Comments on: California Faces $42 Billion Shortfall

CBS Evening News: Largest U.S. State Could Be Out Of Cash By February

[robtoy55]

I heard on another network that Arnold wants to cut the school year by a week but refuses to cut benefits for illegals. California is getting what they deserve! When I was a child I was taught that you put back when times are good for the lean times around the corner. How did a whole country forget that!?

[inhaled_not]

""And the Bushit administration with their lah-de-da attitude about the millions of illegals swarming into California and demanding services hasn''''t helped either. Let the uber-rich of Mexico send some financial aid to California! We''''ve solved their overpopulation problem for too long!""U have that right friend but as you will soon learn there is plenty of blame to go around with both parties. Obama will do nothing about this either

[inhaled_not]

""Ten percent is somebody''s car payment, or their gas bill," said state employee Crystal Johnson. "Please stop picking on us. We do your work and we''re good employees""

Ya and alot of people do not have a job. LET CALIFORNIA FAIL it might start a much needed trend towards states having to live within their means. To many spotted owl and environmental projects. Better suck it up Arnold you asked for the Job you DO IT!!

[hunterdon6]

1 month before they run out of money, they finally realize it! Too many benefits for too many people. Cut the freebies and cut the top levels of state government that got California into this problem. Starting with the GOV.

[nojoy01]

Posted by oftencensord at 08:17 AM : Jan 04, 2009

Better idea. Let them ''borrow'' money by selling ''treasury notes'' to any state that is running a surplus. And then, in forty or fifty years when everybody owes everything to everybody else, all the states can just declare bankruptcy and start all over again. This solution is simple, keeps the money ''in the family'', and serves as a jobs program for bookkeepers and accountants.

[nazdackster]

Ha Ha, California! I guess all those refuge city policies, lax immigration enforcement and uber green "savings" are really paying off! Hilarious.

I guess it hasn''t occurred to you yet, you shouldn''t have been spending all that money on "services" all along...? Let them freeze in the dark.

[nojoy01]

The most unfortunate and unjustly maligned President last Century was Jimmy Carter. The 14% interest rates and higher inflation was not his fault. He just happened to be President when the economy adjusted to the Trillion dollar progams that were packaged together under the mistitled concept of ''welfare''. And yes, between 1964 when the programs began to be passed by congress and 1976 when Carter became President, a Trillion dollars had been spent on ''welfare''. I do not doubt that the programs were necessary and generally provided needed relief for many of this countrys'' less fortunate citizens. And I would vote for them again, if necessary, but IT HAS TO BE PAID FOR. NOTHING that the government ''gives'' you/us is ever ''free''. write that backwards on your forehead so you can read it when you look in the mirror.

[unlresources]

OK, get ready to bend over America. Due to the success in getting taxpayer bailouts to pay for the private business failings, here comes the states jockeying for your taxpayer money for another bailout. When will these bailouts stop? Incompetence run amok and all the way down to the state level now. Do you feel it yet? That''s your keester being stretched by another well-deserved bailout compliments of the U.S. Congress.

[nojoy01]

''...This did not happen over night if you are spending more than you are taking in something has to be cut as soon as it starts...''

Posted by zzy-izzy at 05:57 AM : Jan 04, 2009

You are absolutely right zzy-izzy, this did not happen over night. It began 40+ years ago when the voters in California believed the politicians that they (the voters) could have all of these wonderful FREE public services. They are ''free'' because the government is paying for them. And the lesson here is that you can have any public assistance program you want from the government but somebody, somewhere, sometime, has to pay for it. And Forty years later the bill has come due.

[longtree-2009]

and california is yet to make spending cuts across the board. legislators were recently buying new state cars to the tune of up to 50K. california has not laid off any state employees to date. in california you won''t find legislators or state employees in lines at food banks or homeless shelters. arnold is a total loss as a ceo. cut, cut, cut spending is what california needs to do. instead they will raise taxes, fees on the people of california, who are already hurting economically, who happen to be fortunate enough to still be employed. if things are so bad why aren''t state employees being laid off. there are approximately 240K state employees who seem to be protected species along with arnold and legislators. the rest of the people of california are their serfs, their proletariats, their slaves.