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2009-11-13 Economy

Still Ducking Hard Choices in California

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-11-13 11:46|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Politically, the governor may prefer shifting responsibility for hard decisions to the Legislature

Why? Does Arnold actually think he will ever get elected again for anythinganywhere?

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-11-13 13:10|| 2009-11-13 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The graphic is appropriate.

I've said it before, I truly believe we'd be better off if we dissolved the legislature altogether. Then the governor could propose a budget and let the people vote on it. You think we're too ignorant to vote on a budget? I think that's what the legislators think but then, they're all crooked.

The governor could propose state laws and let the people vote on them.

The people could also put their own proposals on the ballot the way we already do. That, BTW, is the only way we ever get any decent laws passed in this state.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-11-13 14:34|| 2009-11-13 14:34|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it was William Buckley who once said that he'd rather be governed by the first 3,000 people listed in the Boston phonebook than by the last 3,000 Harvard grads.

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-13 15:03|| 2009-11-13 15:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Ostriches. Keep trying to run away from the problem or put your heads in the sand hoing it goes away. Guess what - you rang up the bill and it will be paid one way or another.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-11-13 15:36|| 2009-11-13 15:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I am so pissed at the "governing classes" here in California that have traqded fiscal sanity for buying votes and importing votes and ruining a lifetime of financial effort. I have live here 35 years, paid taxes, bought a home and paid for it, and suffered through increasingly liberal governance, until we have reach a point where they really have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. I'm leaving, and taking the massive loss in value for my home to do so.
I have no confidence that anything can be done to save the place. The tipping point has been reached. More people get from the state than give to it, and all that faces me in the future is more and more public theft from my wallet to give others, The country ins't far behind but a few places will likely be the last to slip under the waves. I'm going there to finish out my days.
My grandchildren will be speaking chinese or spanish and wondering how I let this happen...
and I hope they learn the hard lessons that, diversity, loss of unifying culture, abandonment of actual history and "tolerance" teach....

Posted by NoMoreBS">NoMoreBS 2009-11-13 16:01|| 2009-11-13 16:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Smart guy William F Buckley.

Posted by phil_b 2009-11-13 18:05|| 2009-11-13 18:05|| Front Page Top

#7 "I hope they learn the hard lessons that, diversity, loss of unifying culture, abandonment of actual history and "tolerance" teach"

-as I often say sarcastically on this blog and few others..."we are Rome, 400 AD"

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-11-13 20:00|| 2009-11-13 20:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope you find contentment in your new home, NoMoreBS. In the meantime, come to the O Club and I'll buy you a drink.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-13 20:24|| 2009-11-13 20:24|| Front Page Top

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