California Bailout

[Ame®icano]

We are talking lot about bailouts these days. Even that links are old, its becoming active again.

California's requestion $7B bailout money from federal government.

Bailout California? - MSNBC

Bailout California - FOXB

New Jersey has the same problems as California. Should Federal Gov. bailout States?

 

[wihosa]

Going to need money from somewhere. The Governator's innitiatives are going down as they should. I can't tell what they would do and I'm voting no on all of them. Looks like it will be up to the legislature to do their own job.

 

[Gunny]

Going to need money from somewhere. The Governator's innitiatives are going down as they should. I can't tell what they would do and I'm voting no on all of them. Looks like it will be up to the legislature to do their own job.

Try deporting all those illegals sucking off the infrastructure there. The simple fact is, no matter what kind of snow job they sell, the burden to taxpayers cannot be sustained.

 

[editec]

Isn't giving control to the states what the right wingers all want?

How better to give control to the states than to give them money so they can apply it to the things they need?

 

[WiseOldMan]

California doesn't need a bailout from the federal government.

It needs to be paid back. 22 cents of every dollar paid to the feds from California tax payers is used to benefit some broke-ass red state who can't pull their own weight.

That's welfare.


California would be better off an independent nation. It would literally rival the other 49 states combined in terms of GDP.


Without California, the USA drops several pegs on the global economic scale.



What has Alabama done?

 

[Toro]

California is a basket-case.

California has a unique combination of features which, individually, are shared by other states but collectively cause dysfunction. These begin with the requirement that any budget pass both houses of the legislature with a two-thirds majority. Two other states, Rhode Island and Arkansas, have such a law. But California, where taxation and budgets are determined separately, also requires two-thirds majorities for any tax increase. Twelve other states demand this. Only California, however, has both requirements.

If its representative democracy functioned well, that might not be so debilitating. But it does not. Only a minority of Californians bother to vote, and those voters tend to be older, whiter and richer than the state’s younger, browner and poorer population, says Steven Hill at the New America Foundation, a think-tank that is analysing the options for reform.

Those voters, moreover, have over time “self-sorted” themselves into highly partisan districts: loony left in Berkeley or Santa Monica, for instance; rabid right in Orange County or parts of the Central Valley. Politicians have done the rest by gerrymandering bizarre boundaries around their supporters. The result is that elections are won during the Republican or Democratic primaries, rather than in run-offs between the two parties. This makes for a state legislature full of mad-eyed extremists in a state that otherwise has surprising numbers of reasonable citizens.

California: The ungovernable state | The Economist

 

[Zoomie1980]

Isn't giving control to the states what the right wingers all want?

How better to give control to the states than to give them money so they can apply it to the things they need?

IT's up to them to get their own money and spend only what they get. Two enormous problems in California that they have to give up.

1) The state worker's union pensions all have to go.

2) All social services to illegal immigrants must stop IMMEDIATELY.

Shed both of those and California's budget problems largely disappear.