Dedicated To The Calamity That Is California And It’s Politics

We find ourselves in a POLITICAL CALAMITY not just in our Nation's capital but here in California as well. Everyday we watch our Country slip farther and farther away from the original vision of our Founding Fathers. We watch as California crumbles underneath the weight of a crushing deficit without the needed leadership to put our state back on track. "We The People" can no longer sit idly by and wait. Take the first step. It is your responsibility to arm yourself with information. You must seek out facts and make up your own mind. No one can tell you how to think, YOU MUST THINK FOR YOURSELF! Part of the reason we are so deeply entrenched in mediocrity is we’ve been all too willing to accept people and their word at face value. We are far too trusting of our Teachers, Main Stream Media and our Politicians. We send our kids to school and expect they will be taught an accurate depiction of History, when in fact History is often rewritten to reflect the views of the “politically correct”. We read newspapers and watch the nightly news and expect we will be told the truth, but instead we’re given agenda based reporting. We elect politicians and trust they will stand by their word and make decisions based on our best interest, only to find we’ve been sold out to special interests. Look around: The herd mentality hasn’t worked out so well, especially here in California. YOU MUST GET INFORMED, BE INFORMED AND STAY INFORMED!

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MAY 26, 2009: Just Say No TO A Bailout for California

By CalamityDevon

I was asked a popular question today from someone outside of California. “What’s your Governor going to do now that the voters didn’t pass all those props? I answered by explaining Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed laundry list of budget cuts. You remember…cuts of thousands of state employee positions, cuts in billions of dollars to education spending, cuts to children’s healthcare, off loading criminal illegal aliens to the federal government, the taking of BILLIONS of dollars from local governments, the list goes on and on.

With an estimated $21.3 BILLION dollar budget shortfall, it’s going to take more than cursory cuts by a lame duck governor to get us out of out of our deficit hole. On our current course the state will be out of money in weeks, not months (if you read this blog you know that would actually be a good thing for California). The ink wasn’t even dry on the special election ballots before we heard how California is too big to fail. This is much of the same rhetoric we heard with AIG and the auto industry. Speculation on federal assistance for California is rampant. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and the White House lacks the power to throw money our way but Congress can. The President, in an interview with C-SPAN last week, said “NO” when asked about a bailout for California. This doesn’t mean it’s a dead issue. The term “bailout” is vastly unpopular with the American people. To get around this, state officials are asking for “emergency federal loans” and “federal loan guarantees”. Whatever they call it, it’s a bailout.

The American taxpayer’s should not have to pay for the costly mistakes of our incompetent state government. The citizens of California do not deserve to be shackled with the inevitable strings that come attached with federal bailout money. Federal financial assistance is not a solution and it shouldn’t even be an option for Sacramento. It’s bad for America and it’s bad for California.

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