California Spirals Downward, the madness continues

California’s long spiral downward….could get worse,

Ok so it’s July and well we are still here, we are still alive, maybe not alive and kicking, but alive none the less.  However, every day I just have to shake my head and wonder where the heck we get our state legislators?  What world do they live in?  Do they not see what we see?  Can they not understand what they are trying to do and have done is only going to make it worse?

The sad answer to all these questions is NO.  The far left have run this sate and have been in control of ALL levels of this state for a long, long time.  What do they have to show for it?  Well let us see:

The lowest rated schools in the nation

One of the Highest income tax rates in the country

Unbearable worker’s comp rates

Extremely unfriendly business environment

Highest paid school administrators in the country

WAY WAY WAY too much Union control over every aspect of our lives

Highest Sales Tax in the country

Some of the highest DMV rates in the country

Lowest pass rate on the high school exit exam in the country (not a surprise why they canceled it and no longer want to give it)

One of the highest illegal alien population in the country (And don’t just think it’s all from Mexico (all you minutemen out there))

High corporation taxes

High estate tax rates

High capital gains rate taxes

Highest total of Gas taxes

WE ALREADY HAVE A CAP AND TRADE FAILURE ON ENERGY in this state (we had it for years and it has only made energy MORE costly and raised our taxes on it)

High property tax and property transfer fees and taxes as well as codes in order to sell your home.

Unlicensed and unregulated Department of corporations finance lenders throughout the state

The largest most bloated constitution in the country AND we even beat out some countries for length

Rampant welfare fraud, worker’s comp fraud, medi-cal fraud, insurance fraud

With all this and much more, what is Sacramento democrats, and their union thugs want now?  More taxes….oh, oh, sorry they call it “Revenue”, and they don’t want to really cut spending at all.  Sure they want to threaten that they’ll cut emergency services or throw poor children out into the street.  Will they cut their own salaries?  Cut their staff?  Cutoff all their own perks (such as travel, hotel, food, car expenses, personal phones, personal assistants, and vacation pay)?   No, will they cut back on the per-dium and salaries paid to the thousands of board and committee members?

Assembly woman Noreen Evans a few days ago before a conference committee on the budget. “This mantra out there ‘live within our means,’ while it sounds really nice, while it sounds really simple and it sounds really responsible, it’s meaningless”

They want to say that they don’t want to hurt the poor and yet they raise sales taxes, they raise DMV fees, and they raise gas taxes, ALL of which hurt the poor, and everyone I might add.  They don’t want to cut their own salaries and perks and yet they want us to sacrifice.  They don’t want to live within their means and yet we are expected to when really no one can right now.

It is bad, and by all accounts when the legislators call up the union bosses to get their marching orders ( http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/034764.html ) , and the legislators DON’T live in the real world, it is only going to get worse before it gets better.  There are calls for a constitutional convention (I am all for it), and a call for their heads to be put on a stick.  We unfortunately have a congress who also believe that they only way to save us all, is for us to sacrifice more and pay more taxes,  spend trillions more money, increase our national debt by 4 fold, and have the government control even more of our lives and our industries (they now run the automobile industry, own all the major banks, want to own and control energy, oil, and gas, and soon want to take over our health care system).  We all need to stop, regroup and find out what makes us special, what makes us special is simple, we’re Americans, not Europeans, we founded this country on get the government the heck out of our way and stop taxing us to death.  However, recently (EVEN G.W. is to blame) our governments have decided that more government control, more government programs, more government spending, and to pay for it more revenue (taxes) is the answer.

We need to look to what works in this country and let individuals take control of their destiny, and fortunes.  We Californians have been known for some serious innovation and true grit and gumption in the past.  We need to start with what we know is true, that government is not our solution it is our problem (as someone said in the past (hmm A Californian too)), kick the circus out of Sacramento, and start all over.  We have to acknowledge our failures, acknowledge that recently we took for granted all that we were supposedly earning in the real estate market, and know that we cannot do business the same again.  We cannot raise taxes and expect the economy to turn around.  We need to tighten our belts and see government for what it is, and what it is not, and see where the gap is.  Here is another great article showing California’s problems …. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13990207

Let us revolt, feel patriotic again, and gain some self control back! Good luck everyone and I hope we all can find a solution to all that ails us in this Golde

Comments

[Daniel Cuthbert]

I agree with the statements above, however I would like to pose a question to this comment,"We have to acknowledge our failures, acknowledge that recently we took for granted all that we were supposedly earning in the real estate market, and know that we cannot do business the same again." In the spirit of free enterprise shouldn't we take advantage of the the market and earn income while the opportunity existed? Success and failure is based on the risk that we take. That being said, what about all the agents that entered the realestate market during this time and made alot of quick cash and are now among the list of the unemployed. There is a point where we all must take responsibility for our actions. We reap when the harvest is plentiful and hopefully we have prepared for times of famine. If we have not prepared we fail. In my humble opionion government bailouts, fees, revenue streams, etc. could be simply stated as legislative theft. After all, whos' money is it?

[Cherie Doughty]

Wonderful rant. So many American have strayed away from what this country was founded on. At one point in time almost everyone actual had to get off their butts and work for a living. Whether or not your job paid well, you had to work in order to eat. Now we have so many people with there hands out looking for the government (our tax dollars) to support them. How many illegal immigrants do you think are in the U.S. receiving funds for food, housing, and medical care? And how many government agencies and people does our government have to employ to run these agencies. Not only are we handing out billions of dollars in free care, we have to pay people to run it all.

[Jennifer Mayes]

Wow, i completely agree. They want more money but they don't stop spending OUR money when the rest of California Struggles day to day.