On 5/31/2012 1:20 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
writes:

The people who "actually live there" elected the politicians who created
California's fiscal problems in the first place. Unarguably, they are as
(ir)responsible as the politicians.

Actually a large part of the current financial difficulties in the state
are due to the proposition process, which is so-called "direct democracy",
starting with proposition 13 and continuing through hundreds of bond
propositions that disengeniously claim that the bond won't raise taxes
(even tho they are mostly paided from the general fund).

The rest is due to political inaction due to political parties on both
sides forgetting that compromise is the heart of politics.

One wonders if the state would have a better budgetary condition if
Pete Wilson hadn't reduced the vehicle license fee, which when it was
restored cause the Davis recall leading to the Schwartzenegger administration,
during which the budget just got worse.


AAMOF, it will be exactly the contrary ... denial in it's most egregious
form ... as we see here.

I disputed that "droves" of people were leaving california. And in
fact, droves of people aren't leaving california, the only cite that was
provided indicates that there were 200,000 people per year imbalance between
migrations from california and migrations to california within the US. In state of
35 million people, that's not a drove. The there was no evidence provided
as to _why_ that imbalance exists.

Nobody in california denies that there are currently budgetary problems.

Nobody in california particularly cares what you think.

California's state, California's problems. Butt out, or someome might
start spouting nonsense about the armpit of texas, houston.

scott

Scott, you are what we use to call a squirrel.