Shriver: Most Californians don't want budget cuts

AP via SacBee ^ | 6/24/9 | JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press Writer

[Costumed Vigilante]

1) Most California residents are Mexican nationals, so their opinion on American state spending doesn't count.

2) This is a manufactured statistic, just like ABC's Obama healthcare approval rating.

3) Most people want gravity to be about 50% of what it is now, and would like to poop gold. Who cares?

[hoosierham]

This is simply the result of people believing money comes from the government.After all,how hard can it be to print more?

[ex91B10]

It would have been a good touch, but I’m a little lazy today!

[pnh102]

66% of Californians say you’re wrong.

Then why do they keep voting for politicians who spend spend spend? Why do the same voters keep voting for costly ballot measures over and over and over?

No one likes to pay for things. The only difference between us and them is that we understand that we cannot get things for which we do not pay.

[SmithL]

You are correct. Californians, by-and-large, are fine with tax increases on OTHER people, and budget cuts for programs that they don’t use.

[PapaBear3625]

The middle class is telling her: don’t cut things that the middle class needs, like education, cut welfare instead. But she chooses not to listen.

[MrB]

I use that a lot, and it drives libs mad.

“We have to help X”

“What’s stopping YOU?”

[wmileo]

If this is true then most Californians are worthless slugs!

I don't think it is true however. Maria Shriver is as full of $HIT as any Kennedy you might run in to (or get run over by).

[Centurion2000]

"Don't close the parks, don't cut from education, don't cut from health care, don't cut from anything," said Shriver

Start cutting some checks b*tch or STFU.

[catbertz]

Maria, honey..Please tell your old man that I’ll help cut some fat out of the budget. Let me just tune up the ole chainsaw and I’ll swing by!

[Lancey Howard]

Californians seem to want it all, says first lady Maria Shriver. They oppose billions of dollars in cuts to address the state's massive budget deficit but are not willing to pay more for the services they enjoy.

Shriver is a typical liberal moron, utterly incapable of thinking logically or in any linear fashion. California's parasites don't want cuts. California's taxpayers don't want more taxes. These are two totally distinct groups of Californians, with only a slight overlap resulting from craven stupidity.

[bestintxas]

“I’ve got to get the hell out of this state”

I spent three years in CA until I was able to move to Texas.

I have a lot more disposable money now.

You are welcome (as long as you are legal).

[passionfruit]

Maria Shriver didn’t check with “most Californians”. She didn’t check with me or anyone I know. I’ll send her an email if I can find her email address just to set her straight.

[danamco]

Pres. Obama meets tomorrow with a bi-partisan group from Congress to “jump-start” plans to pass a giant amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens.

[fr_freak]

Californians seem to want it all, says first lady Maria Shriver. They oppose billions of dollars in cuts to address the state's massive budget deficit but are not willing to pay more for the services they enjoy.

This is a lie. The only people that Shriver and Arnold are hearing from are the special interest groups - unions, envirowhackjobs, etc. The average Californian would be just fine with cutting all of the crap in the budget. Another part of the lie is that when the California politicians talk about cutting the budget, they always go after the core services first - police, fire, etc., instead of the useless pork departments and programs, because they really don't want to cut anything, and they figure if they threaten the few things that are actually worth paying for, they will scare all of the taxpayers into approving new taxes.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Pres. Obama meets tomorrow with a bi-partisan group from Congress to “jump-start” plans to pass a giant amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens.”

Who will then vote for Nationalized health care.

[RC2]

Do they not understand that if they don’t cut back, raise taxes, remove illegals......companies will move out of the State. That means fewer jobs and less tax revenue. Don’t they get it?

[Selene]

WRONG Maria
You have no idea what Californians want because you live in a bubble

[Joan Kerrey]

They oppose billions of dollars in cuts to address the state’s massive budget deficit but are not willing to pay more for the services they enjoy.

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Who is she referring to? I don’t oppose the billions in cuts and I’m not willing to pay more for services I don’t receive and don’t want. I think the recent special election vote said it all what Californians want. It couldn’t be clearer to anyone but the blind and deaf legislators.

[Joan Kerrey]

people in California want everything for free.

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I don’t read it that way at all. The people voted recently in a special election which said it all. Cut spending, PERIOD. That doesn’t sound like wanting everything for free. I’d say it sounds like they don’t want everything that rammed down our throats whether we like it or not and then get charged 200 to 300% more than ‘everything’ should cost. We’re tired of getting ripped off by programs we don’t want and that few of us benefit from.