Posted on 05/26/2020 10:20:31 AM PDT by John Semmens
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) says "the federal government has an ethical obligation to bail out my state. Admittedly, we might have been excessively generous in how we spent taxpayers' money. Perhaps this was a mistake. However, there is no need to make the people of California suffer for the miscues of their government. The federal government has an unconstrained power to create money. Failure to use this power to rescue California from bankruptcy would be a crime against humanity."
Among the "miscues" are $1 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities, 15,000 hotel rooms leased to house the homeless along with the cost of drugs to feed their habits while sequestered in these hotels, more than 300,000 state employees drawing six-figure annual salaries, and $125 million in coronavirus unemployment benefits for illegal aliens.
The Governor suggested he would try to motivate Trump to "do the right thing" by "laying off police, health care workers, and fire fighters first. Public employees that Trump would probably consider unnecessary 'dead wood' won't be let go because it wouldn't trouble him one bit. It's only when innocent civilians are put at risk that Republicans can be counted on to take action."
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Newsance is non-essential.
No one has an ethical obligation to bail or a criminal organization that overspends.
After you get rid of them get rid of the totally screwed up pension plans.
If you don’t give me $$$$$, I’m going to shoot my citizens.
Gavin, Gavin, Gavin,
Nobody outside of your crazy ass state cares pal.
Maybe have a bake sale.
Cutbacks on police, fire, and medical. Same old blackmail. They’ve been doing it since the 60’s.
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