http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/14/MNO81DETHB.DTL Reactions? California is fucked. He's eliminating CalWorks which cost $1.4 billion, but is matched with $4 billion of federal funds, to guarantee $2 billion in corporate breaks. God damn even Reagan raised taxes when the going got tough. It includes a $750 million cut too the in house support service for 430,000 elderly and disabled people.....................and also employs 360,00 people. There's no savings when a lot of those people giving the job climate in California will just be collecting unemployment instead.
Interesting comparison of Texas and California in The Economist. I can't link to the actual story but here are some quotes from it and discussion on a Texas blog: http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.com/2009/07/economist-special-report-on-texas-and.html
I think it is pretty fucked up to take from the poor, and if they add more increases to copays and such on medi-cal I know of at least 10 people that could not afford to get their medications that they need. If he would do this, he would be taking away from people that have nowhere else to go, and if you do that, I figure you are pretty dang cruel. and most that would suffer would be children and the elderly. not cool at all. He only cares about the rich hence why he wont raise taxes. there are only so much things to cut, but there are other ways to get money, and cutting from the poor is an heartless fucked up thing to do. So make people starve, and elderly have no care, nor the disabled, but yet the rich live very well off. Obviously he is a big fucking asshole and that is all I have to say about it, bc it gets me very very mad.
so in short if you are not a healthy, rich, white person with a good paying job, zero kids or a cheap nanny.. you're fucked. the schools here are already suffering. theres no money already for them. teachers getting laid-off all the time. school closures all over the place. classroom sizes are 30 plus kids in each. why is it the poor and young, the disabled and old are ALWAYS the ones that get fucked? why can't the rich be taxed more? take a pay cut? chip in to fucking help!?!!? fucking greedy bastards. i'm getting fucked by all these cuts.. my kids are definitely getting fucked by all these cuts. yes, marijuana needs to be legalized and taxed. there will be an influx of tourist that want to smoke.. let them! and we keep the money. wheres the hair ripping out smilie?
(a) because they have infinite needs in a world of finite resources; (b) because they fuck themselves, usually through drug use; (c) because they do not create wealth and social order, so things that do come first. :xmastree:
Sup, unless you're a corporation, business or in the top 1/5 of income earners you're technically a drain on the system too. :xmastree:
It's amazing. CalWorks is the result of the last Welfare reforms. Welfare is not the sinkhole that is sucking up California's resources, it's all the corporate tax breaks and loopholes. But hey if they can't demonize a religion or race the poor are the next best target.
Because while the rest of us are busy working and trying to make ends meet, the rich can afford lobbyists.
Or is it because wealth and power buy the ability to abuse others without liability. I don't buy any of your arguments. a. Most people don't want more than they need. Which is a minimal portion of the world's resources. b. Most people don't abuse anything or anyone. In comparison to the rich who seek to control everything. c. The majority of working people create the wealth that is controlled by the 01%, who do actually no real toil. The only people that want more than they contribute are the filthy rich. Let's all stand back and watch while BP pollutes our Gulf, and only has to pay 75 million. Wonder how many billions they will make in profit this year while our country swims in oil swill and our wildlife dies our people lose their jobs but their profits are protected. Talk about welfare...
Helllllooooo arnold.... cali.... pot.... He should be pushing for this, there's plenty of videos and shit of him toking and bodybuilding... If he would try to stop being evil, he could just push the pot and fix the whole thing.
Pushing for what? Cutting welfare and childcare for poor women. Or are you so out of it you forgot what the discussion was about? Your type of reply is one of the reasons I don't hang out here much anymore.
Actually we're quite well into that, and moving along at a pretty good pace. It's now being called "Global Governance".
self sustainability.. Its totally possible if fucking welfare tit suckers would get organized, learn how to grow and produce food year round, solar and wind energy on living quarters to cut cost - its Californian for crips and blood sakes .. The problem is people are so bored doing nothing all day they kill each others, people dont want to clean up their neighborhood .. really.. Strolling down the street smoking weed, sipping on jin and juice-laid back. Yeaps thats real motivating..
End welfare? Who would gather all the dead bodies, and where could they be laid to rest? I think the Fed is getting ready to resolve the problem, I hear they're oiling the printing presses as we talk.
