[Bloomberg] Caliphornia (STOCA1) Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... proposed $92.6 billion in spending for the year starting in July, an increase of about 7 percent, which will count on voters approving $7 billion of higher income and sales taxes in November.
The spending plan foresees a deficit of $9.2 billion. If the tax increase isn't passed, Brown's plan forecasts a $4.8 billion cut in support for elementary, high school and community-college education.
"The state of Caliphornia (STOCA1) is a very generous, compassionate political jurisdiction," Brown said. "When we have to cut spending, that spending is going to come from programs that are doing a lot of good. It's not nice. We don't like it. But the economy and tax statutes of Caliphornia make just so much money available."
Brown, a 73-year-old Democrat, wants to raise income taxes on individuals making at least $250,000 a year to 10.3 percent from 9.3 percent, and would boost sales levies to 7.75 percent from 7.25 percent.
The most-populous state cut aid last year to universities, shifted responsibility for prisoners to counties and dissolved local redevelopment agencies. Last month, Brown had to trigger $1 billion in additional cuts he built into the current year's budget after revenue fell below his estimates.
Brown was scheduled to release his budget Jan. 10, but was forced to unveil it today after it was inadvertently posted to his Finance Department's website early.
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I for one will vote no.
If I were a democrat I would vote no twice.
If I were a dead democrat I would vote no several times.
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Attn prospective Cal ex-pats: please don't try to turn your new state into the same miserable failure that California has become.
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They'll do it For the Children™.
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How much more clear does the invitation to leave California need to be for productive citizens and companies?
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Sure, Jer - just as soon as you cut moronic crap like the "Office of Problem Gambling", which the state has no business being involved with, let alone funding so lavishly.
In short: knock off the horse-shit and get to work. You wanted the job.
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Here's another news flash: First graders do NOT need computers in their classrooms. Give 'em paper, pencils, books and blackboards and they'll be just fine.
But Moonbeam thinks he has a gimmick this time. He's gonna tax the rich. He thinks all the poor people in this state will go along with that and he might be right.
Oh well, if it reduces the congestion on the freeway it'll all be good.
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Some California unionized cops rake in pensions equal to 90% of wages. And an LAPD sergeant makes over $100,000 per year, before overtime.
A few weeks ago, the UK"s Daily Express blew the lid on pension "dipping." Some civil servants will work 10 years in one position, and then do the same at another position or two, just to build up separate superannuation deals. Over here, I know people who take 4 pensions. And the "dipping" process is all rigged. It's time to drop the hammer on this racketeering.
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...state constitutional provisions limiting all state [and local if funded by or through the state] retirement payouts to no greater than what the average state taxpayer makes would 'put a lid' on it.
[ABC News] President B.O. "Ready to rule from Day One"
will continue his campaign to bypass Congressional opposition to his jobs agenda Thursday by announcing a new partnership aimed at helping a quarter of a million young people find summer jobs.
The initiative, part of Obama's "We Can't Wait" campaign, is intended to replace a youth jobs fund that would have been enacted had Congress passed the president's $447 billion jobs bill.
"America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the opportunity to earn the skills and a work ethic that come with a job. It's important for their future, and for America's. That's why I proposed a summer jobs program for youth in the American Jobs Act -- a plan that Congress failed to pass. America's youth can't wait for Congress to act. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment," Obama said in a written statement.
The new partnership between the federal government and the private sector commits to creating nearly 180,000 employment opportunities for low-income youth in the summer of 2012, with a goal of reaching 250,000 employment opportunities by the start of summer.
Republicans have pushed back against the announcement.
"Everyone agrees internships are a helpful tool for youth, particularly in this economy. Yet rather than taking credit for programs that companies already had in place, a more constructive use of the White House's time would be calling on Democratic leaders to act on the dozens of House-passed jobs bills still sitting idle in Democratic-run Senate," a front man for House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... , R-Ohio, said.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but summer is pretty much over here in the Northern Hemisphere.
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I can imagine the kind of jobs o'beano has in mind:
* Registration Card filler-outer.
* Proxy Voter for dead and imaginary democrats
* Voting Booth Thug (New Black Panthers only)
* Recorders of names off gravestones (aka Get Out The Vote)
* Occupy Wall Street Thug (Currently in recess)
* General Useful Idiot
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CrazyFool YES!. With so many unemployed a major expansion for TSA agents will be needed. Well, they are jobs. Come join us in the New World Peoples City. Transportaion will be provided. All who are interested please report to selected areas. No food or money is required. Should you have anything of value please contact a
TSA agent and those items will be safely stored for you. Free medical care, luxurious housing, employment, and at no cost. Join us now for real hope and change for your future.
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I'm still trying to figure what article of the Constitution covers summer jobs programs.
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I'm still trying to figure out what part of Article II authorizes the executive branch to do anything other than execute laws duly enacted by the legislature. That would fall under Article I, and summer jobs programs aren't in there either.
Leftards frequently cite the "provide for the general welfare" clause (Art. I, Sec. 8), as if "welfare" had the same informal, colloquial meaning 200+ years ago that it has now. Further, the grant of authority is to Congress, not the executive, to "provide for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States."
Same leftards scream about the clause counting slaves as 3/5 of a person for census and representation purposes (Art. I, Sec. 2) , despite that it is an undisputed historical fact that Yankee "liberals" were responsible for this, since counting blacks (mostly in the South) as whole persons would have diluted Northern influence in Congress.
The Constitution is shorter than the operating manual for my new vacuum cleaner (and written with greater clarity). Seems to me the extent of BHO's "constitutional law expertise" was to skim over it once and decide it was stupid.
Unpaid for labor expended. There are other words for that kind of exploitation work. Hey, it's OK as long as the Donks do it. They at least have a history of that sort of thing.
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"Unpaid for labor expended. . . . Hey, it's OK as long as the Donks do it. They at least have a history of that sort of thing."
Obviously, the party of slavery continues apace....
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Caesar actually simplified the Roman tax system, paid down the debt, brought order to fragmenting provinces and gave Roman rights to millions that were denied basic freedoms. Tyrant, oh yes he was. But he really did do it for the good of the Empire.
Bambi... he is working as hard as he can to bring a strong nation to a crumbling state and reduce the population to serfs. Complete polar opposite of Caesar.
[Dawn] President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... vowed Thursday the US military would maintain its "superiority" and bolster its presence in Asia despite planned cuts to the defense budget.
"So, yes, our military will be leaner, but the world must know, the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats," Obama told news hounds at the Pentagon.
Unveiling a revised military strategy designed to reflect a more austere era, Obama said the plan called for increasing the American presence in the Pacific while moving away from large ground wars against bully boys.
"We'll be strengthening our presence in the Asia Pacific, and budget reductions will not come at the expense of this critical region," said Obama, in an unusual appearance in the Pentagon's briefing room.
"As we look beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the end of long-term, nation-building with large military footprints, we'll be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces," Obama said.
The strategy review is supposed to shape Pentagon budget priorities as Obama's administration prepares for $487 billion in defense cuts over the next 10 years.
In a politically charged election year, White House officials stressed Obama was deeply involved in the strategy review and sought to portray the president as taking a responsible approach to defense spending informed by the advice of commanders.
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"...the most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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I don't think this is quite as dire as some other Rantburgers.
Back in 2000, the DOD budget was about $300B (all $ are current $). That was post Cold War against Communism, pre Long War against Islamism (at least before we realized we were in a Long War and, yes, some people still deny the latter).
In 2009 we were at about $650B with about $150B for Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011 it was about $740B.
The cuts amount to about $50B/yr against projected.
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Yes, but...
The Trunks should use the proposed personnel cuts to hammer the Donks who played up the rotation policies and its stress decrying that we didn't have enough boots to meet the mission in the 'stans and Iraq. Hammer'em for the political posturing, hammer'em for the hypocrisy, hammer'em for the duplicity.
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Frankly, US troops shouldn't be doing street policing in IED traps. Massive disproportionate retaliation is the only thing that ever works with slaves of allah. They kill 1, we kill 100. Yah, I have heard of Lidice. We kill for everything that's good and decent in the world.
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After the real cuts come and benefits are also cut for the military guess those employment numbers will be looking real good huh?
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DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > AMERICA NEEDS 62 MORE WARSHIPS TO COUNTER CHINA'S NAVY.
ARTIC = US needs to move in the direction of maintaining a minima 346-ship US Navy, not the present 284 size , nor a smaller potens 285-ship Navy under proposed USDOD cuts.
IIUC ARTIC = ANYTHING LESS THAN A 346-SHIP US NAVY MEANS THAT THE US MAY NOT BE ABLE IN TIME TO RESIST THE STEADY RISE OF CHINA'S PLAN, ETC.
TO ITS DETRIMENT.
SUB-IIUC, STRONGER CHINA PLA, WEAKER USDOD = THE US IN FUTURE WILL NEED A NEW FALLBACK PLAN TOWARDS HAWAII + US WEST COAST.
[Once again, US ISLAND-DESTROYING/SINKING
"EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" = HUGO CHAVEZ here].
In a scathing letter sent to Barack Obama this morning, Senator Marco Rubio said that under the Presidents first term in office, more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation.
Rubio went on to pledge that he would challenge any further increase in the debt ceiling, arguing that we [Congress] need to make it routine to actually spend no more than we take in. In the letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, the Florida Senator said that President Obamas upcoming request to increase the debt ceiling by a whopping $1.2 trillion will cause the nations public debt to surpass the $16 trillion mark.
I will oppose your request to continue borrowing and spending recklessly.
President Obama is expected to request the new borrowing power from Congress once the Senate and House return from their holiday recess.
If the President led the charge to reduce the countrys unsustainable debt in mid 2011 rather than punt the enterprise to a Super Committee, asserted Rubio, wed already be on a pathway toward economic growth and prosperity. "Unfortunately, the first three years of your presidency have been a profile in leadership failure."
The letter concludes: America deserves leaders who will stand front and center, level with the American people about our challenges and offer real solutions to solve them. Instead of simply asking for another debt ceiling increase, I urge you to come forward with a real plan to tackle our debt in 2012.
This is the latest salvo in the debt ceiling debate in Washington.
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Nice letter, and it needed to be said, and he said it in spades.'
Now let's see the good Senator sue the Prez over the recess appointment. the Repubs have been way too quiet on this; I am beginning to think they have even tinier balls than Bambi.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.
Gingrich told a town hall meeting at a senior center in Plymouth, N.H., that if the NAACP invites him to its annual convention this year, he'd go there and talk about "why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps."
He also said he'd pitch a new Social Security program aimed at helping young people, particularly African-American males, who he said get the smallest return on Social Security.
Gingrich routinely lambasts President Barack Obama as the "best food stamp president in American history." He also has spoken previously about welcoming an invitation from the NAACP to speak and has been critical of GOP candidates who have not accepted such an invitation.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had no immediate comment on Gingrich's remarks. His campaign spokesman, R.C. Hammond, said the former Georgia congressman has often said the GOP needs to be inclusive of all Americans.
"He has said since he became a presidential candidate that any Republican should always accept an invitation to speak to the NAACP on any topic," Hammond said. One thing I like about Gingrich, he has the balls to say true things like this and has the acumen to back it up. He would be a really excellent Secretary of State, IMHO.
Nooooo! Secretaries of State are supposed to be tactful. But as vice president, Mr. Gingrich would truly shine -- the opportunity to speak and advise, with no responsibility to ensure execution.
[Real Clear Politics] During his opening remarks to students at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, President B.O. got laughs when he told students that they inspire him.
"I want you to know you're the reason that I ran for this office in the first place. You remind me what we are still fighting for," Obama said to tepid cheers.
"You inspire me," Obama said to an audience that laughed at him.
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Here at Rantburg, idiocy dawns whenever Van Der Groot peeks over the horizon. This time he has generously shared the view of the standard-issue anti-American Canadian. Dear Readers, please feel free to explain to him exactly what it is that he has not yet grasped.
Axelrod has an interesting campaign strategy: he even has the Canadian MSM contributing...
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A one-sided hit piece, part of the Obama perpetual re-election campaign.
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ryuge my grandkids will love this. One side of the family thinks its funny. Another side gets real hostile. I understand they now have a law about breaking wind. I don't help matters. I have given the kids whoopie cushions over the years. Air bag and electronic.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Jerry 
[Dawn] President 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.
[Real Clear Politics] During his opening remarks to students at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, 
