Isn’t being a liberal in power great?
I have to tell you, I was surprised by the results of the California ballot initiatives. Why would the citizens of one of the most blue states in the union decline an opportunity to raise their taxes? But sure enough, not one, but all tax-increasing propositions on the table were flatly rejected by the citizens of the Golden State. Proposition 1A lost in every single county, including Nancy Pelosi’s Bay Area district.
But this is a bittersweet victory. California is run by Leftists, including that disappointment Leftist with the “R” next to his name, Arnold “the fake Republican” Schwartzenegger. To a liberal in power, “The people have spoken” only applies to vote results that they approve. When “the people have spoken” against a liberal government’s agenda, the government says, “F**k the people.” Case in point: The same-sex marriage vote from earlier this year. (I’m not making a judgment about same-sex marriage; I’m just noting that “the people” spoke out against it, but the Ninth Circuit said, “F**k the people.”
So now that even blue California said five times, “No new taxes!!!” Ahnold and the bureaucracy has to go to Plan B: subverting the will of the people. How? By threatening Californians to cut things that government should first and foremost be funding—at the expense of the state’s most vulnerable citizens: children and the needy.
These examples are enumerated at the Black Informant blog:
When government does not get its way, the most vulnerable get targeted
The people of the state of California yesterday to crush propositions that would have raised state taxes. Led by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, this was a last ditch attempt to put taxpayers on the hook for a state bureaucracy that is still growing despite being in the middle of a recession.
Despite freeze, state hired 33,000 workers (2003)
Despite budget shortfall, state government is still hiring (2008)
Editorial: Belt-tightening? State workforce still growing (2009)
Bottom line, despite the fact that the private sector has trimmed thousands of jobs during slow economies, government doesn’t know how to stop growing. And those same workers who have been laid off in the private sector are still on the hook to cover the salaries and benefits of state workers.
This is more than just a game, this is a full blown racket. And like a street gang or the Mafia, if you do not go along with the bully government, something close to you will get hurt.
Right in the middle of the Santa Barbara fires, Gov. Schwarzenegger decided to scare the people of California by saying the following:
“We owe it to the people of California to tell what the consequences are,” he said, adding, “Fire protection, without any doubt, will suffer if the measures don’t pass.”
So if you don’t vote our way, California will burn.
Next target? The children.
Poison-control funds on chopping block
“Don’t count on California’s Poison Control System for help if your child swallows something dangerous—because after September, the state may become the only one in the nation without such services after this week’s special election results, state officials said Wednesday.”
Next target? The poor.
Governor plans to completely eliminate welfare for families
“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to completely eliminate the state’s welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal Grants cash assistance to college and university students.”
Too bad the poor and children come before things like massive building projects for schools that are not needed.
No word on cutting wasteful spending like the following~
“…how General Services and the Department of Corrections and rehabilitation wasted $580,000 by leasing office space for four years that wasn’t being used.
A second chapter tells how General Services wasted $3,000 by paying a private vendor for emergency preparedness training in Los Angeles, even though the California Highway Patrol provides the training free of charge.” (more…)
No word on cutting the process of cutting bad teachers who are covered by union bureaucracy. Meanwhile, taxpayers are stuck paying the salaries, health insurance and health benefits of teachers who are doing nothing.
How detestable. This is the governmental equivalent of holding a low-income child at gunpoint and saying, “Hand over your wallet or she gets it!”
I’m not from California, but being from the corrupt Democrat stronghold of New Jersey is good enough to know what Californians are up against. Ahnold and the bureaucrats will get their tax increases one way or another.
Isn’t being a liberal in power great?
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