewise is no more “them” to blame—and we must live with the results. I cannot begin to count in my own personal realm of knowledge the farmers who went broke, the high-tech engineers who moved to Nevada, the small business owners who shut down or moved out of state.
Ditto unions and big government. Ever more high pensions, ever more strict work rules, ever more administrators and high salaries, ever more rules against firing and accountability—and ever fewer to pay for it all. The evil “they” who used to try to moderate unions and state spending are gone—dead, moved away, retired, zilch. And so we the taxpayers work for the unionized government employee rather than vice versa.
So now those who want unchecked entitlements, open immigration, restrictions on resource development, unionized work forces and ever expanded government won—and won big. The problem is, again, the evil “they” who were to pay for all this in ever increased income and sales taxes, to take the blame of being racist, or sexist, or homophobic or greedy, are pretty much gone (cf. the last stand of the 1% of the state that pays the majority of state income taxes). There are no more “greedy” left to pay money or emotional penance, and the therapeutic mindset is now screaming to high heaven as it looks for its awful, but missing mean parent to make it all right.
Why can they not sell their houses?
This is quite ironic, as California is probably the richest state in the US.
Whether or not something is generally a net positive is not the same as whether or not something is economically efficient.
Also, you're drastically overstating the transferability of HIV through intercourse. It's incredibly difficult to get HIV.
Are you in the position to quantify the cost of increased spread of HIV? If not, than i do not see the point of your first comment, other than subjectiveness...
And yes, it was my point to create a hyperbole.
You might as well have written a Disney story if hyperbole is your argument.
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