Thread: Time For Tough Choices: California

Time For Tough Choices: California

May 22, 2009
Karl Denninger

From the LA Times:

Reporting from Sacramento -- With deficit forecasts growing darker by the day, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering a plan to slash California's safety net for the poor by eliminating the state's main welfare program, health insurance for low-income families and cash grants to college students.

Of course California is known for having "sanctuary cities", $200,000 pensions for firefighters and in general providing largess to everyone - even those who aren't citizens.

This is a problem, of course, but it didn't bother all the bleeding hearts so long as all the high-flying people out there were flipping houses and running up their credit cards.

Now, of course, the credit card is dead and the home is being foreclosed on, much like the rest of the nation as a whole - but of course the Federal Government can run deficits so long as it can con China - California can't.

Its time to set an example here folks:

•No more "freebies" for illegals. Period. No free medical care, no free schools, not even jailing people - you get caught here illegally you get sent home. Period, end of discussion, full-stop. Start right now and enforce the damn law; a HUGE percentage of California's prison population are in fact illegal aliens. We pay twice - first for the crime, then again to jail them. Stop being stupid.
•Stop paying civil service jobs (firefighters, teachers, etc) $100,000+, more than twice the per-capita income.
•Fix the pension system so it can't be gamed and double-dipped to the tune of $200,000+ for that same firefighter when they retire.
•Stop subsidizing people who want to have 8 embryos IVF'd into their uterus when they can't personally cover the cost of BIRTHING those eight new mouths, never mind attempting to raise them.
•If you're "poor" and need help, make receiving that help conditioned on working. If nothing else I bet there's a bunch of trash alongside roads that needs to be picked up. If you're able-bodied, no help without working in exchange - for the general benefit of society. Period.
What's happening here is entirely predictable and in fact has been predicted. You can't spend more than you make for very long; eventually your credit card comes back "declined."

California is first in this regard but won't be the last.

Wake up America.

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•No more "freebies" for illegals. Period. No free medical care, no free schools, not even jailing people - you get caught here illegally you get sent home. Period, end of discussion, full-stop. Start right now and enforce the damn law; a HUGE percentage of California's prison population are in fact illegal aliens. We pay twice - first for the crime, then again to jail them. Stop being stupid.

We have no choice but to incarcerate murderers, rapist, child molesters, etc., regardless of their nationality. I'm all for the automatic deportation of illegals that commit petty crimes. However, I could never support the premature deportation of felony criminals. Criminals who commit serious crimes must be punished according to the law. Oh, and IMO, deportation is not a punishment unless you are (were) a legal immigrant.

I called Governor Arnie's office this morning to let him know I am all for him cutting off welfare and the stupid programs that mostly serve illegals! There is so much fraud going on with the welfare system anyway so be done with it! I bet if you had to work for the welfare check, most people would just earn a living on their own. Cut off the money spigit! I also called Obamarama's office and told the aid that I want California to fix their budget problems by cutting back. They should not receive any sort of TARP money or any financial aid whatsoever. They need to be taught a lesson in economics 101! NO BAILOUT FOR CALIFORNA!!

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