All you have to do is look at CA

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Grumpy
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All you have to do is look at CA

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If you ever needed evidence of what decades of liberal policies and public employee unions will do to a state, just look at CA. The state is a financial wreck and even if a flood of new taxes and fees are implemented we (the taxpayers and mostly your kids and grand kids) are still on the hook for decades to pay unfunded pensions and health plans for all the bloated top heavy bureaucracies we have been funding. But don't stop there, look at any of the states controlled by democratic legislatures for any amount of time and its a recurring pattern. Here in CA. they want more again, tell Jerry Brown wants to raise taxes with a ballot initiative, tell him, his union cronies and their tax initiative to go pound sand and quit spending your kids and grand kids money

They have already started with the scare tactics, teachers, police, firefighters, and programs for the old and disabled will be cut without drastic measures (raising your taxes and fees). Its always the same groups they threaten to cut to scare people into voting to tax themselves more, when in reality they would be the last ones to feel any pain. People would not stand for cutting programs for the old and disabled and the public employee unions would say no to any cuts to their members. Again, the burden will always fall on the private sector, no talk about reducing govt. But how about this novel idea, estimates of how much illegal immigrants cost the taxpayers are in the 10 to 12 billion a year range. Thats with a B, seems a good place to start cutting before you even consider taxing or cutting services to citizens. The state is in a financial hole, how could that be racist?

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Re: All you have to do is look at CA

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The "deficit" grows by 7 billion in 4 months? What kind of idiots (Democrats) are running the asylum if they miss the "projection" by 7 billion.

This is what I would do if I was Governor:

- Cutting the Dream Act would be a great place to start. We have short fall on the budget by $16 Billion - Illegal’s cost the State of California $22 Billion a year – see I just saved $6 Billion!
- The population of California on January 1st 2011 was approximately 37,254,376, California has 2.4 million government employees. What product do 2.4 million employees produce? That is 15 Californians for 1 State employee! That is a problem! Let make it 30 Californians for 1 State employee! Hell on Oct 26, 2011 – Jean Keller earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men's prison on California's central coast by tripling her regular pay with ... Illegals!
- Lets taxes the 48% that don’t pay anything!
- Why does California have more of its people on welfare than any other State?
- Any political benefit making more than one million has to pay 50% tax on anything above that amount!

I can start on Monday!
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Re: All you have to do is look at CA

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Marty, in CA democrats cannot run, hide from or spin any of the "whys" affecting this state, everything is solidly in their laps. States have always been experiments for the rest of the nation as to what works and what doesn't, CA should serve as the example for the rest of the nation "not" to follow. And since it has been totally controlled by democrats for so long it is all the evidence you need to prove their ideology and policies do not work. They have killed the state economically with high taxes on both individuals and businesses, piles of regulations and high fees on just about anything you can imagine and it doesn't stop there, their social policies are a failure especially in educating our kids. 78% of high school graduates cannot pass a national science test even though we pay one of the highest costs per student in the nation, a large percentage of them cannot read at high school levels, we have a huge illegal immigrant problem costing billions, and CA is a beacon for anyone seeking a state with generous govt. hand outs.
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