Comments on: Reform group wants higher taxes

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:54:03 +0000

It’s government the way Steve wants it that ran California into the ground. When you try and get government to do everything, you’ll find it can’t do anything very well and eventually it implodes.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:23:01 +0000

Cut the babble Steve.
Oh, and please DO move to Canada if you think their healthcare is so much better. But keep your visa current so you can come back to the US if you ever get sick. That’s what the Canadians do.

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:31:33 +0000

The role of government is to do for our people what they are unable to do for themselves. Democrats believe, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, that taxes “are the price we pay for a civilized society.”

Haven’t been to Cuba, Scotty, but I was here at home in 2008 when the results of the Republican philosophy of letting the private sector run amok became clear. No, I wouldn’t want to live in Cuba. But Canada, with its health care system that all citizens can enjoy, wouldn’t be so bad.

It’s awfully frustrating to try to have a rational conversation with someone who is honored to be in the company of two of the most dangerous people in America.

I assume, for example, that you believe–as Glenn Beck does–that social justice is a code word for communism or naziism. I also assume you subscribe to the Rush Limbaugh doctrine that any Republican who cooperates and tries to work together with people of differing parties or ideologies is a “traitor” and “unpatriotic.” Limbaugh has done more than any other person in my memory to destroy honest and constructive political discourse and cooperation in this country.

Other than that, they are probably both nice guys, as I’m sure you are.

By: Scotty Roberts

Scotty Roberts — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:29:01 +0000

Steve, I never have been able to understand the mind-set of democrats. Possibly you can help me. Why is it that government is relied on to do things for the poor and disabled and the private sector/charities/families are not? How is it that forcefully seizing money from a productive sector of the economy for all these “good” purposes be justified? Is it just majority/mob rule that only counts? Ever been to Cuba, Steve? I have, and believe me my friend when I tell you that you wouldn’t want to live there under that egalitarian system, if you catch my drift.

Please put me firmly on your list below Gayle, Glen Beck and Rush. I would be honored indeed.

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:25:51 +0000

Gayle would rather cut off home care to Alzheimer’s patients than tax oil companies on their production–something that every other oil producing state does. Thank God the majority of Californians don’t agree with her. Latest Field Poll shows 70 percent or more oppose cuts to programs for elderly, blind and disabled.

And Larry, I’m sorry you don’t have better things to do than track my online habits. Hey, maybe you can follow me online while listening to Rush and watching Glenn Beck. What a trifecta!

By: Gayle Kindall

Gayle Kindall — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:38:11 +0000

tell California Forward to back up–no higher taxes ( you can’t bleed a turnip), government
needs to trim everything. And no abolishment of the 2/3 vote required for raising such
taxes!! That’s how sneaky things get through and break up our preservation.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:01:11 +0000

Steve:
Why am I not surprised that you are a frequent(?) visitor at the huffingtonpost?

By: PRI

PRI — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:11:32 +0000

A decade ago in the Leg, Hertzberg was a big force behind the pension spiking that sank us into this fiscal hole.

The budget cuts are coming, and they’re going to be big and painful. Look at Greece: 25% budget cuts coming there. Same thing here.

The hangover is bigger the more you chugged.

— John Seiler

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:51:56 +0000

No, here’s why we’re in this mess: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-miller/dont-swat-the-kids_b_513079.html

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:44:59 +0000

‘Hertzberg insisted that “California is not failing; our successes are giving us the challenges.”’

Is it any wonder California is in the mess we are?