Comments on: California wants a piece of TARP

By: Michelle Malkin » California: The poster child for dysfunction

Michelle Malkin » California: The poster child for dysfunction — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:23:48 +0000

[...] his figurative gun to the head of the rest of the country’s taxpayers. As I noted last week, California wants TARP money. They’ll argue, as every other successful bailout recipient has, that the state is Too Big [...]

By: frontierguy

frontierguy — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:26:46 +0000

DocattheAutopsy said:
It’s not just Arnold. He had good ideas going in a Governor, but he couldn’t beat the state legislature, and the press sided against him (naturally). He was losing popularity, and then decided to be “bipartisan”, and that’s when it stop from “going downhill” to “falling off the cliff”.

Could not agree more. Arnold tried to do what Reagan did, gave the people some very common sense propositions which the people here voted against because they fell hook line and sinker for the union lies broadcast on tv 24/7. When Californians rejected the prop which would stop legislators from drawing their own districts, I realized this state, like an addict, must hit rock bottom before it can save itself. Arnold got whipped, when he saw how indoctrinated Californians are, he must have thought, if I can’t beat them, well….. How sad, Washington D.C. is making the failure that is Sacramento their model.

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Fri, 15 May 2009 19:14:02 +0000

[...] Hey, how’s that porkulus working out? and Cube-steak Americans vs. the Wagyu-beef White House and California wants a piece of TARP Tony Blankley, Rasmussen Reports: Obama Lied; The Economy Died Hot Air: Suddenly, business leaders [...]

By: Member-VRWC

Member-VRWC — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:49:42 +0000

Based on my experience:

California is a great place to be from.

By: Papa Louie

Papa Louie — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:54:24 +0000

With more debt than most third world countries combined, maybe California should apply for aid from a “lender of last resort” like the World Bank or the IMF? They seem to meet the main requirement of being unlikely to ever pay it back…

By: WarEagle82

WarEagle82 — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:49:38 +0000

Maybe Bono could do a series of benefit concerts in Africa and Asia to raise money for suffering people in California.

He could call it “Save the Stars” or “Star-Aid” or just “Drink the Kool-Aid.”

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Thu, 14 May 2009 22:42:14 +0000

[...] Michelle Malkin: California Wants a Piece of TARP [...]

By: madmonkphotog

madmonkphotog — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:12:15 +0000

I find it absolutely delicious that a state with all of those wealthy people is broke.

Oh, how I don’t hear the calls from actors to invest in Cali or to pool their own money to help their fellow man (because it ain’t Darfur or some other flavor of the month cause). The silence is deafening.

By: prendad

prendad — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:21:24 +0000

Maybe if Californians had not spent millions of dollars on sex-change operations, abortion-on-demand, chasing the Military our of town, paying school teachers to sit at home and do nothing, and protecting their salt marsh harvest mice, but I guess we all have our priorities.

By: LOBOMAN

LOBOMAN — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:20:27 +0000

One down and 49 to go…………… Oh, by the way, screw the unions!

By: WarEagle82

WarEagle82 — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:08:22 +0000

Funny how unions don’t care about the unilateral abrogation of other private contractual obligations that federal and state government officials are breaking.

And besides, bankruptcy sets aside those contractual obligations between parties. And the state of California is bankrupt, morally, politically and financially. Now they want Virginians and South Carolinians to pay for California union dues? I certainly don’t want to!

By: Southpaw

Southpaw — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:46:30 +0000

California. In Home Supportive Services.$6.7 billion Porkulus.SEIU... Follow the dots. "Union officials claim they are merely insisting that existing contracts between the unions and the State and/or Counties are followed. The SEIU and other state and county public employee unions have used their member’s mandatory dues, paid for by taxpayers, to donate millions to key legislative and initiative races around the State. The Los Angeles Times also reported the powerful SEIU set aside $1 million to support two statewide union backed 1A and 1F initiatives, both are lagging in recent polls." Marin Republican Examiner article

By: bjc

bjc — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:18:04 +0000

*I’m guessing California won’t be stepping up soon to reassert its’ 10th amendment position any time soon as other states have done; The state needs to be allowed to bleed out, then the resurrection can begin.
*And that square head of a Governor could make E-Verify mandatory for all government services, employment through employers, agencies, contractors and subs; The mass exodus south would begin, and California could have a balanced budget within 12 months.
*But no, instead they will take more of my dollars to waste, put Newsom in office, and have a gay old time, literally.

By: WarEagle82

WarEagle82 — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:06:45 +0000

Alas, the empirical evidence would tend to support that conclusion.

On May 14th, 2009 at 2:25 pm, AlohaGuy said:

They must really think we are morons…

Obama was elected, so they have reason to believe so.

By: AlohaGuy

AlohaGuy — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:25:02 +0000

They must really think we are morons…

Obama was elected, so they have reason to believe so.