By: John Keitel
On H & C this week Newt Gengrich stated that $7 billion of California’s $14.5 billion debt is because wealthy people and their businesses are leave due to high taxes. Arnold Shwarzenegger lost his conservative principles allowing the liberal legislature to continue to raise the taxes on the good citizens of California.
Where was Arnold during the Hollywood writers strike. The strike cost California more than 1 billion in revenues, not to mention the toll on the families of the TV and movie workers. Arnold was silent because he to is a union member, could you call this a conflict of interest!
Arnold was put into office because of the previous Governors lies about the amount of debt California had. Former Gov. Davis said during reelection that the debt was $15 billion when it was really $30 billion and he new that before the election.
California thought they were getting a conservative to fix the states financial woes. What they got was a liberal in conservative cloaking.
Filed under: 2008 presidential race, California, National Secruity, News and Views | Tagged: arnold, California, conservative, debt, gengrich, h & c, lliberal, newt, political, politics, shwarzenegger, taxes, writers strike
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California’s real debt obligations is nearly a half a trillion dollars that’s 450,000000.00 folks.
15 billion is a yearly negative and they can’t even
get that right. This is a crime brought on by
all the lawmakers in Sac… when will it stop ?
I help throw out Gov. Davis and it did no good they are right back where they started.
Davis lied then saying the debt was 15B then after reelection he told the truth.
Thank you for your continued leadership.
Get McCain on board. He could win with this issue.
Since Nixon there has been a continued war on the productive classes of the United States by the legal class, the financial class, the political class, and the non-productive class/retired class. We cannot have the working people, the productive people, handle any more pressure by these other groups. Rewarding financial irresponsibility is not acceptable. Lastly, the fiduciary irresponsibility, the lack of loyalty to our country, and the massive stupidity of people who made this problem is simply astounding. The moral laxness and the unwillingness of our government to root out even blatant, amazingly gross, conflicts of interest in our political system is astounding. I took a day off from producing to watch these guys. I work as a doctor. I don’t have a lot of time to watch these people every second. Financial ethics, fiduciary responsibility, intergenerational responsibility?
Lastly, how come the people who stand up for the people always seem to get investigated and the most corrupt seem to stay. If this passed I was going to have to get therapy to change my moral value system to adapt to be closer to what the leaders of our country seem to want – the ability to lie, to bully, to coddle corruption, and to be fiscally irresponsible; and to have a love affair with people who play financial and legal games with the citizenry.
God Bless
“Financial ethics, fiduciary responsibility, intergenerational responsibility?’
Your right! I was a CEO and felt the responsibility every minute of the day. Families depended on me.
Governments do not like change. I Tried to get California to change the way bed sores were tracked in order to improve nursing home care. (see software tab) I was able to show outcomes of patients with wounds combined with their co-morbidity’s. This would have stopped the 100’s of millions in medicare and medical fraud in the nursing home and home health system.
California decided to prosecute nursing homes with out providing a solution. It changed nothing.
The problem is those nasty middle clas people with job skills. How dare they flee! We need them to foot the bills. We can’t feel good about ourselves unless we pass legislation that promises more benefits to those that don’t work, don’t get educated, and don’t invest for the future. We need those that are successful to drain to help those that aren’t. We have to spread that wealth around.
One thing that would help the hemmorage of money is to stop voting on measures that mandate spending. With every election cycle bond measures are on the ballot that mandate funds for programs. Some of these are good programs for infrastructure and for schools and fire and police etc. so people vote for them. But Californian’s need to wake up and realize that we have way too much mandated spending and it is draining us dry. I am a center left Dem, and in this last election I voted NO on anything that mandated spending. I come from a family of far left Liberals and they all voted NO on anything that mandated spending. There comes a point (long past) where you just have to look at a wallet full of moths and say sorry there just isn’t any more MONEY.
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It’s going to get even worse as state employees retire and pick up their fat pensions. I just had a couple Californians tell me about their smog nazi adventures, too. Amazing. No wonder people are leaving California. It sounds like a godawful place to live.