Shriver: Most Californians don't want budget cuts

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

[Joan Kerrey]

66% of Californians say you’re wrong. -------------------- Can you believe these legislators? It couldn't be clearer what Californians want. They are either in denial or deaf and blind. Jeez, I can't believe these people!!!!

[meadsjn]

66% of Californians say you’re wrong. ?

66% ?? Why, that's almost half!!!

[texrepub76]

I’m sure the tooth fairy will bring more

[Kozy]

I'm in San Diego and hope that I can see the train wreck when it happens in Sacramento. By the way Maria, go eat a double cheese burger, you look frightening.
I am tired of being a financial slave to the rich teachers and state employees of this state. I want repartitions.
I am making plans to exit the state and be free from the tax masters in Sacramento.

[texrepub76]

Well said. I love visiting California and living in Texas.

[Seruzawa]

Ha! I predicted this exactly a few weeks back when the Kalif voters rejected those propositions and a bunch of pundits thought it meant a shift to the political right. I predicted that, no, they aren’t shifting to the right, they still want all the free stuff they just don’t want to pay for it. LOL. I was right for once. Hallelujah!

I used to live there (1948-1982). I know those people. They are in lala-land.

[pnh102]

The people voted recently in a special election which said it all. Cut spending, PERIOD.

The special election, from what I know, was only about raising taxes to pay for existing things. I don't remember any questions relating to cutting spending.

[Pru]

We here in CA don't want our services and school budget cut. Most of us in the private sector would jettison those bloated pensions for public sector crowd. They voted themselves a 33% raise about 8 years ago. Most of these folks retire at 50 something with more money per year than they made while working. Get a clue Maria!!!

[Joan Kerrey]

was only about raising taxes

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exactly and all 4 props, which would raise taxes, were soundly defeated. That would indicated a desire for the only other thing possible to balance the budget. Cut Spending. Pretty clear to me.

[sfvgto]

what services? Last week the cops set up a check point to ticket cars that had window tint that was determined to be too dark....they even gave tickets to people with factory tint. Now that’s a service I can do without.

[Califreak]

Umm-most of those who are paying are not personally enjoying these “services”, so why should they want to pay more?

[dalereed]

Shut up you communist bitch!

[Mr Rogers]

Yep, just the other day I was pumping gas in Barstow, and saw Maria Shriver filling her Humvee up.

“Hey, Mare!”, I shouted, “Don’t cut anything!”

Riigghhtttt.

But then, I bumped into her while buying some oats at the feed store...

[pnh102]

That would indicated a desire for the only other thing possible to balance the budget. Cut Spending. Pretty clear to me.

The problem is that while we see a clear dichotomy between lowering spending and tax cuts, the fiscal liberals (of which there are many in the GOP too) do not. They believe you can spend into oblivion without having to worry about taxes... because only the evil rich will pay those.

Liberals are like us in that they hate paying taxes too. But unlike us, they love to spend, spend and spend other peoples' money. I guarantee you, if those propositions were about reductions in specific areas of spending, all would have been defeated.

[WOBBLY BOB]

CA: Never-ending assault - ‘Job-killer’ bills before Legislature defy comprehension

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/26/mz1ed26top194745-never-ending-assault/?opinion

State weighing cost-cutting plan to release 38,000 inmates[California]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/california-budget.html

broke,criminals let loose and no guns for honest citizens.
sounds like a libtard-created utopia.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I proposed a different way to address this a while back. Some witty individual could make an Internet game for Californians. The game has two parts.

The first part lists all the things the State pays for, quite a grocery list.
The second part lists all the ways the State brings in income, such as taxes, fines and fees.

While you select what you think the State should pay for, and how they should get the money to pay for it, there is a running tally. The objective of the game is to end up with $0, a balanced budget. And the game only ends when the tally is $0.

The more people that play the game to its conclusion, the better of an idea everyone has of what are the really popular budget items, and more importantly, the unpopular budget items.

Of course, there will be some people who think that everybody who earns a living should give all their money to those who don’t work, and nonsense like that. But that is tallied in as well.

[Harley]

You don’t have to be real smart to figure out the California 2009-10 budget. After a quick perusal at the on line proposed budget, I noted that 30% goes to K-12 education, another 10% goes to Higher Education and 28% goes to Health and Human Services. So about 68% of the budget in these 3 areas make up the fat. Arnold, its time to get out the chain saw and start cutting out the pieces that you can live without. Take the ones that you must have and start combining them. There’s going to be a lot of state workers that are going to complain that you are giving them too much work to do. If they don’t like it they can vote with their feet. Where else are they going to get a job that all they do all day is chat on their phones and surf the Internet? Also, cut the services to people that have no entitlement to them. I think we know who they are. Not surprising, the most positions (jobs) in the Health and Human Service area are allocated to Mental Health.

[karnage]

Shut down state gubmint n fire every state gubmint employee n cut all pensions by 50% or more if needed. California will function better with fewer bureaucrats and lower taxes.

[patton]

Cool idea. The game needs to include tax avoidance.

[BlueNgold]

I’ve been saying this for months - everyone wants budget cuts, just not for things that effect them, their kids, their neighbors - cut someone else’s services...

It’s rather annoying. Even self described conservatives and repubs are guilty of this astonishing piece of intellectual dishonesty.