California is spiraling down the crapper rapidly! The state will entirely run out of money next month, and will then close up shop and call it a day, leaving citizens to eat each other for sustenance and travel solely by foot and bicycle and on the back of the weak who become slaves to the strong. The governor's plan is to suspend healthcare for nearly a million children and to take all the money from the schools. (No, really, that's his plan! Yes!) Unfortunately, the Democrats' plan is just to spend the little remaining reserve money left and hope everything works out. Gah! The good choice, which is not good at all, is to take out a high-interest loan that will keep California in poverty for years. Wow. So long!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Caam wis mee if you vant to liv (in Caaluforneeah).
Shouldn't all of Hollywood put on a non-stop telethon until they close the $24 billion gap? That plus legalizing and taxing weed should do it.
They need a proper earthquake first.
On the ballot in 2010!
Is Arnold is a Samuel Butler fan?
"The Judge was fully persuaded that the infliction of pain upon the weak and sickly was the only means of preventing weakness and sickliness from spreading..."
But hey! They sure are paying low taxes. It really is becoming like some insane Darwinian lab of Republican policies pursued to their most fatal ends.
Agreed - what will CA do when faced with the choice between paying a tax and continued delivery of potable tapwater?
brent, nobody in CA drinks tap water.
Well then that'd be a billion or two in savings right there, as long as you're not using it.
Don't know about low taxes, mine just went up.
Ironically, the LA Times Offers and Deals just spammed me a "Beaches Fantastic Family Fly Away" special "at beautiful Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort Villages & Spa in the sunny Caribbean."
http://contests.tribune.com/beaches/LA-Times
I think the aim of Arnie is to show the ridiculousness of the proposition system and use the crisis to change it. That's just a guess, though. Cuz if that ain't what he's doing, then he's just nuts.
That is the only explanation for his plan to close the beaches.
So would he have to hire guards to keep people off the beaches because they're closed because there's no money to pay lifeguards?
My only question is, when are the houses going to be Detroit-cheap?
It depends, how do you feel about a foreclosed/abandoned property somewhere in the far reaches of San Bernardino County?
Don't forget about the great bargains in south central LA.
Put a cig-like tax on Mexican food. Your morning tamales will save the state in no time.
Hey, Today says the state just got a new Miss California! Things are turning around!
I liked what a wag on sfgate commented recently: Californians pay for three governments: one works (well sort of) and two are retired and getting their defined benefit pensions some of which are unbelievable. From the Matier & Ross column, Sfgate, 6/1/2009:
"Statewide, the CalPERS system - which handles retirement for local and state employees - has 4,818 members earning annual pensions of $100,000 or more.
The highest-paid is Bruce Malkenhorst, who, as the former city manager of the tiny industrial town of Vernon (Los Angeles County), earned $600,000 a year.
His retirement pay: $499,674. Which he continues to collect, even as he's under indictment for allegedly stealing city money.
By the way, Malkenhorst's son, Bruce Jr., now has his dad's old job."
No 401(k)s for these folks!
Forget it propertius, it's Chinatown.
But without the romance!
All those funds are absolutely separate from, and invested independent from, state funds.
CalPERS, while certainly HUGE, only has a fiduciary duty to its members -- not the entire state. And if the CA government started divesting CalPERS of money so that it could go toward non-members? Helluva lawsuit.
Personally, I'm investing in studded leather and sawed-off shotguns for, erm, when the "revolution" comes and not at all for Saturday night.
I live in NorCal, and here's my idea: massive strike. No movies, no vegetables/grains, no tech ideas, nothing for all the rest of you that depend on the eighth largest economy in the world. And NO POT. Suffer, suckers. You've all been feeding off of us for way too long!
I'm totally fine with that. Can I return all the Californians that ruined housing prices up here in Portland as well? Oh, and I think we'll be just fine without your pot, movies or "tech ideas".
Hey, we're not the ones who pay your taxes! But he's right - your pot is just meh. And your movies suck.
Yeah! Wait, that's not covered by insurance, is it?
um that was supposed to be in response to:
"sauer[#148]
They need a proper earthquake first."