Letter to the Editor: California Budget Catastrophe - Let the Poor fix it!

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - Our good old Govenator was at his best this week, trying to close a 24 billion dollar budget cap for California.

I support his efforts to cut out Cal Works, where we waste millions so those welfare people can "learn" a skill and get a job. They don't want to work anyway, they just want a handout!

Go ahead and cut out health insurance for poor kids. Let them go to the E.R. It is a lie that going to the E.R. ends up costing the tax payer several times more than it would if they had health insurance. Those parents don't care about their kids anyway, that is why they all end up in gangs.

Yes, cut education, we do not want more educated people. All they do is cause trouble. These people do not need to know how to read, add, operate a computer, etc. We can bring in people from India to do that for us.

It won't hurt to cut back on aid to the elderly, what did they ever do to help our society? Nothing important. Let their own kids take care of them like they are supposed to do.

Look at some of the Asian groups with 10 to 20 people in one house. That won't hurt them one bit, but it may build some character!

The blind and disabled are other groups who will see their aid sliced (Except for the blind, they won't even see it coming! Pretty clever, eh?)

And how about those health care workers? Those selfish people, who never help anyone, complain that cutting their wage from $12 and hour to $8.00 will hurt. Let them just live on their savings for a few years. What's that the leftists say? They don't have much savings? Well, that's their own fault for wasting what they do earn!

Cutting the police and fire services is also a good idea. Who cares if a poor person is robbed or if his house burns down? They do not have the power to do anything about it, so they do not deserve this type of protection. We can afford our own security, so it does not really mean a thing!

Things are really tough for people in business these days. My friend Cyrus had to lay off 14 people or give up his second Jaguar! What an awful choice to have to make, he really loves that car!

And Norm had to give up one of his girlfriends and kick her out of the apartment he was keeping her in. Things were so tight his wife might have found out about the babes, so he had to cut one of them loose. What a shame!

Alex cannot afford the good stuff any more, so he switched from wine back to brandy. What suffering these people are going through. It is a sin!

I just read about five C.E.O.s who had to reduce their quarterly bonuses to keep share prices up. The worst case was the guy who's bonus was cut by one third, down to just under $180,000 every three months. Poor guy.

Let those lily livered pansies, those stupid bleeding heard liberals complain all they want. The important people are suffering, and all they care about are the ignorant and the poor. What a bunch of idiots! Keep up the good work, Arnold!!!

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Daniel Johnson June 3, 2009 5:19 am (Pacific time)

In a speech about a month go the govenator said: “I like not having a safety net. I like the risk of not knowing. But I will be involved in all kinds of great things.” Easy for him to say.

Henry Ruark May 31, 2009 1:00 pm (Pacific time)

Anon: Have, on accasion, with some justification, been termed mouthy, arrogant, quarrelsome and nosy. but never before as polka-dot/skied ! Is that a new form of racism or your own original slur ?? Re "misinformed", usually do follow with link to "see with own eyes, evaluate with own mind" source, for those badly needing one. For some, simple summary is usual; where little hope for any cogitation based on reality and facts-shown, then that's coded words for "you lie in your teeth, you cur, sir !",easily judged by other readers via comparing facts given vs erroneous statements made in perverted Comment. That's role of determined dissident, designed to detect, deny, defeat purposeful distortion disgracefully re-shaping checkable truth for political-pander purposes. Re credibility, depends on WHAT published, WHERE, by WHAT EDITOR. Mine evident from S-N Staff statement. WHERE's YOURS ? Was neatly and courteously requested,sir; but not shown-yet here or with link to anywhere else, either. SO what's color/tone/pattern in YOUR sky ? We DON"T KNOW, but can assume it ain't too sunny there, esp. since Nov.4

Henry Ruark May 30, 2009 7:06 pm (Pacific time)

Anon:
Yrs re predictions fails to provide any provocative links to what you SAY you produced in the past portentous events.

Why NOT name publications, dates, titles, issue and pages, if you cannot now supply us withAnon:
Yrs re predictions fails to provide any provocative links to what you SAY you produced in the past portentous events.

Why NOT name publications, dates, titles, issue and pages, if you cannot now supply us with "see with own eyes" links ?

So far have done 575 for S-N averaging 1,000 words; making my published total now over 6 million, nearly 7, mostly paid for by editors.
Mine stress "evaluate with own mind", no matter what I write as "informed opinion", which it surely is, averaging 40 sources, available with working phone and ID request to Tim.
For mine, simply see STAFF "Written by..." list.

We await your real claim for credibility via yr published list, sir, if any...OR is THAT why you choose here to remain "anonymous" ?? !! Always safer that way, until someone calls you out...

Daniel Johnson May 30, 2009 2:48 pm (Pacific time)

See Nobel economist Paul Krugman's column in NYT from May 24. As California goes, so goes America. True? He hopes not but... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/opinion/25krugman.html?scp=1andsq=krugman%20caligorniaandst=Search

Anonymous May 30, 2009 2:06 pm (Pacific time)

again: blaming bush and the republicans. I do not like them either, and they made a mess of things, but obama has spent....yeesh, how henry can write with a straight face is beyond me..If we had JOBS things would not be so bad, and CLINTON, was the one who started outsourcing jobs, and bush continued it. AND, Clinton took the social security money to balance the budget.. Henry: YOU need to get your facts straight and quit living in a world with polka dot skies. Its funny, everyone is "mis-informed" except Henry. Did you Henry, predict the housing crisis in 2003? I did. Did you predict the attack on 911 2 months before it happened? I did.. Did you predict oil would go from 147 a barrel to 50 a barrel within 5 weeks? I did. I now predict, the shoe from heck will drop before sept 2009, and it wont be pretty..obama is a puppet to the elite just as many before him..wake up..sept is only a few months away. The FEDERAL RESERVE BANK caused this, and will do as they did in WW1 and WW2, they will start another world war. watch and see

Henry Ruark May 30, 2009 1:36 pm (Pacific time)

Carlson: You are misinformed, sir, on the national picture of fiscal and financial actions leading to the furious consuming crisis now faced across the nation. For accurate assessment of WHO did WHAT and WHAT IT COST, see "$10 TRILLION HANGOVER" by Nobel-winner economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, HARPER'S Jan. '09 with extremely revealing two-full-pages of excellent graphics, detailing "paying the price of eight years of Bush." Dunno YOU, but DO know Dr. Stiglitz,trust both his proven professional integrity AND his superlative review of reality, far more than I can yours from unknown base with absolutely no qualifications stated here. Stiglitz is noted for his professional review also of preceding decades right back to Reagan distortions of our economy with massive tax-cuts favoring rich and corporate interests, with deregulation, privatization and perversion of globalization massive tools for misperceived policy mayhem for which our grandchildren will be paying -- UNLESS we now act from principle to protect, preserve and project what we can still do, given wise and people-concerned leadership. I note YOU provide NO link, no other source than your own personal analysis, and no solid dollar figures for the comparisons surely demanded by what you state. My Momma done tol' me never to listen to odd guys coming out of the alley..."They plan bad things," she insisted.

Anonymous May 30, 2009 10:15 am (Pacific time)

this is not a republican vs. democrat issue. And as long as people keep using that as an excuse, they will NEVER see the real problem and will go straight down with the sinking ship.

Carlson May 30, 2009 9:14 am (Pacific time)

All of California's fiscal problems began when the democrats took over that state's legislature. You can make the same argument with Congress, for when they took over via misleading the public with scare tactics about the economy in 2006, the unemployment rate was around 5% and the stock market was over 13,500. Of course facts are not what radicals can debate, but the above can all be verified simply by looking up the data. Arnold like Bush, had to deal with fiscally irresponsible democrats. Currently Oregon has the 2nd highest unemployment rate in the nation, soon to be number one, and then what does the democratic legislature do? They begin raising taxes during this worsening recession. Look at any state run by this similar ideology and you see similar poor economic conditions that also adversely impact education, public safety, employment, job growth and on down the line. Oregon was a fantastic state until we had many radical interlopers move in, but this is beginning to change as more disaffected responsible voters are moving in from other states. Just to stop the democrats in Oregon, we just need to change 3 house seats, essentially in the Marion/Polk county area. Polls already show that would be done if a vote was held today. Wait until our state economy gets even worse. 2010 will bring about positive change and God willing, some prosecution for those who are employing sedition techniques to destroy our economy.

Anonymous May 30, 2009 8:03 am (Pacific time)

30 second video clip of Arnold speech 2006. I laughed at it then is was so ridiculous, now, its not funny anymore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzUbtIptqQ

Daniel Johnson May 30, 2009 7:03 am (Pacific time)

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

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