My liberal buddies may get the impression that I'm a hard core conservative Republican, but that's not accurate: like many folks, I consider myself a problem solver. I look at each issue and try to figure out what would best solve the problem to the benefit of everyone, not just (or even) me.
The bottom line is that our California state government is in the hole every year in recent memory, and our leaders have more or less "kick the can down the road" each year. Budget problems are not solved, but the deck is merely re-shuffled. The losers are those truly in need. Those that don't have a union or a lobbyist to protect them get the shaft. I'm talking about the disabled, the elderly, the homeless, the mentally ill. They lose every time.
You would think that our soft-hearted left-leaning leaders would be the champions of the downtrodden, but ... not really.
Read this in our local paper from June 8, 2012: Democrats and Governor Brown Discuss $2 Billion Budget Cuts.
In the article above, Democrats are in disagreement with Gov. Brown over a proposed $2 Billion cut by Brown, hurting "the most unfortunate" amongst us. Though the dems would rather not make those cuts because they hurt the most vulnerable, they have not said where the cuts should be made.
WE CAN START CUTTING HERE: I can provide a place for them to begin. Start with continuing to tax the California rich at one of the highest state income and capital gains taxes in the country - just don't increase those taxes or they'll just leave the state. Next, cut back on pay and perks to the statewide unions - particularly the powerful prison unions - then reduce the number of folks in prison for victimless crimes, abolish the Death Penalty (too expensive and nobody gets executed), cut out the boondoggles and senseless projects (start with the $100 Billion bullet train to nowhere), and then see where those cuts take us.
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