Comments on: Broke State Budget Hits Dead End

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:38:28 +0000

This would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

By: Broke State Budget Hits Dead End « Is it 2012 in Nevada County Yet?

Broke State Budget Hits Dead End « Is it 2012 in Nevada County Yet? — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:53:30 +0000

[…] can read the rest of Katy’s insightful article HERE. But here are some choice quotes: According to a Capitol staffer who asked to remain anonymous, it […]

By: Cheerful Cynic

Cheerful Cynic — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:54:49 +0000

Everything Katy wrote makes sense; I/we have known this for decades. And for decades, we have heard how it [AKA budget scams] can’t go on like this much longer. That this city, that county, those states, the feds, etc., would crash and burn. Any day now. You betcha. It makes sense thinking that – if WE ran our financial/etc. lives this way, we definitely would crash and burn. And yet the monsters simply do not die. Every year, Lucy grabs the football at the last second. Somehow reality, economic gravity, don’t apply. Don’t get the wrong idea – I totally HATE the financial way government runs. I want all this to change as much as millions and hopefully most Americans want. I just wonder how all these economic mismanagers prevent the economic meteor from hitting the system they built.

By: queeg

queeg — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:32:06 +0000

You live in the worst if times and pine for the best of times!

Grow up…take care of your own……

Utopia is costly so bend over and pay!!!

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:12:51 +0000

“This is not going to change unless WE stand and take action. We know what needs to be done, but are too afraid to act. We are near the final push, we either push back, or we will be shoved over the cliff”

The Occupy movement already tried that. Look what happened to them. Sprayed in the face with mace and transported off to the slammer in cattle cars. Thousands of them. The problem is that you have lapdogs in the media who claim to be against the status quo who condemned the Occupy movement and in turn gave their defacto support to the government and corrupted big business. When the truth is not exposed to the general public via the media stupidity runs rampant. In general, the people and the voters are dumber than bags of dried turds. The information has to be dissected and hand fed to them. 70% only know what they see on the 6 o’clock news – and most of that are bald faced lies. We Americans have lost our spirit. Your average American is a slave to the oligarchs without even understanding what the f is going on around them.

By: Rex The Wonder Dog!

Rex The Wonder Dog! — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:35:45 +0000

WE THE PEOPLE, let it happen. This is not going to change unless WE stand and take action. We know what needs to be done, but are too afraid to act

Sorry, but WE have been doing all WE can, and WE are not afraid to act, $$$$ runs this country, w/o it you’re a nobody with no power.

By: lee timmerman

lee timmerman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:19:34 +0000

This is a surprise to some? Did anyone listen to John and Ken on KFI radio? They explained this, with the over estimated revenues and moving the spending around, about 48 hours after these lying, lowlife, bums passed that bogus budget. This state and country are in real trouble, and WE THE PEOPLE, let it happen. This is not going to change unless WE stand and take action. We know what needs to be done, but are too afraid to act. We are near the final push, we either push back, or we will be shoved over the cliff. I pray every day, asking for our leaders to learn to do the right thing. I pray if that is not to be, then I ask for wisdom to do the right thing. I fear we have seen the best this country has to offer, unless ??????

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:45:18 +0000

Sorry Hondo – I thought that if I could understand the state flim flam, I could make anyone see it.

– Katy

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:14:08 +0000

Bless you Katy for trying to explain to us the Linsanely (oops, I said a racist thing about Jeramey Lin) complicated shell game which is Kalifornias budget. It’s like me trying to explain derivatives to my mom when I’m not really sure what they are ( I believe they are simply mathematical equations that are traded as financial instruments. Am I wrong?).
The easier way to explain how Kali can’t balance their budget is to look at Stockton who, in the 90s, gave lifetime free health care to employees who only worked a month. No matter how many times I read that I still can’t (nor can my mother)fathom how a city can promise such things.
Thanx for trying Katy, I still can’t figure it out.
Hondo

By: Rex The Wonder Dog!

Rex The Wonder Dog! — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:49:20 +0000

This is nothing new, every gov in the last 25 years has pulled this stunt-over estimate taxes/revenue and underestimate expenses. Happens EVERY year.

If this were the private sector and they did this to share holders they would be in prison.