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   Sandor_at_the_Zoo said, 4 months ago

   There’s nothing wrong with California that a sudden rise in the sea level wouldn’t cure.

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   nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

   They’re just like the rest of “US”. Spent more than they made (taxed).

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   churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

   But they did it with reckless abandon, and now want those that didn’t to bail them out.

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   believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

   no, wait, glub, anthony, MKitt, where arre you? glub glub

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   GNWachs said, 4 months ago

   believecommonsense: I just wrote to you about another post. I live in NYC but my whole family lives in California. What they said was when the Governator threatened to cut services he actually listed many that he would be forced to cut. The middle class read the list and thought “My God, none of these have any effect on me, personally”. So they went to the polls in mass and voted no on tax increases.

   The beneficiaries of the services are the same people who don’t pay taxes. There is a disconnect there.

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   NoFearPup said, 4 months ago

   Corosive Froggy,Is that the New Brunswick area up there? It looks like it was meant to belong to America…

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   believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

   GNW, my belief is that the CA public just fed up with the folks in Sacramento, both parties. They haven’t passed a balanced budget in years and put the state through this crisis every year by never passing one on time, either.

   And CA voters have been asked to vote on measures increasing taxes on certain items to pay for very specific programs; then the Legislature sometimes goes in and raids those funds to put in the general fund. So they’re sick of that too.

   And what was on the ballot was smoke and mirrors. By that I mean, special interests up in Sacramento worked to prevent their clients from being affected by any of it. At least some people, like me, read that and were disgusted by it.

   I sometimes think if they had put simply worded temporary tax increases and higher user fees on ballot for the sheer purpose of a balanced budget ($24 billion in the red as of now), it might have passed IF

   they had bit the bullet and made the cuts they must make and those cuts were public, rather than presented as worst case scenarios.

   Social services are a mess in CA and they need to be better managed. Probably every voter in CA knows one person that should not be getting social services at all, because they have more income (sometimes under the table) than the voter. Too many scamming the system and the system isn’t set up to discover them.

   and lastly, though many will disagree with me, I don’t believe people here illegally should be allowed to receive social services funds. I don’t think they should be turned away at the door of an ER, but neither should they receive MedCal, CALWorks, housing subsidies and a long string of other programs. It’s killing this state and has been for years now. Education in this state suffers from the constant influx of children who don’t speak English, including some who were born in the U.S, There are hidden costs for every agency that must deal with non-English speakers, at every level, city, county, state.

   Me? I voted no on all the measures except the one that denies lawmakers pay raises when budgets aren’t passed by deadline. So I voted the same as the majority of CA voters.

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   Briscoe said, 4 months ago

   The picture says it all. Excellent cartoon. As usual, California leads the nation.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

   Yes CA–“go west young man”

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    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    Radar…I have advocated for years that every thing South of the St.Lawrence River become part of the USA( well not years, I just thought it up)