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So the idiot lazy-asses in the California State Legislature have been dicking around for months now, supposedly debating a state budget--while getting paid and taking vacations-- and of course haven't managed to actually do anything.
Meanwhile, California not has been running without a budget (or a functioning legislature, I might add) and building up the largest state debt in our history. The debt is so bad that it is unlikely we will get out of it anytime soon, and is so unbelievably fucked-up that now California won't even be able to run on credit because no one trusts our state with their money (I don't blame them either).
State job layoffs are going to be the most probable result. State programs will also be cut. These actions are supposed to help the state function at a lower cost (I fail to see how, when the unemployed will be asking for state aid, and the many helpless people who once received state aid will now be homeless or destitute or both, but hey, I'm not a politician).
Thus, through their monumental dickery, things have gone from Pretty Fucking Bad to Close to Disastrous.
The Governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I did NOT vote for, but whatever) has had enough and is now invoking privilege and the dire times to hold secret meetings and pass an emergency budget. There is no doubt he will delight in cutting many of the state aid programs he thought were unnecessary anyway. Nonetheless, he is at least aware that the state cannot continue on this way.
The legislature members however, Senate and House, are now complaining that he has shut them out of the decision-making process.
Um...perhaps because you guys weren't making any decisions. Maybe you dumbfucks had your chance and blew it in a spectacular Republican/Democrat pissing match. You didn't do your jobs, and yet every single one of you is going to ask to get re-elected in a few months time.
Assholes. How about we suspend their pay and use that to fund the aid programs? And maybe take away their vacation pay and paid time off for the holidays, give that to the state workers who are now being forced to take unpaid time off that they can't afford?
I am So. Angry.
If you'd like, I can pass on the link to the State Legislature's website, which allows you to look up your representative, and maybe give them a piece of your mind. And feel free to forward the link on, to make sure that everyone who is going to be suffering with the newest cuts knows exactly who to blame. And who not to vote for.
CA Legislature
Argh! I don't have a pissed off icon right now!
Meanwhile, California not has been running without a budget (or a functioning legislature, I might add) and building up the largest state debt in our history. The debt is so bad that it is unlikely we will get out of it anytime soon, and is so unbelievably fucked-up that now California won't even be able to run on credit because no one trusts our state with their money (I don't blame them either).
State job layoffs are going to be the most probable result. State programs will also be cut. These actions are supposed to help the state function at a lower cost (I fail to see how, when the unemployed will be asking for state aid, and the many helpless people who once received state aid will now be homeless or destitute or both, but hey, I'm not a politician).
Thus, through their monumental dickery, things have gone from Pretty Fucking Bad to Close to Disastrous.
The Governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I did NOT vote for, but whatever) has had enough and is now invoking privilege and the dire times to hold secret meetings and pass an emergency budget. There is no doubt he will delight in cutting many of the state aid programs he thought were unnecessary anyway. Nonetheless, he is at least aware that the state cannot continue on this way.
The legislature members however, Senate and House, are now complaining that he has shut them out of the decision-making process.
Um...perhaps because you guys weren't making any decisions. Maybe you dumbfucks had your chance and blew it in a spectacular Republican/Democrat pissing match. You didn't do your jobs, and yet every single one of you is going to ask to get re-elected in a few months time.
Assholes. How about we suspend their pay and use that to fund the aid programs? And maybe take away their vacation pay and paid time off for the holidays, give that to the state workers who are now being forced to take unpaid time off that they can't afford?
I am So. Angry.
If you'd like, I can pass on the link to the State Legislature's website, which allows you to look up your representative, and maybe give them a piece of your mind. And feel free to forward the link on, to make sure that everyone who is going to be suffering with the newest cuts knows exactly who to blame. And who not to vote for.
CA Legislature
Argh! I don't have a pissed off icon right now!
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