Posted on 11/27/2008 10:18:01 AM PST by NormsRevenge
As the final embarrassing days of California's special legislative session slip away with no state budget solution in sight, the 40 members of the state Senate and 80 members of the Assembly have once again proved the wisdom of my call to abolish the Legislature. They are a worthless group that individually and collectively have ignored the state's toughest problems. On Tuesday's budget vote, some lawmakers didn't even bother to show up.
The Democrats' budget bill didn't get the required two-thirds votes to pass and the Republicans didn't offer up an alternative. This is the best our lawmakers can offer: A budget bill that had no chance of passing, and childish sniping by both sides.
The Democrats wouldn't even fix sick leave and overtime abuse that costs the state close to $100 million a year, and the Republicans could have had their spending cap, but they changed their demand to an "economic stimulus," which showed they weren't serious about getting a budget agreement in the first place.
Meanwhile, the budget gap grows, and California could run out of money in February. Right now, the deficit will be about $28 billion over the next 20 months. State government is going to collapse and legislators can't get out of town soon enough. Good idea. Let's get rid of them all.
The so-called Big Five - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Senate President Pro Tem-designate Darrell Steinberg, Assembly Minority Leader Mike Villines and Senate Minority Leader Dave Cogdill - must be very proud. Their leadership has given Californians a Big Fat Nothing. They are presiding over the bankruptcy of California.
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Ah, yes, the California Lege...the poster children for the Seventeenth Amendment.
Good! The less they "do" the less damage they can cause. You gotta know that whatever they pass will only spend more money we don't have and enact regulations that reduce revenue to the state treasury and deprive us of more freedoms.
“No mans life liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session”
Mark Twain
Here we are! Do you feel better yet?
As much as Willie Brown was a crook, he was THEIR crook, and he was a competent crook. It beats what we've got now, a claque of paper cut-outs representing goodness knows whom.
One house legislature. Meets 6 months every other year, unless there's a real emergency.
No benefits to illegal aliens (save $14 billion a year).
No state funds to sanctuary cities.
Stop all the gorebull warming nonsense and eliminate the state capital gain tax.
Privatize two prisons to save money. Rinse and repeat.
Vouchers
And that's just the first year.
That Mark Twain was one smart cookie.
Geez, that's about the burn rate for GM over the next 10-12 months.
....good luck with that....:(
Also, declare bankruptcy, invalidate every contract that the state has with public employee unions. Perhaps put new alternative contracts on the ballot with specific amounts of per capita tax that each one will cost, and a detailed list of the salaries and benefits that in the contracts, and let the people choose how much they are willing to pay for.
BTW Jerry Brown signed the state employee collective bargaining legislation just before midnight on his last day in office.
California is far past having any sort of “reset” button.
It’s only a matter of time.
North Dakota’s state legislature meets for 60 days (working days) every other year-the January after the previous November election. The state House and Senate each actually have only about thirty legislative days to get their work done-the bills cross over to the group for consideration.
They get it done!
IIRC correctly Kentucky is every other year and Nebraska is one-house? Anybody?
Yes Nebraska has a one house legislature.
Thanx................giving
Okay, so which Schwarzenegger-adoring pubbie legislator added this nonsense?
When Ca. citizens continue to elect the same naifs year after year and still get deficits , horrid social welfare programs, stuff for illegals, liberal secularists trying to change our heritage, of the same Democrat Party , it is now an act of madness, insanity. Liberals , in fact, are insane and do not think it so they do the same old tiresome socialist pacifist things decade after decade and it still doesn’t work! And Arnold is no better nowadays.
ND’s legislature also happens to be Republican.
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