Governor Gropenfuhrer promised to "run California like a business". And he has....

[arbusto_baboso]

Unfortunately, he has run California like AIG, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia and Enron.

Why are so many of my fellow Californian's so fucking starstruck?

[Taverner]

1. I'm not - Fuck Arnold

He has destroyed this place

He's a one man Prop 13

[arbusto_baboso]

2. The asswipe better forget about running for the Senate.

I'll make it my life's fricking work to see him defeated!

[bemildred]

3. Nah, Kalifornia doesn't get a bailout. nt

[arbusto_baboso]

4. That's too bad, because California is the domino that will cause all the rest to fall...

Everyone was panicked about lending institutions, but California really IS "too big to fail"!

[lunatica]

5. fuck him. I voted against the fucking recall knowing it was going to fucking ruin us

fuck, fuck, fuck...

[arbusto_baboso]

8. As did I. But then, I knew the facts about Davis being set up to take the fall for...

electricity deregulation, too.

Arnie had a part in that, didn't he? Didn't he have a secret meeting with Enron execs months before the recall?

[DBoon]

6. ran it the same way he ran Planet Hollywood

right into bankruptcy

[arbusto_baboso]

7. What is it with failed Republican business people?

Why are they always elected to high office?

[gleaner]

9. I'm not either....

I never understood why people jumped to recall Gray Davis. He may not have been the star of a lot of b status action adventure films, but he tried to run the state competently at least.

Now here we sit waiting for the Governor of Buffoonery to just end his term and go away while our sales tax is 10% and he wants to raise it again. By law he can raise the sales tax for 90 days. Then the question goes to the voters as a ballot initiative and has to be passed by a 2/3 majority in order to carry. He is blithely assuming that as soon as the first 90 days ends he can raise it higher and count it as the beginning of a new 90 days without having to submit it for voter approval.

This really sucks. The whole thing. We have enough rich people in California that if they paid their fair share of state income tax, it would greatly alleviate many of the problems we are having. Seems like common sense to me, except the King of Comic Books in Sacramento is a rich, rich man who will not discommode the fellow members of his monied circle. Once he bragged in an interview that he and his wife were the richest couple in Hollywood. I think maybe we should let him foot the bill for the state. He has helped to cause a lot of our problems. Crazy maker.:crazy:

[arbusto_baboso]

10. The only tax measures that have a snowball's chance are the regressive ones.

Any others will be killed by the rethug minority because of the 2/3 rule. Any the regressive taxes will come back to bite dems in the butt, or so they fear. <SIGH> Meanwhile, the real people of California get screwed without a kiss yet again.

[gleaner]

13. I know.....

that is one of the things that chafes the most. Recessive taxes like the sales tax or the car registration tax they tried to shove off on us a few years ago, (for that let the Dems in the Legislature take a bow) never really solve the fiscal problems.

We need some kind of parity in the tax laws on both the state and federal levels. The middle class pays for everyone. I don't mind helping out the poor. They have the need, and face it we are all probably only a paycheck or two from the streets, but I do resent subsidizing the rich. There may be nothing I can do about it except write letters and make calls to disinterested legislators, but I resent the heck out of it.

[arbusto_baboso]

15. Yes. Corporate Welfare recipients have the nerve to complain about "welfare queens".

The wealthy in this country are the biggest of all the welfare queens, but since they feel entitled to everything they have, they are incapable of seeing it that way.

Is it any wonder The Family was able to attract members?

[gleaner]

17. No wonder at all.....

what you say is very true and it is a lot like having a bone stuck in my throat. I wonder if they have a special greed gene attached to their basic indifference gene?

[pinto]

16. Yeah, the recall was a fiasco, across the board. Some tax clarification though -

the legislature sets the state tax rate (currently at 8.25% iirc), county and local taxes add to that rate depending on region. Not sure about the 90 day law you mention. ??? Do you mean the 90 day notice the legislature has to provide the Board of Equalization before any tax increase?

[Forkboy]

11. Kali-Fornia Uber Alles 21st Century

I am Governor Schwarzenegger
If I can I'll be dictator
When they make me Pwesident
Democracy is going away
Hasta la vista, Baby
I vill command all of you
Kindergarten cop in every school
Or I vill terminate you

Kali-Fornia Über Alles
Über Alles Kali-fornia

Enron will control you
Like they staged the recall coup
Steroids for de Master Race
So you all can have my face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Bush & Cheney are already here
Third Reich won't come back, you say? Not if Fox News has their way
Can I grope your titties today?

Kali-Fornia Über Alles
Über Alles Kali-fornia

Mandate Two-Thousand und Four
Knock Knock on your bedroom door
It's the Homeland Security Police
You're a terrorist and so is your niece
Drag you secretly to a camp
Where we put all da Girlie Men
Don't you worry, it's for a cause
Feeding Halliburton's claws

Die on depleted uranium gas
North Korea or Iran
Run ya down mit my Hummer, baby
If you mess wit Schwarzenegger
And all the money that's making him bigger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXZ9gGy3MnY

[lunatica]

12. arbusto_baboso

Bush is definitely a baboso!! :fistbump: :rofl:

[arbusto_baboso]

14. And we can't forget that.

Ever. And his fans are even worse.