California Legislators Reach Budget Deal
Good news from the Golden State: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced Monday that they had reached a deal to close California's $26.3-billion deficit and begin paying all of the state's bills again, potentially ending months of partisan wrangling and a cash crisis that threatens to push California into insolvency." The agreement ensures that taxes will not be raised and provides each poor California resident with a shiny apple, a bus ticket to Oregon, and a ten-minute head start before the state releases everyone in the prison system.
Five stars for Balk's last line!
10 minute head start to be taken as unpaid furlough.
Guess it's time to blow up the rickety bridge to Oregon, River Kwai style.
The prison system is the last remaining provider of social services. No more funding for services to the poor, the homeless, the disabled, the mentally ill, the elderly, the sick and uninsured. There is barely an education system left. Terminator has given up on trying to save us girly men.
The Terminator's plan was to call people girly men until they fell in line with his demands, which were for Californians to be less girly man-like. But Californians are such girly men that we don't even care if we are called girly men.
California is at Beyond Thunderdome stage. And Mad Max isn't coming to save us because we all a bunch of sugar-titted Jews. And girly men.