A State Headed Downhill--

I'm pretty disgusted this morning!
I've read the news and it's always the same thing, over and over!

Our politicians in Sacramento just don't get it! We have a major budget deficit and we've had it since Gray Davis was governor. Arnold Schwarznegger takes over and tries to trim the budget to a manageable size and the democraps are up in arms immediately.
Apparently they can't read--because the State Constitution says they're not allowed to maintain a budget deficit!

"Ahnold" suggests we cut back on expenditures, including giving education (besides the 40 percent of the budget they NOW get!) only 3 million more. Personally, I thought the 40 percent was an outrageous figure, in the first place!

So right away the teacher's unions want to go on strike, screaming about how the governor "promised" them their raises and now he's reneged on his promise.

So what does the legislature do? Why, recommend taxes be increased by 3 percent overall to make up the deficit and STILL give the teacher's union what they demand!

So, the way government works is, come up with a deficit budget, then tell the people, "Sorry, but we have to increase taxes to pay for this stuff!"

You might wonder how they get people to go along with them. The answer is simpler than you might think. They give the "have-nots" more welfare and free health care to gain their votes!
The fact that the majority population in California is now Mexican, makes one wonder how long the state can keep on providing more and more welfare and health care!
So it becomes easy to see why they want to raise taxes.

Businesses have decided they can't trust the legislature any more. They're packing up and moving out of state in droves. Just one example: Lockheed Martin owned an aircraft factory in Burbank, along with the airfield adjacent to it. The factory was famous for the planes they produced, such as the P-38 fighter, the P80 and F104 Starfighter and their most famous aicrcraft, the SR71 Blackbird. In peacetime, they built the four engine Constellation and the L1011 passenger jet, along with many others.

They also owned a large complex in Sunnyvale, building various missiles, including the Agena rocket, first used in space docking maneuvers, followed by Polaris and Poseidon submarine missiles. All together, these factories employed, at one time or another, over 120,000 people.
Where are they now?

The Burbank facility is long gone and the adjacent airfield is now owned by the city of Burbank. All aircraft manufacturing has been moved to Georgia.
The facility in Sunnyvale is one-tenth it's original size, with computing moved to Colorado and missile operations moved to Austin, Texas.

Think of the taxes lost to the state by the move of that one company! The state has lost the corporation's taxes, plus the taxes of the employees who worked there.
And they STILL want to increase taxes, to help pay for their deficits!

Will the rascals be voted out of office for their stupidilty? Nope! The socialists in this state have a firm grip on government and they're not about to let go.

Any day now, they will legislate the renaming of California. It will forever after be known as MEXIFORNIA!