{GOLDEN STATE} Despite budget deadlock, lawmakers eye monthlong recess

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 6/28/10 | Jim Sanders

[SmithL]

With no budget agreement in sight, California is set to begin a new fiscal year Thursday with a looming $19.1 billion deficit -- and with lawmakers set to leave Sacramento the following day for a monthlong summer recess.

[GeronL]

month-long vacation. What, why not double their pay while their ignoring the elephant in the living room?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Meanwhile, in the real world........

[shield]

Golden State=no rain and dead grass....I was in Monterey, CA for 5 months...and I just laughed when the talk of the golden state came up....I told them here in Texas we hate it when our grass dries up and dies...and turns brown=golden in CA.... HA ;o)

[steve86]

This is good:

DefenderTax1 wrote on 06/28/2010 06:45:42 PM:

Some of the RECENT LEGISLATION BEING PROPOSED BY CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS INSTEAD OF GETTING A BUDGET FINALIZED:

1. $1,000 Fine for Loud T.V. Commercials
2. No Carrying unloaded Fire Arms in Public by Law Abiding Citizens
3. Regulating Loud Motorcycles
4. Gay Rights Day
5. More Green Regulations
6. Outlawing plastic grocery bags
7. Boycotting Arizona
8. Regulating toxics in sewer lines (local municipalities already do this)
9. Creating every new TAX DISGUISED AS A FEE as possible

....and the hits just keep on coming folks.

VOTE ALL THE DEMOCRATS OUT!

PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES, your State Legislator’s are not your own.

It’s been another year WASTED under the CAPITOL ROTUNDA of:

1. Increasing Taxes
2. Pandering to Special Interests
3. Passing Every Nanny Law they can dream up
4. Working on Gay Rights legislation
5. Passing more Business Unfriendly Environmentalist laws
6. Passing more ridiculous Green Mandates (Secret Green Taxes)
7. Avoiding dealing with the budget problem
8. Avoiding making any real cutbacks in government
9. Hiring as more lazy government workers as usual
10. Capitol Sex Stings
11. Giving your Staff Ridiculous Raises (BASS & PEREZ)
12. Worrying about ARIZONA’S LAWS
13. TAKING VACATIONS!

The CAPITOL HAS BECOME A CESSPOOL OF SELF-SERVING, CORRUPT, INEPT, LAZY BUREAUCRATS CAUGHT UP IN SPECIAL INTEREST LEGISLATION AND THEIR OWN AGENDA.

[23 Everest]

Let's take a taxpayer vacation. Stop paying your taxes, all of them. See how fast these A$$holes start doing the people business that actually foot the bill, not the parasites.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Fine with me. I’d pay these guys to stay the hell away from the Capitol so they can’t futz things up more than they already have. That, FRiends, would be money well spent. In fact, let’s consider extending the concept to Washington.

[Amerigomag]

Glad they're going.

The tragedy is the Star Chamber that will proceed during their absence.

To my knowledge, no where in the California Constitution is budgeting/taxation delegated to 5 individuals, purposely excluding most of your elected representatives.

This is simply extra constitution nonsense. It's the epitome of arrogance. It's at the heart of the dysfunction/disconnect in California government.

[Mtn Pass]

Love what you had to say Steve. But, you’re never going to vote the Democrats out in California, you’ve got to many ner-do-wells that they intentionally let in and registered to vote. Over 400,000 of your conservative voters have left the state. All of California is just like that small town of Maywood, California. Sorry.