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February 17, 2009

California Dreamin'

Well, maybe a better term is nightmare

Reporting from Sacramento -- With lawmakers still unable to deliver a budget after three days of intense negotiations, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared to lay off 10,000 government workers and his administration said it would halt the last 275 state-funded public works projects still in operation.

The projects, which cost $3.8 billion and include upgrades to 18 bridges and roads in Los Angeles County to protect them from collapsing in earthquakes, had been allowed to continue as others were suspended because the state was running out of cash.

Remember how a few years ago everyone was all a gaga about Ahnuld, and how we should change the Constitution so he could become President? Puh-lease. Sadly, California is a mini version of where the US as a whole is heading due to complete financial negligence and treasury-raiding, done not to "help people" or any such blather but simply to win votes. It's disgusting, and the very reason why things at all levels of government are so screwed up.

This quote from this article sums it up perfectly

"It's unconscionable that we let this state go over the cliff," Adams said in an interview. "My job is to get the best possible deal for Republicans."

No, you corrupt little turd, your job, your duty, is to do the best possible thing, the right thing, for the citizens of your state; for it is for them that you 'serve,' not for your party.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: both Parties are now so horribly corrupt, so firmly ensconced that they only exist to keep themselves in power. If things are to change we need to start electing some independent folks to office to break this monopoly of power.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at February 17, 2009 07:20 AM

Comments

I'm on the SacBee news update list. I'm bombarded with this crap several times a day.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at February 17, 2009 08:44 AM

New Jersey is not far behind. Economic mess, wasteful spending, world-class corruption and a dipshit for a governor. Like you, I would like to see every goddamned one of them booted out of office.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at February 17, 2009 08:47 AM

Add Kansas to the list, they suspended payment of income tax refunds and are at risk of missing their next payroll.

TCM is showing Shall We Dance this morning, and the Dow is down 250 points.

Posted by: Retread at February 17, 2009 11:58 AM

Yay. I haven't heard Washington State is that bad, but then, we still have a part-time legislature, and a fair number of rational legislators. Still, it's only a matter of time.

Maybe we can entice Oregon to shutting off their border with California, and keep the flood of refugees down there.....

Except for the nice fellers like Ken, of course.

Posted by: JeffS at February 17, 2009 06:07 PM

"nice fellers like Ken"

Huh. Got you fooled.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at February 17, 2009 11:08 PM

Huh. I wonder if we'll soon see "The Grapes of Wrath" in reverse, desperate broke Californians driving into Oklahoma in old beat-up pickup trucks.

Oklahomans would probably welcome them PROVIDED the Californians don't try to dictate how the Oklahomans run their lives. Or expect arugula in the grocery stores.

Posted by: ricki at February 18, 2009 10:39 AM