Well, California voters shot down all of Ahhhnold's latest attempts to restore some sort of fiscal sanity, so this means firefighters will be let go, schools will be shut, and a host of other things previously mentioned in the news...and right before summer fire season starts.
Let's also not for get the 40,000 or so prisoners he wants to let loose, along with the layoff of untold police officers.
See what happens when voters learn how to vote themselves largesse? They've voted Utopia for themselves in California, and now they have it at the expense of some other really important stuff. Liberal expediency in action.
I hope they enjoy their free health care, their almost free colleges, their illegal alien havens, and their low property taxes, because that's all they're going to have to their names after the fires move through.
UPDATE: Now California's engaging in Tea Parties of their own--now they get it! Unfortunately, they don't get that you can't have Utopia without a plan to pay for it...and, of course, they don't want to pay for it.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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I predict a bit of an exodus this summer of those who even smack of a middle class income. More and more will be unwilling to shoulder weighty taxes and stifling laws to pay for those who either can't or won't take personal responsibility. Unfortunately, voting habits die hard and they'll carry voting stupidity into whatever fiscally-sane state they settle in.
Michelle
Yes...just like the Boomers moved like locusts into Colorado and took over Denver, or swarmed into Nevada and over-populated THAT desert with their on-demand comfort (just look at Las Vegas's unsold and foreclosed housing inventories!).
The recession of the 70's sent Californians into Arizona, rendering it unaffordable for most of the population, as well as Oregon and Washington State. Now the entire country west of the Rockies is pretty much unaffordable unless you make more than $75k/year.
I myself got out of CA in the 80's, but boy did I get out--the navy sent us to Florida, then Virginia, then Italy, then Texas, and now back to Virginia. I'd like to get somewhere closer to the Mississippi River (where cost-of-living is lowest), but good luck finding jobs!
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