It's too bad that conservatives in the legislature there made it nearly impossible many years ago to raise taxes, otherwise they might have had an easy way out of the mess they created.
Cut what though? They are already cutting stuff in CA, and it's not frivolous stuff... it's stuff like closing parks and cutting library hours and firing state employees and letting public works projects sit untouched. What should be cut? Close some schools maybe? No one seems to have any good suggestions in this regard.
And FYI, controlling that border costs money. And all those Republicans in Orange County (and elsewhere) complain the loudest about immigrants, but who is doing the landscaping on their mansions? Hint: It's not them. Such hypocrisy.
Then play the game. (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-statebudget-fl,0,95571.htmlstory)
When I was done cutting, California was running at a surplus with no tax increases. Of course, the taxtakers don't like it when the taxpayers complain.
no. There's nothing left to cut. California has backed itself into a corner. What they need to do is overturn the law so that they can operate in a deficit, and stop issuing IOUs.
Accuracy, please. What you mean to say is "Cut spending on all those socialist liberal programs. Increase spending on good proper American conservative things like controlling the border, because that's a huge hot button topic us conservatives use to rile up our legion of ditto-head followers."
"Controlling the border" would ruin California's agriculture system. Find me a couple thousand white people willing to work the fields for below minimum wage and we'll talk.
In an ideal world, yes. The sad reality is that work permits require rules. Rules the UNITED STATES agriculture business often doesn't want to have to follow, like 5 day work weeks, overtime pay and worker's comp.
You say this stuff like it's easy, but you clearly don't understand how the food you eat actually arrives at your table.
Such claims have been made before. In the 1880s, when there were proposals to stop Chinese immigration to California, farmers responded that without Chinese farmworkers "there would not now be one fruit tree or grape vine in the state where there are now 10."
Likewise, in the early 1960s, during hearings in California on the proposed termination of the Bracero program, tomato farmers claimed that "the use of braceros is absolutely essential to the survival of the tomato industry." Congress discontinued the program anyway, and the results were not at all as the farmers had claimed; University of California economist Philip Martin has shown that with fewer workers available, the harvest was increasingly mechanized, resulting in a quadrupling of production over the next 30 years of tomatoes for processing, and a fall in real prices. http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back801.html
you see people here do live in completely different realities. In one reality spending 16.1 million dollars to save some stupid mice is outermost importance and cute. In another it's a complete waste of money during financial turmoil.
As for the title I think you are familiar with the expression "excuse my french" ;)
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Date: 2009-07-10 09:26 pm (UTC)Old, fuzzy poop.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:13 pm (UTC)And FYI, controlling that border costs money. And all those Republicans in Orange County (and elsewhere) complain the loudest about immigrants, but who is doing the landscaping on their mansions? Hint: It's not them. Such hypocrisy.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:29 pm (UTC)When I was done cutting, California was running at a surplus with no tax increases. Of course, the taxtakers don't like it when the taxpayers complain.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:34 pm (UTC)But here's a video for you about children:
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:41 pm (UTC)Anyway, the video, though funny wasn't what I was looking for. Here's the exact audio clip: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/704824/
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:17 pm (UTC)There, fixed it for ya.
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Date: 2009-07-11 03:17 am (UTC)You say this stuff like it's easy, but you clearly don't understand how the food you eat actually arrives at your table.
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Date: 2009-07-11 03:26 am (UTC)Likewise, in the early 1960s, during hearings in California on the proposed termination of the Bracero program, tomato farmers claimed that "the use of braceros is absolutely essential to the survival of the tomato industry." Congress discontinued the program anyway, and the results were not at all as the farmers had claimed; University of California economist Philip Martin has shown that with fewer workers available, the harvest was increasingly mechanized, resulting in a quadrupling of production over the next 30 years of tomatoes for processing, and a fall in real prices.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back801.html
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Date: 2009-07-11 03:57 am (UTC)As for the title I think you are familiar with the expression "excuse my french" ;)
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