Comments on: CA Running Massive Cash Deficit

By: doug

doug — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:48:13 +0000

I attended my local neighborhood watch meeting last week. we had our local city rep from long beach, CA attending. he stated that all RDA’s from the state were being pulled by gov. brown and that all money has dried up. the city took posession of the lands that RDA had. now it will have to sell it. but, also mentioned was the huge pension problem with the city and its 9 employee unions it has to deal with. they are expected to raise local utility taxes and make the usual city wide program cuts for 2012.
i dont think my neighbors understand where the money comes from with all the new bike lanes they added downtown.
We still havent paid for it yet.

By: David H

David H — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:53:38 +0000

Lets take all that government pension money and turn the money into jobs for the working poor that have kids. Sounds fair.

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:23:31 +0000

Couldn’t wait to pass this along to help dispel the Rabid Right’s myths about welfare. Read and learn.

“While a common perception of welfare is a program that supports poor, unproductive people, the program has morphed over the past decade into one that provides not just cash grants but job training and services to help people enter the workforce. And more than anything, it is a program that supports children. More than 1 million of the 1.4 million people helped by the program are children. It is also a program which, while never a major part of the state budget, has shrunk dramatically over the past generation.” (columnist Daniel Weintraub)

But hey, let’s make those 1 million kids get jobs like the rest of us God-fearing ‘Mericans.

By: queeg

queeg — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:42:50 +0000

Each year about 30% or so of public school students do not graduate….phenomena for many years!

Check ball games, swap meets, mall common areas, fast food joints, pop star concerts….they are there in droves.

They cannot compete in a tech economy; there economic growth prospects are negligible….

They rely on government services…tax the rich sounds great…they feel the love from boundless welfare groups funded by government, the benevolent one!

Wake up…there are millions and millions of them…they are eyeing you right now!!!

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:40:03 +0000

Good one eyeamok! Sad but true!

By: Eyeamok

Eyeamok — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:17:20 +0000

I don’t think California has anything to worry about, just because 5 companies a week move to another State with their Employees doesn’t matter much. I drive all over SoCal regularly and have notice 2 very large businesses taking over commercial real estate on an unprecedented scale. I see their signs everywhere “literally”. I am not sure what they do or make or sell but when they open, by the amount of commercial Real estate and buildings they are taking over it should employ millions of people. Anyway the names of these two companies are “For Lease” and ” Space Available”, and they are literally taking over in Souther California.

By: David H

David H — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:58:26 +0000

What we really need is more unions to control more labor markets and earn more money, plus more regulations, along with more government workers to earn more money enforcing the regulations. (Sarcasm)

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:41:21 +0000

“Even if the public shocks pollsters and actually passes the tax increase, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office calculated the initiative would only generate $4.8 billion per year.”

Makes no never mind to your typical DemoNcrat.

They will come right back at ya with demands for ever more tax increases.

To a DemoNcrat tax increases are ALWAYS the answer.

By: RT

RT — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:48:55 +0000

California is tax addicted, and its people are addicted to Government Services. California will not hear the calls for it to get itself right. Like all addicts, they do not see they have a problem. California’s tax addiction has been ignored for too long. Now California is about to OD and the government is crying out for a new source of taxes for its addiction. However, the fact is that no matter how much of our taxes are coming in to the government, it will never be enough. They are addicted! I will miss California when it OD’s. Too bad that no one was willing to force it into rehab.