Post by jgaffney on Jun 23, 2010 12:16:56 GMT -5
Patrick Dorinson has a good article at Fox and Hounds Daily describing California as "Athens on the Pacific.":
When the budget was announced State Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg summoning his best liberal talking points and anger said, "What kind of civilized society maintains business tax breaks and eliminates child care? That's not the California that I recognize or take pride in living in."
What kind of a society spends itself into oblivion with no regard where the money is coming from and tries to fund a welfare state?
What kind of a society cripples its businesses with regulations, drives out others with high costs, and relies on the success of its wealthy to pay the state's bills?
What kind of a society annually sends its vendors of goods and services "IOUs" putting folks out of work becasue the legislature is incapable of doing its job?
What kind of society allows its infrastructure to decay to the point where the price for fixing it is unattainable?
What kind of a society puts saving a small fish, the Delta Smelt, ahead of the lives and livelihoods of its citizens as it chokes off the lifeblood of any civilization--water?
Perhaps we grew up in different places because that's not the California I recognize or take pride in living in Senator Steinberg.
Remember to vote yes on the redistricting plan this November.
When the budget was announced State Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg summoning his best liberal talking points and anger said, "What kind of civilized society maintains business tax breaks and eliminates child care? That's not the California that I recognize or take pride in living in."
What kind of a society spends itself into oblivion with no regard where the money is coming from and tries to fund a welfare state?
What kind of a society cripples its businesses with regulations, drives out others with high costs, and relies on the success of its wealthy to pay the state's bills?
What kind of a society annually sends its vendors of goods and services "IOUs" putting folks out of work becasue the legislature is incapable of doing its job?
What kind of society allows its infrastructure to decay to the point where the price for fixing it is unattainable?
What kind of a society puts saving a small fish, the Delta Smelt, ahead of the lives and livelihoods of its citizens as it chokes off the lifeblood of any civilization--water?
Perhaps we grew up in different places because that's not the California I recognize or take pride in living in Senator Steinberg.
Remember to vote yes on the redistricting plan this November.
