The idea that they voted down a tax hike because it’s “too complicated”

You know, I bet ol’ King George said very close to the same thing about those “stupid American Colonists”

Lay off some state workers? Which ones? And how many? Remember, the entire state payroll is about $25 billion. You could lay off every last one of them every Highway Patrol officer, every prison guard, every state firefighter, every health inspector, every professor in the UC and CSU systems, every DMV employee and every nameless, faceless paper-shuffling bureaucrat and the state would only be barely in the black. But if you want to do that, go ahead. You’re in charge, remember.

Nope, we don’t have to lay them all off.

Simply reduce their pay by 40%! $10 billion right off the top and no one loses their job!

(it will still be 10% over the national norm)

As an added benefit this will put them under Obama’s “new” tax increases!

BRILLIANT EA!!

In fact we can tell the Ca. gov workers their getting Obama’s “SPECIAL” tax cut!

Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles):

“a very specific message”

Yes they were, and yes we did.

The VERY specific message?

RESIGN!!!

On the contrary you stupid liberal moron. The California voters understood the measures on the ballot very well. That’s why they went thumbs down. Californians are sick and tired of being taxed to death for social engineering experiments, and paying for 10 million illegal aliens that are sucking the life blood out the state.

Sounds good, only one problem, the voters are the ones who keep voting in tax and spend liberal democrats year after year after year.

I live in California, and the people of this state have the government they deserve.

Exit quotation: “Good morning, California voters. Do you feel better, now that you’ve gotten that out of your system?”

Not even the Gubernator’s claim that the State might have to sell things like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Coliseum were enough to sway the people of Fresno into voting for the Initiatives…

So, to answer your question in a nutshell — Oh yes!

Now, once our politicians get done with punishing us by eliminating or reducing essential services such as police and fire, and they still can’t budge us to vote yes on the California Stimulus, maybe they’ll grow a few and work on a more equitable pay-as-you-go method of funding services.

I know, we’re talking here about Democrats, but hope does spring eternal. After all, it sometimes takes the village idiot to teach the rest of the Village of the Damned what needs to be done…

Just before the recent special election, this sack of crap gave out over $551,000 in PERSONAL STAFF pay raises while California was, and still is, laying off state workers and cutting the salaries of other state employees. While people are losing their homes and businesses are closing their doors for good, she’s giving her personal staff from 5% to 19%+ pay raises.

Then, only after people raised a huge stink about the raises, she acknowledged her ‘bad timing’ and cancelled the raises. But, this reprobate also went further and also laid blame on “people who oppose public education” for having to take back the raises.

…just another typical piece of crap politician blaming the people for not doing the elected political officials job of governing? Yes!

This would incentivize government employees, including the legislature, to maximize GDP, not tax revenue. In order to do this the state would need to be more business friendly than it currently is, reducing taxes and red tape for businesses.

You’d need to put some of the excess in good years aside in a special rainy-day fund for the down years since you would be using a rolling average. That is a good idea anyway, but something very difficult for any politician to do (not spend every tax dollar they can get their hands on).

For example, as far as increased class size goes a motivated student could learn in a class of 50. Most of the schlubs that go to HS here couldn’t learn even if they were in a class of 5 students.

“I Dance a little side step”.

SOS in Washington DC.

Senator Specter on tv yesterday, covering for Pelosi, also said, the CIA lies. Proving once again, that getting re-elected, is far more important, to these bloated, incumbents. Time to let them know, that they are NOT nearly as important to us, as they are in their own minds.

California speaker: Voters find budgetary proposals “too complicated” or something

ARE YOU FOOLS PAYING ATTENTION???

On the contrary you stupid liberal moron. The California voters understood the measures on the ballot very well. That’s why they went thumbs down. Californians are sick and tired of being taxed to death for social engineering experiments, and paying for 10 million illegal aliens that are sucking the life blood out the state. When you fools figure that one out, then there may be some progress. If you can’t, then the next voter initiative will be cutting you legislatures back to just a few days a month in Sacramento.

ARE YOU FOOLS PAYING ATTENTION???

Oh then she does the “we have to act quickly” line.

that translates to if we don’t act quickly, if we think about it, it may start to seem like a stupid move. so we must act quickly.

Caroline Kennedy without the “y’knows”, and proud of it.

It’s not that voters are weary of taxing and spending, it’s that they’re weary of having to think real hard and trudge on down to the polling place every few months or so.

Or, to put the blame where it belongs, “Our well-funded campaign didn’t sell it properly.” You might disagree with that, but it’s basically what she’s saying.

She’s right about having too many special elections, though. I’ve gone to the polls five times in the last 18 months, three times due to special elections.

Why is this news again?

I think this is the basis for why liberals want a socialized country; free markets and individual liberty can’t be trusted in the hands of buffoons. Hell, didn’t Prop 8 teach anyone anything? If democracy won’t give them the result they want, they’ll manipulate the courts to do it for them…