Californians Say No More Money Liberals

Talk about saying "Screw You?"

Hey folks,

Some want to look at California as a model for the rest of the country. I say GREAT. I hope they are right. No, not the Liberal Policies that have BANKRUPTED the State, but the voice of the PEOPLE saying enough is enough.

Six propositions went down to defeat. One of the biggest ones, Proposition 1A, which would have extended certain tax increases, did not win a single county in California. The closest it came to 50% was San Francisco County with 46.8%. That's right folks, Nancy Pelosi's district voted against a tax increase. Guess they really did not want that bigger Government and more taxes to pay as some Liberal Leaders were saying.

Of course this means that Obama will have to come in to the rescue. They will threaten their citizens with cuts in Fire and Police, then Obama and the Federal Government will swoop in to the rescue with more of YOUR money.

The people in California clearly said NO. They said No to five times to higher taxes. Then they said Yes to freezing state legislator's salaries during bad economic times. You know they, the Politicians HATE that. So the MMD {Mainstream Media Drones} opened up a full attack mode against the PEOPLE. Not those responsible for getting California in the situation it is in. Why? I'll answer that in a second. But hear is just one example.

LA Times - California voters exercise their power -- and that's the problem
Residents relish their role in the lawmaking process, but they share the blame for the state's severe dysfunction.
By Michael Finnegan
May 20, 2009

"That's the problem?" Seriously? No Mr. Finnegan, The State GOVERNMENT, and the Liberal Policies is the problem.

Californians are well known for periodic voter revolts, but on Tuesday they did more than just lash out at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature over the state's fiscal debacle.

By rejecting five budget measures, Californians also brought into stark relief the fact that they, too, share blame for the political dysfunction that has brought California to the brink of insolvency.

Rightly or wrongly, voters in the special election refused either to extend new tax hikes or to cap state spending. They also declined to unlock funds that they had voted in better financial times to set aside for special purposes.

Nearly a century after the Progressive-era birth of the state's ballot-measure system, it is clear that voters' fickle commands, one proposition at a time, are a top contributor to paralysis in Sacramento. And that, in turn, has helped cripple the capacity of the governor and Legislature to provide effective leadership to a state of more than 38 million people.

No. OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING is what caused this problem. OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING and completely idiotic programs.

Clogged freeways, the decline of public schools, an outdated water system and a battered economy are just a few of the challenges demanding action by state leaders. Instead, they are consumed by yet another budget crisis, one that voters worsened Tuesday.

So why do they have all these problems? Where has the money been going over the years INSTEAD of infrastructure, Education, and daily upkeep? Unrealistic and oppressive regulations on an entire industry in the name of a scam? Unconstitutional redistribution of wealth to help care for those that should not be here to begin with? All this oppressive taxation, regulation and dictation of policies, and things keep getting worse?

"No one's really stepping back and confronting the harsh realities that face our state in a critical sense, because of constraints put on our elected leaders," said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California. "We're unable to focus on the long term and the big picture at a time when we desperately need to do so."

Plain and simply BS. Want more money? SPEND LESS. Spend WISELY on programs that actually MEAN something.

The results Tuesday fit Californians' long-standing pattern of demanding what is ultimately irreconcilable, all the more so in an economic downturn: lower taxes and higher spending.

Wrong. They want REASONABLE Spending. Cut the garbage out.

"We all want a free lunch, but unfortunately that doesn't exist," said former Gov. Gray Davis, whose 2003 recall stemmed largely from a budget crisis brought on by the dot-com bust. For decades, Davis said, Californians have been "papering over this fundamental reality that the state has been living beyond its means."

Davis and many other elected officials bear some responsibility for that. But so do voters.

No the VOTERS really don't,,,NO! Wait! I take that back. You are right. They DO bear some if not most of the responsibility. They keep voting the same type of people into office.

In the Proposition 13 tax rebellion of 1978, Californians voted to require a two-thirds approval by the Legislature to raise taxes, a major obstacle to budget agreements. Over the last couple of decades, voters have also passed a patchwork of ballot measures directing billions of dollars to favorite causes, among them public schools and transportation projects.

What??? "Favorite causes?" "Public schools" and infrastructure? Idiot.

On Tuesday, Californians showed they were unwilling to scale back their demands in tight times: Voters turned down propositions that would have freed up money that they set aside years ago for mental-health and children's programs.

They always use kids. That is a favorite game by most Libs.

"The irony is that the more the hands of the Legislature and governor are tied up, the more frustrated people are," said Tim Hodson, director of the Center for California Studies at Cal State Sacramento.

Together, voters' piecemeal decisions since the 1970s have effectively "emasculated the Legislature," said John Allswang, a retired Cal State L.A. history professor.

Do you see where this is going? Stay with me folks.

"They're looking for cheap answers -- throw the guys out of power and put somebody else in, or just blame the politicians and pretend you don't have to raise taxes when you need money," he said.

"This is what the public wants, and they deceive themselves constantly. They're not realistic."

YOUR RIGHT! Vote DIFFERENT people in there that understand that SPENDING WISELY means more money to spend. It means that there is no mess to clean up afterwards.

The public's contradictory impulses were laid bare by a recent Field Poll. It found that voters oppose cutbacks in 10 of 12 major categories of state spending, including the biggest, education and healthcare. Yet most voters were unwilling to have their own taxes increased, and they overwhelmingly favored keeping the two-thirds requirement for tax hikes.

"They clearly want more in services than they're willing to pay for in taxes," said Ethan Rarick, director of the Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service at UC Berkeley.

Completely misleading and false. Yes. They do not want cuts in Education or Healthcare. They want cuts in insanity. Cuts in programs that the State has no business in using funds for. Cuts in waste. Cuts in Politicians pet projects that only benefit a small Minority, or those that do not belong here and have no LEGAL right to receive what they are receiving. This really is not rocket science here.

Also intensifying California's troubles is a surge in debt, often with voter consent at the ballot box, which makes future budgets harder and harder to balance. Under Davis, outstanding general-obligation debt jumped from $26 billion to $37 billion; it has soared to more than $70 billion under Schwarzenegger, according to the state treasurer's office.

Adding to the state's difficulties is the complexity of many ballot measures, no doubt a factor in the defeat of the main budget measures that lawmakers put before voters Tuesday.

"We pay the legislators to go to Sacramento and figure these things out," said Denise Spooner, a lecturer on California history at Cal State Fullerton.

As for the cumulative problems created by the last few decades of ballot-measure voting, she said, "I certainly don't think this is what the Progressives had in mind."

To John Hein, a veteran Sacramento campaign consultant, the absence of any master vision by voters appears to be a key flaw in the state's recent history with ballot measures.

"They kind of take each issue in a microcosm, rather than relate the decision to prior decisions, or future decisions that they might make," he said. "Voters don't think about the consequences of how one thing fits with another."

Like who they vote for in the first place. I'll agree with that.

Others point to the term limits that voters imposed on state officials in 1990 as an enduring problem. Lawmakers who focus on quick career advancement tend to neglect California's long-term problems, they say.

So term limits are bad as well?

Whatever the ups and downs of the proposition system, California's voters have seen themselves for a full century as "the arbiters of the future of the state," said social historian D.J. Waldie. To Waldie, the grim circumstances of Tuesday's election suggest that they are losing faith in any grand ambitions for public investment in California's future.

"I'm rather pessimistic at this point," he said. "We're reaching the point where Californians are throwing in the towel."

Talk about time for a change. Right? This is why people like this idiot, and others in the MMD are so upset about this vote. California is a mini version of what Obama wants to do Country wide. This is what the Liberals always want to do. Spend whatever they want and have someone else fix the problem down the road. But neither this reporter, nor others, are blaming those in power for screwing things up. They blame the Voters.

It is bad that they can vote down taxes. It is bad that they can vote for term limits. They are causing these problems. If the Voters did not have this power things would be so much better. Get the point?

They do not like the Voters in charge. They do not like the power YOU have. They want it all. They want you to be good little citizens and just go with whatever they tell you. While you still have the power, I suggest you follow California Voter's lead. Put balance back in Washington and slow down this freight train ride toward full fledged Socialism before it is to late.
Peter

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LA Times - California voters exercise their power -- and that's the problem