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Scenes From A Failed State

by: David Dayen

Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 09:57:50 AM PDT


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Karen Bass, on a budget deal that closes a $26 billion dollar deficit with deep cuts, local government raids, gimmicks and offshore drilling, without any new revenues:

"I would characterize this budget as shared pain and shared sacrifice"

Yes, it sounds shared to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, talking about a budget that will bankrupt localities, treat the elderly, disabled and blind like common criminals, throw millions off of children's health care and temporary assistance and ensure public education's status as the worst-funded in the nation:

"We accomplished a lot in this budget agreement," said Schwarzenegger, adding that negotiations at times were "like a suspense movie."

Fun!

califlag

This flag was seen in Southern California yesterday.  That's a distress signal.  I share the sentiment.

UPDATE: I forgot this quote from Planet Reality:

"This is the biggest step back from protecting and investing in vulnerable Californians in a generation," said Frank Mecca, executive director of the California Welfare Directors Association.
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We're all Okies now (0.00 / 0)
Love the distress flag idea.

What in the world are those people smiling about? (5.00 / 2)
They should be hanging their heads in shame.

Exactly - they should be scowling (5.00 / 1)
I'm serious.  That photo - beamed across the state today - is a fracking disaster.  

It is a revolting smile-fest for the people (i.e., all of us) who will be the victims of this "budget".  

And, tactically, it is horrorshow of PR for the "Democrats" if they ever have any hope of pumping the Demo-brand.


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They can always say that they were smiling (0.00 / 0)
politely in that photo because Arnold was making a joke.  It's just too bad that he gets to enact it into law.

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Bass is unbelievably...... (0.00 / 0)
....STUPID

What does she bring to the table? (0.00 / 0)
One of the joys of term limits is that you really don't know who the leadership is, since by the time you figure out who's in charge, they no longer are.

I'd be surprised if she really were stupid.  Although based on the last week, if somebody who knew her told me she was, I'd have to consider maybe she was.

If she isn't stupid:  why the hell is she speaker?  Was she the only one that was willing to take the job?


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idiots (0.00 / 0)
by selling this crapfest as a victory, esp. with smiling faces, they now own the crushing consequences, and subsequent tax and public employee-busting county and municipal bankruptcies they've set into motion.

fucking idiots. any hope of hanging this on the GOP just evaporated.


Evaporation seeds the rain (0.00 / 0)
Come on.  Letting it pass (if at all) with unanimous GOP votes would be a much bigger mark in favor of hanging in on the GOP than that photo is against it.  Now they just have to do so.

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Redefining shared (4.67 / 3)
When I was in kindergarten, we were told to share. That meant you had to let everybody use your favorite crayon color. Give cupcakes to everyone when you brought them. And have everybody pick up the little pieces of construction paper off the floor after cutting snowflakes.

It has been a long time since kindergarten. But I wasn't aware that "shared" now means we slash everything that matters to the citizens of the state and the big corporations and Republican tax cutters give up nothing. In fact, they get to keep all the goodies they extorted as part of their February tax "deal." We get more cuts, more oil drilling (without any new fees), and more borrowing.

Anybody want to chip in for a dictionary to send to our state "leaders"? They've clearly forgotten what we learned in kindergarten about sharing.


Can't share those cuppycakes (0.00 / 0)
No cupcakes allowed in many schools these days...apparently they relay the wrong message about being healthy.

Yeah...like one cupcake every birthday or so will kill ya.

This budget will kill many though.


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It may be "Nice To Share", but (0.00 / 0)
no one who believes that can get elected in a Republican primary.  Just sayin'.

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How do we protest? (5.00 / 1)
I've got folks asking me what, when, and where.  Is anything being organized to ask our reps to throw this one to the shredder?

I'm calibeep on Twitter
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Leaders (0.00 / 0)
From despair.com "Leaders are like eagles. We don't have either of them here."  

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