Posts Tagged ‘California’

Schwarzenegger’s Pets and the Lessons They Teach

A few days ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his last “State of the State” address, telling Californians that they can expect even harder times ahead as we face a $20+ billion shortfall in the next year and a half.  Isn’t this the governor who promised to fix Sacramento, never to raise taxes and guaranteed us all [...]

Would You Be Surprised to See This?

Now granted, this is a spoof, as ought to become obvious as you watch, but would you really be surprised to see this kind of idea being put forward by the religious in California?  After all, they came up with Proposition 8, why not go for the full monty crazy?
So sit back, chuckle and hope [...]

Enough pointing fingers, Governator

Now that the people of California have overwhelmingly rejected the tax-raising tactics of the Governator and the liberal legislators, Schwarzenegger has been running around talking doom and gloom, trying to scare everyone at the depth of the cuts that will need to be made.
Yeah, and?  The problem is, he’s not going to be willing to [...]

Going Down in Flames

Yesterday was California’s special election and, as we all knew it would, five of the six propositions fell.  Luckily, the voters were not fooled by the misleading ads and the emotional appeals and they sent the propositions down to utter defeat, 65% saying “HELL NO!”  This is a good thing, as I wrote before, all [...]

Let the Props Fall

With the May 19th special ballot right around the corner, now is the time that absentee-voters, like myself, will start to receive their ballots, so this is the perfect time to address the rest of what’s up for a vote and how I think people ought to think about these propositions.
As I’ve already talked extensively [...]

Exactly Why Do We Need Proposition 1A Again?

In May, we’ll have a special election in California and the first item on the agenda is Proposition 1A, the so-called spending cap bill that establishes a “rainy day fund” and is supposed to stop future wild swings in the budgetary process.
But didn’t we pass Proposition 58 by an overwhelming 71.7% majority back in 2004?  [...]


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