[stopem]

The Republican governor is pitching Proposition 76, which he calls the "Live Within Our Means Act," as the best way out of California's chronic deficits. But voters appear to lose interest when they learn of the sacrifices that will be needed to allow the state to truly live within its means.

"Live within our means"? Californians don't appear to do that in their personal finances, I am referring to the outrageous cost of housing in California and the folks who are not living within their means but are paying more than their incomes allow for housing by getting the unusual mortgages.

The libs want it all but from what this article implies surprisingly they aren't proposing raising taxes like they did in the past. Interesting. So keep on spending money you don't have?

"Among other things, it attempted to take away renters' tax credits from thousands of senior citizens, eliminate dental care for the poor and charge tens of thousands of low-income Californians premiums to obtain healthcare. It called for slashing the salaries of workers who provide home care to the frail elderly and disabled, and would have reduced state contributions to the pensions of teachers and other public employees.

Eliminate dental care and charge premiums for healthcare, why not? No one pays for my expensive dental care here in Texas. As for healthcare? Taxpayers pay for medicaid to cover healthcare.

California must have one heck of a giveaway package for their citizens, no wonder they are going broke.

[goldstategop]

People in this country live beyond their means. If you ask how they can afford everything on what they have, you'll find them confiding in you they're borrowed to the max and plan to keep borrowing on top of that too. If they do it, why is any one surprised the government also lives beyond its means? Its only behaving as the people who elected it want and if any one wants real cuts in spending, I haven't seen any one actually step forward to demand them.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Proud_USA_Republican]

So keep on spending money you don't have?


Bingo.

[AFPhys]

whew... shades of this all over --- from CA to DC to France & Germany.

We have to get rid of socialist thought and the entitlement mentality pronto, or we'll all be paying the piper with a real, honest-to-God, world-wide depression.