Posted on 03/15/2012 4:01:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
If this gets on the ballot, unions (mostly public) will spend hundreds of millions of $ to defeat it. The full-time, bought and paid for CA legislature is a huge gravy train for them.
One of the channels this week was talking about the welfare numbers & they said that California has over HALF of the welfare recipients!!!
Glad I left there after 40 years.
Nevada does the same. I think for 120 days only. Any ‘overage’ isn’t paid to politicians, either.
They want that bullet train, or any other major project financed by combinations of public, and private investment solely for the purpose of setting that money into motion under guise of a project. Once that money is “legitimately” set into motion it is difficult to track every penny, and easy as can be to pocket a considerable amount from the rapidly moving monetary exchanges. “They” report in the end “cost overruns”. Nobody goes to jail.”””””
There is a big reason why Warren Buffett bought out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, IMO.
Also note the proposed route of the so-called bullet train (which keeps changing) is from nowhere to nowhere.
Chowchilla to Bakersfield? Only those going to visit prison inmates in Chowchilla will ride the thing. It will NEVER be viable, it will NEVER pay for itself.
Now the proposal is to have the bullet train go straight up the San Joaquin Valley, the advocates for this outrage and monstrosity claiming that “millions of people will be moving to the San Joaquin Valley in the next decades.” Nevermind that there are no JOBS there and that the SJV is agricultural, with lousy Hispanic majority schools and neighborhoods and businesses are fleeing Cal, not setting up here due to a hostile business climate.
We left California after living there for 39 years.
The legislative passes so many insane laws.
Someone asked Who elects them?
I don’t know. I suspect significant voter fraud.
Also note the proposed route of the so-called bullet train (which keeps changing) is from nowhere to nowhere.
Chowchilla to Bakersfield? Only those going to visit prison inmates in Chowchilla will ride the thing. It will NEVER be viable, it will NEVER pay for itself.
Now the proposal is to have the bullet train go straight up the San Joaquin Valley, the advocates for this outrage and monstrosity claiming that “millions of people will be moving to the San Joaquin Valley in the next decades.” Nevermind that there are no JOBS there and that the SJV is agricultural, with lousy Hispanic majority schools and neighborhoods and businesses are fleeing Cal, not setting up here due to a hostile business climate.
Historically, some of them have been very good at it. Eichmann, for instance.
If Michael Reagan can’t see a difference between someone from Des Moines - a US citizen, and someone from Juarez- an illegal, then he’s not worth messing with any more.
Go find Chuck deVore’s column “California vs Texas” instead.
I love the every other year thing.
It’s not clear to me that he can’t see a difference between a citizen and an illegal. What I hear him saying is the leftist response to illegals is what has caused the problem. If the laws as they were in 1965 were inforced as written, illegals would not be a problem. The liberals in Clownifornia decided not to enforce the law and, instead, voted to extend an endless stream of unpaid for benefits to illegals and others. It is the state government and the leftists who put them there that are the problem that will destroy the place.
California’s public unions seeking excessive tax dollars are the main source for funds for Democrat pols’ campaigning nationally.
A BK California. Whatever. It’s all in the plan.
Collateral damage.
I remember that not too long ago he seemed to defend amnesty “like his dad” even though Ronald Reagan admitted it had been a big mistake.
That isn’t quite accurate.
First, the federal government controls immigration and when they refuse to enforce the law the state doesn’t have a lot recourse. Ask Arizona...
Second, California voters have repeatedly tried to stop payments to illegals, remember prop 187?, and the Federal courts repeatedly strike them down.
Federal judges are nominated by presidents. How often has California’s electoral votes gone to democrats? You reap what you sow.
The same can be said for the country.
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