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!

Jun

JUNE 3, 2009: Arnold’s Day Of Reckoning

By CalamityDevon

Tuesday in Sacramento, Governor Schwarzenegger received a standing ovation from the legislature during his joint session budget address.

In the address, he praised the legislature for coming together in February, despite ideological differences, to solve $36 BILLION of a $42 BILLION dollar deficit. This amounts to a pat on the head of lawmakers for stabbing the taxpayers of California in the back.

The Governor regurgitates the same rhetoric about getting the voter’s message “loud and clear”. Again he is half right in word and almost completely wrong in theory.

We are again given the sob story of what a task it is to make hard decisions during this crisis. “I know the consequences of these cuts are not just dollars. I see the faces behind those dollars…I see the children whose teacher will be laid-off… I see the Alzheimer’s’ patients losing some of their In-Home Support Services… I see the firefighters and police officers who will lose their jobs. People come up to me all the time, pleading, ‘Governor, please don’t cut my program.’ They tell me how the cuts will affect them and their loved ones. I see the pain in their eyes and hear the fear in their voice. It’s an awful feeling.”

So now were back to fear mongering and guilt, how original.

The Governor wants to use the states financial crisis as an opportunity to make the government more efficient and find creative ways to stretch taxpayer revenue. Citing the need for the Board of Education to make textbooks available online, restructuring the relationship between state and local government, eliminating and consolidating more than a dozen state departments, boards and commissions like the Waste Management Board. Great idea. It takes a crisis of this magnitude to figure out the state needs to spend our money more efficiently?

The Governor did have a stroke of sensibility when he addressed the spending on prison’s has just about doubled in the last five years. In California we spend approximately $49,000 annually per inmate. The national average is $32,000 annually per inmate. When the legislature is prepared to take an honest look at the cost differences we will be on the road to fiscal sanity.

In a line out of a Hollywood blockbuster, the Governor declares, “California’s day of reckoning is here”. In reality, this statement comes a few years to late. It’s nice to know the Governor finally caught up to that page in his script.

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