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Citizens are allowed to vote for the government they wish, and they did.
California is broke after slashing the budget repeatedly while the GOP opposed new revenue increases. They have cut to the bone and beyond, to the point where essential services are being shut down. They went from lean and mean, to starving and dying, waiting for the deferred decision the GOP punted since 2009.
You made my day with that comment. I'm always up for a good laugh.
Why is anyone going on about gasoline taxes? Don't like 'em: Stop using so much gasoline! It's a scarce, non-renewable, polluting resource, dependence on which weakens the nation rather than strengthens it.
It's not like anyone has jobs in CA, anyway.
You do know that the reason the tax was increased is because people had "stopped using so much"?
Businesses and consumers use gas, and having to pay more will severely impact the state even more.
wha??????
We could end the issue of oil but the *******s refuse to drill in this country.
Private land drilling is on the increase even in CA. I happen to be a liberal who is for the drilling on private land. Gov Brown is also pretty open to drilling/fracking in CA. Doesn't hurt that Occidental Petroleum donated money to prop 30.
Bloated salaries of the administrators - not so much.
At the executive level. The random rank and file have not seen any bloating of their salaries. I have gotten a measly 3% raise in 5 years of which they took back 1.5% for pension increases the day they gave it.
Citizens are allowed to vote for the government they wish, and they did.
California is broke after slashing the budget repeatedly while the GOP opposed new [b][revenue increases. /B] They have cut to the bone and beyond, to the point where essential services are being shut down. They went from lean and mean, to starving and dying, waiting for the deferred decision the GOP punted since 2009.
Why not call it what it really is... tax hikes. I guess "revenue increases" sounds better.
Originally Posted by steven_h View Post
I live here all my life, and we were bankrupted BY LIBERALS.
The GOP?
We've not had a conservative state in more than 40 years! You are hallucinating if you believe Cali is bankrupt because of the GOP!!! This is proof of just how disconnected some of you people really are!
Blaming the situation in California on the GOP... BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that's the most disconnected attempt at blame throwing I've ever seen in this dive.
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Originally Posted by petch751
Just like Illinois, also controlled by Democrats.
Illinois is the most Democrat-dominated state in the union, measured by the party’s control over state government and its votes for U.S. Senate and president. The Democrats have controlled the governor’s mansion and both houses of the legislature since January 2003.
Illinois -> Democrats -> Broke
Yet this gnome (OP) posts that it's the GOP? The only thing I find more incredible than his pretense is the fact that many people in here believe the same lie. The RNC is bad, but the DNC has become rancid.
The fact that these bots even try to differentiate between Bush and Obama is amazing at the very least. It's like rooting for a 20 yard run and booing a 20 yard pass. They both share the same result, just like Obama and GWBush.
Obama IS Bush on steroids. The left are hypocrites for backing this tyrant just because he's mulatto and wears a D on his sheepskin.
Private land drilling is on the increase even in CA. I happen to be a liberal who is for the drilling on private land. Gov Brown is also pretty open to drilling/fracking in CA. Doesn't hurt that Occidental Petroleum donated money to prop 30.
Brown is going to do what his special interests tell him to do. He is at the mercy of environMENTALists.
These are the people who voted for Brown. Brown has always been a pro-environment (he banned the smell of baking bread!!!) bat$hit crazy moonbeam. If you think Code Pink and Move ON will allow Brown to drill Cali, you will lose that bet.
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