Quote from 377OHMS:
Honestly thats what irks me. Faced with a choice between a competent CEO and Jerry Moonbeam they chose Jerry. Faced with a choice between another competent CEO and Barbara Boxer they chose Barbara. California voted to continue and massively expand spending on social services even though the state can already not meet its obligations. They voted to enact monstrous environmental laws that will chase the remaining businesses out of state. They seem to know they will get the money from Obama. Mr. Obama will either tax you for the money or just print it, either way everyone pays.
Lets face it, the dems want to load california up with mexicans and give them all the vote. Its their model for the whole nation.
CA is is the Democratic now Socialist blueprint.
Just about every non gay working person I know who is not employed by the CA govt is against what is going on.
But, CA handouts so much money to the unemployed, and provides such massive services to immigrants - illegal and otherwise... we need to hire more social workers, teachers cops and firemen.
Then our politicans promise those guys high 5 to six figure salaries... (I am friends with cop who makes great money and my brother in laws neighbor is a fireman making 160 to 170... with overtime).... and crazy retirment benefits.
In short so many people are on the CA handout list that working people in private industry can no longer outvote them.
so the democratic legislature spends more than we have even though the have incredible revenues.... just to keep the voting numbers skewed in their favor.
New york did it first prior to CA... and I am sure other big east coast cities followed the same pattern.
Handouts bring in freeloading democratic voters.... then you have to support them with social workers cops firemen and teachers.
soon the govt freeloaders then overwhelm the working people.
If the country does not have the balls to tell CA and other bankrupt states to reset to market salaries and renegotiate retirement benefits. The larger blue states will take down the rest of the country....
The dems in CA have done this on purpose... 32% of the nations welfare recipients are here.
It is a sick disgusting plan and it must be stopped.
The federal govt can not bail us out --- not if you are patriot.
Democrats must be stopped. We must get back to balanced budgets. Contracts must be renegotiated to sustainable levels.