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2010-02-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-02-08 10:38|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Anyone running a pool on who's going to go bust first - California or Greece?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-08 11:15|| 2010-02-08 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 "Did you know that California has twice the population of New York, but five times as many welfare cases? Thirty-two percent of all welfare caseloads in America are here in California."
LA is also home to the largest homeless population, and everyone knows drug-addicted people can't possibly work. I know, let's legalize them! (sarc)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already proposed making cuts to CalWORKs that include lowering grant levels and eliminating aid to legal, non-citizen immigrants who have lived in the country for less than five years.

I take it these legal non-citizen immigrants on the dole are refugees sent and vetted by the UN. WFP donations are down so expect more to arrive soon. And again, Islamists don't allow women to work, even in aid distribution.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-02-08 13:57|| 2010-02-08 13:57|| Front Page Top

#3 "The fact is, California is the welfare state."

It is also a Democratic state. As of May 2009, the breakout of registered voters was 45% Democrats, 35% Republican, and 20% Independent.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-02-08 16:58|| 2010-02-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The ugly little secret is that California has no intention or ability to stop becoming even more of a welfare state, collectively, as the default of the state government and concurrent city and county defaults will force the Obambi administration to prop up the state with other states money. Make no mistake, California is going banmkrupt, perhaps within a year or two, and when it does, what do you think this administration is going to do?
Rather that leave us to our fate (and God knows I'm trying to get out of here before it happens, Uncle Sam will pick up the tab.
Want proof?
The State Senate, in a state with an 81 billion dollar revenue stream this year and 102 billion in expenditures, teh State Senate PASSED a statewide universal health care bill that has an annual cost of $200 billion! Can you possibly need more proof of how insane the Democrats in this state are?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-02-08 19:11|| 2010-02-08 19:11|| Front Page Top

#5 See also PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > ITS NOW MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PAY OFF THE US NATIONAL DEBT.

IIUC the USG must change the Federal Reserve system + stop self-destructive deficit spending practices, but it'll will still take a long Long L-O-N-G LLLLLOOOONNNNGGGG time for the US to gener recover from the extensive damage already wrought - IS AMER WILL TO CHNAGE + ENDURE WHAT MUST OCCUR STRONG ENOUGH!?

ALTERNATIVE > LITTLE-TO-NOTHING CHANGES AS PER PCORRECT, GOOBERMINT-N-POL WAFFLECRAT-HAPPY "SPEND, SPEND, SPEND" FOREVERMORE RESULTING IN EVENTUAL USSR-STYLE IMPLOSION OF AMERICA [2030-2050].

Lest we fergit, OBAMA BUDGET > US$1.0 will be worth US$0.25 Cents + US$0.01 US Penny come 2020 = US$0.26 Cents, of which the USG will have to spend US$1.77 to match the same Dollar FMV.
"SPEND, SPEND, SPEND" YEAR 2020 = US$0.26 Cents will continue to lower, while the US$1.77 goes higher - THE USG CANNOT CATCH UP, + CANNOT AVOID ANY SORT OF HYPERINFLATION-N-WORSE ECON PRESSURES, ERGO "JUSTIFIED" ANTI-US, ANTI-DMEOCRATIC, ANTI-CAPITALISM/FREE MARKET, ETC. NATIONAL-GLOBAL SOCIALISM-GOVTISM BY DEFAULT/DEFINITION.

COMMIES + TOTALITARIANS WIN > its only an issue of how RADIC ISLAM = GOD-BASED SOCIALISTS-GOVTISTS will react to the SECULAR COMMIE "VICTORY".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-08 20:42|| 2010-02-08 20:42|| Front Page Top

#6 That NoMoreBS would be the key motivation for 3/4 of the smaller and far more fiscally sound states to call for that Constitutional Convention.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-08 22:49|| 2010-02-08 22:49|| Front Page Top

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