He really is the Terminator, isn't he?
If you thought the class warriors had gotten their inner turmoil out of their system during the Contract With America, then you don't know just how much indignation they manage to fit into their heads.
Even today, it continues under California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now the governor plans to completely abolish welfare, medical insurance for poor kids, and college tuition assistance.
The excuse is that these cuts would help ease the state's budget deficit. Yet handouts to big corporations and tax breaks for the very rich continue unabated. Right-wingers of every faction also waste taxpayer money every time they throw a fit about things not going their way and expect state dollars to be spent soothing them.
Furthermore, the prison industry is so big in California that it gets billions of dollars a year. If the state needs to cut something, why not that?
And Schwarzenegger gave his cronies patronage jobs paying 6-digit salaries!
So this budget excuse is just that. An excuse.
Is Grover Norquist secretly advising the governor?
(Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=450540&mesg_id=450540)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Schwarzenegger steps up war on poor
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California is broke and unlike the Imperial Federal Government, it can't just borrow money from Red China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia to be repaid later by Americans who haven't even been born yet. When there's no money, you can't spend it, and considering government's first job is to protect the People, not provide for the People, closing prisons and letting criminals out isn't such a good idea.
ReplyDeleteRight. When there's no money, you can't spend it on 6-figure salaries for political cronies. You can't spend it on $11,000,000,000 annual handouts to the "corrections" industry.
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