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Oh California's government is so inept it ought to be run out of town and new elections held immediately. We Californians are observing this mess with a grim cynicism that may never be wiped off our sun-damaged mugs.
Each year the Democrats and the Republicans fight with each other about the budget in our state and each year it takes months for them to play nicely together and submit a budget to the Governor that can be signed into law. And every year, state contractors are threatened with being paid with IOU's. And every year in the 11th hour and 59th minute before fiscal collapse the two sides come together and each side claims a partial victory and then they go on with passing new and endless laws creating new programs and restrictions and salary and benefit packages they can't afford in the long term. But bottom line is that they don't have the juevos to say no to any special interest with a check in hand.
Each year that this happens, and each year the Governor sounds the warning bell at the Capitol, and each year he sounds like the boy who cried wolf as all the dire predictions don't come true. Problem is this year it seems that the wolf (financial disaster) is really in the flock (budget) and all Arnold's wailing isn't getting the townspeople (the legislators and citizens) to get off their dead asses to do anything about it.
A budget deficit of 26 billion is a lot of dough and I can only imagine that it's going to grow with the level of layoffs that are happening and the pay reductions that are happening and the dropping property values that are continuing down-down-down. It's a disaster and we've only just bounced off the latest ledge on our downward tumble to some unknown bottom.
For all the talk of recovery, California ain't seeing it yet folks and the state government's hideous management of the state finances is only making it worse. The annual mishandling of the budget means that in this fiscal crisis, the walls are tumbling down and the chickens are coming home to roost and they're being eaten by a wolf. Arnold Schwarzzeneger, for all his cries of warning, hasn't proven to be any kind of political terminator because he has failed miserably year-after-year to motivate either party to act in a timely way or to motivate the "people of Caleeeefonia" to respond to the impending crisis.
So, on second thought, let's recall them all and NOT replace them!
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