Comments on: Chiang: State Broke on March 8

By: Seiler: Blackout Shows CA Is Third World

Seiler: Blackout Shows CA Is Third World — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:27:16 +0000

[…] much taxing that drives away producers and a general anti-business attitude are major reasons why California effectively is bankrupt. * Shrinking Middle Class. The pattern in First World areas — such as California once was — is […]

By: hishandywork

hishandywork — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:33:36 +0000

Really? What is really scary isn’t Gov Brown, it’s that people in Stupidfornia are so dumbed down they voted him into office! What are the likes of GREAT NAMES like Waters, Feinstein, Boxer, Brown (and the list goes on and on and on) doing to bring companies back to California? Companies that left and took all the jobs with them! Nothing, that’s what they are doing because the liberal mentality is to let the state of Stupidfornia go back to pastureland or back to Mexico. Too many liberals in California and the only way to fix it is for all the conservatives to move out of state. Once all the givers are gone, the takers will start to starve and that will be the only way to fix this mess. As for me, I am on my way out. I just need about another 12 months and I will be gone like so many other people I know who are leaving.

By: queeg

queeg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:03:06 +0000

Work together???? A joke!!!

Democrats run everything….and we work together….????

How??? By rolling over and giving all our assets to government???

By: Tough Love

Tough Love — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:12:20 +0000

Renege on ALL the ridiculously excessive pensions and retire healthcare promises.

By: TheBeachBum

TheBeachBum — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:04:04 +0000

California is in a state of fiscal crisis while the Governor, along with the majority party state legislators, continue `business as usual’. They propose a totally bogus budget, only to set the Governor up as a public savior by `rejecting’ it, then approving an almost equally bogus budget, kicking the can-down-the-road, but freeing up legislative paychecks. Then Brown proposes a `reform’ measure that a.) hasn’t been acted on and b.) relies on a pie-in-the-sky tax measure that won’t even be acted upon (rejected) until November (more `can-down-the-road’ tactics). It seems like they are all a part of some medical marijuana research group. After all, they have put California (local & state) on a continuous high! We have the…
– Highest paid Legislators in the nation,
– Highest paid City Managers in the nation,
– Highest paid State Troopers in the nation,
– Highest paid Prison Guards in the nation,
– Highest paid Firefighters in the nation,
– Highest paid public university Professors in the nation,
– Highest paid K-12 Teachers in the nation, (our schools rank at or near the lowest)

And… at public expense, for the rest of their non-working, retired, lives….
– The most generous government employee pensions in the nation.

To keep the above high standard of living (WELL above the rest of the non-government state and nation workers), they have seen fit to saddle California with the highest overall taxes in the nation, forcing our businesses to shut down or move elsewhere. Now they are shutting down parks and services at an unprecedented rate to meet state employee salary and benefit obligations… AND WE’RE STILL BROKE!

This is not only unsustainable, it is unjust and immoral!

Public employee compensation should be no better, and no worse, than what is available to other employees in the community.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:54:00 +0000

I really dont see how cynicism is going to help anything. You have the right to be mad, but we have to work together to find solutions.

By: queeg

queeg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:54:33 +0000

All the leeches sucking on the state will defer a tad to get the socialists over this speed bump.

Then the merry…go…round fires up again.

By: Rex The Wonder Dog!

Rex The Wonder Dog! — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:31:13 +0000

We are in this same situation every single year-every one. Time to freeze all pay and all benefits-everything- for 5 years.

By: surfcitybob

surfcitybob — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:12:39 +0000

It doesn’t matter a hill of beans to me! STOP spending my taxes on useless things!!

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:36:33 +0000

“This new budget crisis comes at a very difficult time for the governor after he travelled the state selling his tax initiative as preventing draconian funding cuts to popular K-12 schools”

No, this latest budget crisis allows Jerry Clown an even greater opportunity to sell his tax plan to the Ca public. Now he can play his “tanks in the street” card if the tax plan gets voted down.

Besides, this shortfall is relatively small and will continue to be papered over through intergovernmental borrowing and sale of future revenues. Illinois has $8.5 billion in overdue invoices and they don’t give a crap. Until tax revenues REALLY starts to tank, nothing will be done. And if push comes to shove Obama will figure out a way to save his largest voting block.

They would probably send you IOU in lieu of your state tax refund this year like they did in 2009 to fix the problem. However, most everyone (at least the smart ones) has adjusted their withholds to ensure that they owe just a little bit at the end of the tax year! That way there’s nothing left for the taxman to steal! So the IOU scam would no longer work! 😀