Saturday, July 18, 2009

FAILURE.

After his approval of splurging millions of dollars of city taxpayer money on a memorial for Michael Jackson, and because he's got all the books balanced here in L.A., Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was asked on MSNBC, about his in-depth analysis concerning the state of the economy in California as a whole.

[Mr. Mayor, is there a way forward, in your mind, and if so what are key to breaking not only the short term crisis but what seems to be a longer structural economic crisis in California?]

  • "Well, there is a way forward and that way forward requires that we make cuts in programs, serious cuts, and legislature's done that over the last couple of years."

Wait a second! Make cuts? How about cutting the amount of money we spend on celebrity memorials? Anybody for that? The financial whiz that he is, Villaraigosa conveniently forgets to mention that between 2003 and 2007, California state spending grew 31%, compared with a 5% population increase. A lot of the spending increases had to do with unions. For instance, the unfunded liabilities of the 356,000 California state workers pension plans are now estimated at over $200 billion. Wait there's more.

  • "But it also requires that we raise the revenue that we need to provide the safety net of programs that are so essential to Californians."

All right, Mr. Mayor. Raising taxes again, in one of the highest taxed states in the country, just after the largest state tax increase in the history of our nation back in February; is required??? So Villaraigosa's plan, after he's blown millions of dollars on the Michael Jackson memorial, is to raise taxes on us to strengthen the safety net. Could you strengthen the safety net by not spending millions of dollars on a celebrity memorial?

[Mr. Mayor, where do you get that revenue from, that your talking about? Are you in favor of significant increases in the tax rates particularly among the wealthy?]

  • "Well, I'm in favor of raising taxes and cutting programs."

California already has the highest state income tax, the highest sales tax, and the highest gasoline tax in the nation. The business climate is so unfriendly thwarted with strict regulations, a recent Milken Institute report found that between 2000 and 2007, California lost nearly 400,000 manufacturing jobs. So raising taxes doesn't seem like any type of compromise in solving Sacramento's out of control spending. How much more can be sucked out of the California taxpayer to finance his illegal alien children in the schools and his illegal alien children being taken to the hospitals by their illegal alien parents? Why do we have to put up with this? Why does this man exist running the city of Los Angeles campaigning on national television for more taxes? I guess it's easy for Villaraigosa to say raise taxes, when his city of Los Angeles has a $500 million plus, deficit... but that's not exactly a sign of economic insight.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Psychos in Sacramento

In reference to the May 19th special election, where the taxpayers voted down a massive 2 year tax extension, California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass was asked,

  • How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work?
She said:
  • the Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it's about free speech, but it's extremely unfair.

It seems this tax and spend Obama zombie doesn't like the fact we voted not to let Sacramento steal more of our money. When our elected Representatives misrepresent the will of the people, we have the right to replace them with someone who does represent the will of the people. So now she has to be responsible for all the money that has been given to all the unions and illegal aliens collecting welfare, and we're called terrorists by voting the "wrong" way, against more tax increases. She's really gone off the deep end by calling voters terrorists, just because they don't want their taxes to go any higher.

Then add the fact that Democrat Budget Conference Committee hack, Noreen Evans, is trying to raise your taxes again and you've got to wonder, who are these people representing? It doesn't seem to be tax paying American citizens.

Noreen Evans says:

“living within our means, means nothing!”