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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Hawkgirl on May 15, 2009, 12:41:30 AM
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(CNN) -- Faced with a projected $42 billion deficit, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says his office will send out 20,000 layoff notices Tuesday if lawmakers fail to reach a budget deal before then, according to a spokesman.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned lawmakers about potential job cuts last week.
The Republican governor, who declared a fiscal emergency in December, has butted heads for months with the Democratic majority over alleviating the state's $11.2 billion revenue shortfall.
He warned lawmakers about the cuts last week, urging them to approve the latest budget proposal.
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Running short of cash, California last month started delaying $3.5 billion in payments to taxpayers, contractors, counties and social service agencies so the state could continue funding schools and making debt payments.
"The real-life impact will be the slowdown -- the actual shutdown -- of hundreds of state funded transportation projects, people not getting paid, taxpayers not getting refunds," said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.
Full Article (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/16/california.budget.crisis/index.html)
Hmmmm...leave a bunch of true blue liberals running a state for too long and what happens??? California, the state with the highest taxation system and most social programs goes bankrupt.
Now imagine this on a larger playing field...the U.S.A and we'll follow.....liberals will destroy this country if we don't get out and vote next year and start taking power away from them.
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You go, Arnold.
Show them how to cut, slash, decapitate, spending.
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How many illegal aliens live in CA and are on the gubmint dole? :fuelfire:
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How many illegal aliens live in CA and are on the gubmint dole? :fuelfire:
I don't know but we should build a fence around Californicate to keep the socialist liberals that caused the mess confined in the mess they created.
STOP THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OF SOCIALIST CALIFORNIANS.
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I saw a great bumper
sticker snicker this morning.....
"I'll keep my guns, freedom and money -
You can keep the 'change'"
:-)
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I saw a great bumper sticker snicker this morning.....
"I'll keep my guns, freedom and money -
You can keep the 'change'"
:-)
You've been following me to work? Yes, it's on my car. Looks kinda like this:
(http://www.patriotdepot.com/images/products/detail/Keep_My_Guns_Free.jpg)
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Son went out Wedesday night to put some fliers in mailboxes.....Scout project for I know not what.....he came back with 2 bumper snickers. They were a quote from the Iron maiden, Mrs Thatcher. He gave one to a friend at school and pasted one on his locker at school. Went something like ........
"Socialism is fine until you run out of other peoples money"
California.....you have run out of other peoples money. :-)
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You go, Arnold.
Show them how to cut, slash, decapitate, spending.
The first time Arnold ran I voted for him. After he showed his "true" colors, IE: overspending, stupid polices (lets spend 15 billion on illegals, hows THAT going Arnie??) capitulating to the DEMs and, for all intents and purposes, switching to Liberalism, I can't wait for this azzhole to be out of office.
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*runs in*
California?!
Bust?!
Dammit! I thought this was another topless Carrie Prejean thread!
*pouts*
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You've been following me to work? Yes, it's on my car. Looks kinda like this:
(http://www.patriotdepot.com/images/products/detail/Keep_My_Guns_Free.jpg)
That's the one. :cheersmate:
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I saw a great bumper sticker snicker this morning.....
"I'll keep my guns, freedom and money -
You can keep the 'change'"
:-)
I like that one....what's even more funny is I was looking through my rule book for the game Warhammer 40,000 the other day. In it are various sayings and proverbs from characters in the game universe. I found one for The Obumbler on page 53....
"Hope is the begining of unhappyness"
Judjing by the reaction of the various looney lefties to The Obumbler's actions, this is so true.....and I love it!!!
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Well, as California goes, so does the whole country. They were told that they were an expirement in socialism back in 2002, and they have absolutely no control over their illegal immigration problem. There's scads of tax increases on the ballot that are going to be voted down very soon, chaos reigns.
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Well, as California goes, so does the whole country.
That's an old and distant truth. Now it's Texas and Florida. California is a toilet.
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Well, as California goes, so does the whole country. They were told that they were an expirement in socialism back in 2002, and they have absolutely no control over their illegal immigration problem. There's scads of tax increases on the ballot that are going to be voted down very soon, chaos reigns.
I believe California goes to the polls on Tuesday the 19th, (tomorrow) to vote on surrendering their paychecks to the state.
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I believe California goes to the polls on Tuesday the 19th, (tomorrow) to vote on surrendering their paychecks to the state.
That we do. There aren't any really controversial propositions on the ballot; they are all related to the budget, so I expect the turnout will be fairly low. Hopefully most of the liberals won't bother coming out.
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That's an old and distant truth. Now it's Texas and Florida. California is a toilet.
Well Florida swung to the left last election season..but not by a significant majority...and anyone you speak to here is disgusted in Obama...(with exception of the hardcore sheeps) Charlie Crist has done right by us...but rumor is he's going for a senate run...not a bad guy to have in the Right column.
Our housing market has hit bottom though..in my opinion.
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That we do. There aren't any really controversial propositions on the ballot; they are all related to the budget, so I expect the turnout will be fairly low. Hopefully most of the liberals won't bother coming out.
Aren't there a lot of tax raises on the ballot? I've been hearing that Arnie has been pushing for people to get out and vote.
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Aren't there a lot of tax raises on the ballot? I've been hearing that Arnie has been pushing for people to get out and vote.
Yes, there are a lot of tax raises, and of course we've had all sort of commercials telling us that the economy will collapse, and the schools will suffer, if we don't vote for them. Too bad, so sad, I'm voting no and I doubt that I'll ever regret it.
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Yes, there are a lot of tax raises, and of course we've had all sort of commercials telling us that the economy will collapse, and the schools will suffer, if we don't vote for them. Too bad, so sad, I'm voting no and I doubt that I'll ever regret it.
Same here, every one of the measures has some sort of BS that lets the Dems off the fiscal hook.
Not Gonna Happen
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California Goes Bust,
well, duh.
Our last two governors have been boobs
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Aren't there a lot of tax raises on the ballot? I've been hearing that Arnie has been pushing for people to get out and vote.
hi5 for your siggie!
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hi5 for your siggie!
Thanks. It was time for a "change".
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My husband has one bumper sticker on his big huge 8 cylinder Dodge truck:
STOP GLOBAL WHINING
And we live on the liberal island of Austin, Texas.
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Well Florida swung to the left last election season..but not by a significant majority...and anyone you speak to here is disgusted in Obama...(with exception of the hardcore sheeps) Charlie Crist has done right by us...but rumor is he's going for a senate run...not a bad guy to have in the Right column.
Our housing market has hit bottom though..in my opinion.
A lot of places turned "blue" in the last election. They're just bruises and will resort back to a healthy color soon.
The idea is that states like Florida and Texas do not have a state income tax (Texas NEVER will - it's in the State Constitution), and they do not treat industry as enemies. Those are the keys to prosperity.
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Yes, there are a lot of tax raises, and of course we've had all sort of commercials telling us that the economy will collapse, and the schools will suffer, if we don't vote for them. Too bad, so sad, I'm voting no and I doubt that I'll ever regret it.
You must still live in California (see how quick I am on the uptake?), so thank you for voting (right)!!! I was already long gone when it came time to recall Gray Davis, I thought the state was a mess then.
I hope CA isn't a belweather state anymore, FL or TX would be fine by me. Texas between the two, though, Florida has a high sales tax, just like WA state, IL, and New Yawk.
Die, Prop1A, die!!! Accotding to this poll, I'll get my wish: http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/05/11/daily41.html?ana=from_rss
The whine should be strong tomorrow.
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A lot of places turned "blue" in the last election. They're just bruises and will resort back to a healthy color soon.
The idea is that states like Florida and Texas do not have a state income tax (Texas NEVER will - it's in the State Constitution), and they do not treat industry as enemies. Those are the keys to prosperity.
No state tax and Anti-Union state.....Right to Work state.
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Seems to me that Cali. needs to take a hard look at the Billions that are spent on Illegal Immigrants. Could probably balance the budget right there.
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Seems to me that Cali. needs to take a hard look at the Billions that are spent on Illegal Immigrants. Could probably balance the budget right there.
But those are the Dem voting base and help maintain Calipornia as a blue state. :)
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Seems to me that Cali. needs to take a hard look at the Billions that are spent on Illegal Immigrants. Could probably balance the budget right there.
...and just who the hell will cut the grass?
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It appears that the last ballot before the voters to increase taxes D*I*D N*O*T P*A*S*S
Arny is now set to begin the process of massive state layoffs.
I've never lived in cali-PORN-e-uh, just passed through several times enroute to Hawaii and WESTPAC assignments.
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CALIFORNIA DEMON
All who leaves are brown,
Can't afford to stay,
They've been for a rout,
On Election Day,
They'd be fed and warm,
If they were in Del Ray,
California demon,
On such a winner's day.
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...and just who the hell will cut the grass?
Of course, my mistake, I guess I figured that they would cut their own grass, like most of the rest of us in the peasant states. And the govunator now says they got to cut much more from the education buget. Go figure, penalize the kids, not the illegals.Bet they still get special funds for their ed. If the priorities in California would be laughable, if it didn't screw so many normal people.
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Of course, my mistake, I guess I figured that they would cut their own grass, like most of the rest of us in the peasant states. And the govunator now says they got to cut much more from the education buget. Go figure, penalize the kids, not the illegals.Bet they still get special funds for their ed. If the priorities in California would be laughable, if it didn't screw so many normal people.
OTOH, by continuing to cut education, police, fire, BUT not programs for illegals and welfare benefits, they'll just drive more tax payers from the state and continue spiraling down the drain.
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I don't ever want to see the words "California" and "bust" used in the same sentence unless accompanied by pics of Carrie Prejean.
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the folks in the legislature depend on the votes of the illeagals and the welfare cases to get elected. Less and less business will get done in CA, and they will just ride the spiral down. They have to know what is headed their way, but power is more important to them than anything else. If CA looses All the productive, well, Obama will rescue them.
These are the people who voted in Gray Davis for two terms.
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I guess when the Okies leave California the sign on the tin lizzy will read.....
"CALIFORNIA OR BUSTed"
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This thread reminds me
I have to go take a California and flush the Ahnald to watch the swirl.
BTW: Florida state sales tax is only 5 percent. You touristas pay more though, Thank You. :-)
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will they not touch the bureaucrats? will they not cut the arts programs?
of course not.
this is not a spending problem according to this CNN article but a "revenue shortfall"
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This thread reminds me
I have to go take a California and flush the Ahnald to watch the swirl.
BTW: Florida state sales tax is only 5 percent. You touristas pay more though, Thank You. :-)
California's recently reached 9.25%.
I look at other states and I wonder how more Californians don't start wondering why we have to pay so much more in taxes and yet are still always short on funds.
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California's recently reached 9.25%.
I look at other states and I wonder how more Californians don't start wondering why we have to pay so much more in taxes and yet are still always short on funds.
Sales taxes here range from %9.25 to %9.75 depending on what county you are in. They tax just about everything...food, prescriptions and OTC meds, etc.