Comments on: NYT Upbraids Irresponsible CA Voters

By: pdsand

pdsand — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:35:38 +0000

“But voters — roughly 10 percent of those registered”

Is that legally registered voters, or the ACORN registered voters list?

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:55:44 +0000

You are a card, Colonel!!

By: ajmalkov

ajmalkov — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:36:14 +0000

Love the way the story laments the ‘fact’ that prisoners will have to be paroled as a result of the failure to raise taxes. Nope. It would not be necessary to parole a single prisoner if the California prison guards’ union would just agree to a pay cut — they are the most powerful union in America and their starting salary is like 80 grand. And because they are unionized, their work rules are nice and onerous (i.e., they don’t have to do any). This is why it costs $43,000 to house a single inmate for a year. Bust up the prison guards’ union and California can keep all its inmates in jail as long as necessary. Have you ever been to San Quentin? That $43,000 sure as hell isn’t going into the facility.

By: canary

canary — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:13:20 +0000

First GM. Now California.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:18:06 +0000

‘Hey, everybody – let’s vote ourselves a tax increase! Yahoo!’ Not so much…

By: proreason

proreason — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:43:13 +0000

Rush had a great point about CA on his show today.

OLenin is going to bail California out, and federal taxes are going to go up because of it. That will expand federal power and buy him more votes in that huge state.

The whole country will be paying for the loons in California for decades.

You can take that to the bank that your money won’t be going to for much longer.

By: proreason

proreason — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:26:53 +0000

If they adjusted the pension benefits for state employees with less than 5 years service, it would save billions.

I’m beginning to think that gold-plated civil service benefits are a much bigger problem than previously thought. Private businesses no longer give defined benefits pensions.

Promises made to people approaching retirement shouldn’t be rescinded, but employees early in their careers shouldn’t be enriching themselves with impossible-to-fire jobs with gold-plate, inflation-protected pensions that no private business can afford to give.

By: Jason Gillman

Jason Gillman — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:08:19 +0000

I wonder how much could be saved by printing state documents in English only? Or by removing general welfare benefits? Or licensing new nuclear power plants? Or privatizing the prisons? Or leasing the highways to private concerns? Or leasing the medians of some to business? Or reducing regulations?

The amounts are quite staggering, and only a year’s worth.. No one is willing to admit it, but I do believe we are witnessing the complete collapse of the dollar.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:54:33 +0000

Aye, Aye. Well the crazy accounting scheme didn’t work, so we’re fresh out of ideas. I wish there was something ELSE besides raising taxes and borrowing that we could to in order to balance our state budget. DANGIT it’s just so frustrating the lack of fresh ideas.

By: Jason Gillman

Jason Gillman — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:49:42 +0000

Who will undoubtedly beg off for more Fed dollars to be printed for the balancing of the CA checkbook.

I truly hope that parents who “get it” are using these crisis’ to demonstrate what goes horribly, HORRIBLY wrong when liberalism is in (and out of) control.

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:29:17 +0000

There is an Acorn office in San Jose … I wonder what other “social programs” they operate off of other monikers …

By: PatriotOne

PatriotOne — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:31:58 +0000

The “Terminator” Governorator has terminated himself….. He rode into Sacramento on the rails of conservatism ~~ sadly he was derailed by the pillow-talk of his Kennedyesque wife and her ilk…..

Today, thanks to a “smattering” of voters [in this instance, a "smattering" is defined as a 60% majority, also defined as a 'landslide'] the “Terminator” has been exposed as nothing more than a liberal/socialist with an accent!!!

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:22:37 +0000

Sounds like these weren’t exactly measures to ‘keep the state solvent’ so much as put a band-aid on the budget until it’s somebody else’s problem.

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:08:38 +0000

“service learning ”

Haven’t heard the term, but I’l bet it’s spelled a c o r n.

By: Enthalpy

Enthalpy — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:28:08 +0000

Dangerous and U NO HOO are right, of course. Doing what is right trumps blame. It should be interesting just to see how they justify their predicament, that’s all.

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:05:55 +0000

I’ll take the blame if someone, anyone, will do the correct thing.