Thursday, 9. July 2009, 18:26:00
budget, spending, California, unions
I'm shamelessly swiping the post title from Lou Minatti's blog simply because I think it's perfect. These are a few comments posted on the Sacramento Bee site:
next_milenium
To all state employee haters:
Stop wasting time and go back to flipping burgers!
Class dismissed!
hamner75
State workers are the backbone of all Californians. No furloughs, no pay cuts, or layoffs. Give us all raises and we will all start putting are money back into the economy and everyone will be happy.
sealgaire
But, obviously you hate state workers, probably because you could not pass the entrance exam to get a job. Can I have a Big Mac, fries, and a medium coke please? Have a nice day.
In case you hadn't heard, the State of California is, for all practical purposes, bankrupt. They've spent like drunken sailors so hard, for so long, that they're broke. It's at the point that the state is issuing
IOUs of questionable value to cover its bills.
To illustrate that point, Lou adds this very revealing graph of California budget growth over the past 10 years:
But then, being a state worker makes you somehow... better than the chumps who insist that they need raises. Raises, fer Chrissake! Are they truly that stupid, or is this mere bravado?
One of Lou's commenters has, I think, hit the nail on the head:
State workers are just terrified because they know their world is about to rock and rock hard.
I hope so. I truly do. Unions were once respected, even revered -- but that was a long, long time ago. Now, they're simply loathed.
Wednesday, 8. July 2009, 15:05:02
control, democrats, congress
If
you don't like the direction the country is headed, you're going to like it less now that the
Democrats have total control of Congress:
On the other hand, if you are currently satisfied with the Democrats' progress on the econony, socialized medicine, enormous energy taxes, and the rest... you have 18 months to decide whether you're
still satisfied.
Saturday, 4. July 2009, 15:15:58
America, july fourth, Independence Day
Long may it wave!
And a special cheer if you have the American flag proudly displayed at your home.
Friday, 3. July 2009, 01:08:25
tax, obama, cap-and-trade
There's a very enlightening
video which spells out the reality that the Democrats' "cap & trade" legislation is, in their own words,
a tax -- and "a great big one at that" -- that will cost us billions of dollars.
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." -- Barack Obama
"Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax -- and it's a great big one." -- John Dingell (D-MI)
The House passed it, barely. The fight now goes to the Senate, where the special-interest pressure to pass this latest Obama boondoggle will be intense. It might just help, though, if we
gave the Senate some balls:
The U.S. House has passed the disastrous Cap & Trade bill that will destroy 2.5 regular jobs for every green job it creates. The Democrats admit that your energy bills are going to rise. They're just not going to be honest enough with you to tell you how high they're likely to go. Moody's says your electric bill will rise 15-30 percent. A Heritage Foundation study says it's more likely going to be around 90 percent. Whoever's right, Congress has voted to increase your energy costs ... in the middle of a recession!
Our only hope at killing this bill is with the United States Senate. The problem is we're not sure they have what it takes to stop this bill. We're seeing socialism ushered in like we've never seen it before in the history of our nation. Drastic times call for drastic measures. That's where you come in.
We're urging you to "Give the Senate Some Balls" by sending a couple of ping-pong balls or golf balls to each of your two U.S. senators. Decorate them, if you like. Write a message on them if you want to (keep it clean and respectful). As this movement catches on across the country this will send a louder message than any e-mail or phone call could ever do. Sure, it may be a little on the indelicate side but it gets the point across.
Thursday, 25. June 2009, 22:02:07
politics, media, hypocrisy
I don't actually know much about Governor Mark Sanford except that 1) he was separated from his wife who 2) told him to get lost which 3) he did, with The Other Woman, which means that 4) his political career is basically over. And, frankly, I don't care. If I had a dollar for every philandering politician...
No, what gets my goat is the media glee: The game's afoot!
Mark my words: the media will spare no expense, leave no stone unturned to find out:
Who is The Mystery Woman?This is, of course, the same media that studiously averted their collective eyes from inconvenient questions about candidate Barack Obama -- his school years, his experience as a 'community organizer,' his associations in the Chicago political arena, and much, much more.
The same media that nonetheless managed,
in less than 48 hours, to dig up every salacious and inconsequential detail on 'Joe the Plumber.'
The same media that dispatched planeloads of newshounds to Alaska to dumpster-dive for dirt on the Palins.
And the same media that's
openly cheerleading for nationalized health care, cap-and-trade, and the rest of The One's agenda which will inevitably result in
multi-trillion-dollar deficits that our children's children's children will pay for.
Guess we know what's important to MSNBCCNNNBCBS, eh?
The midterm elections cannot come soon enough.
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