Comments on: Cash-Strapped States Face Tough Choices

California To Use IOU's; One of 18 States Struggling With Deficits

[frankinaz]

Also time to end illegal immigration to the U. S.; not just to California, but the rest of this country as well.
Although illegal immigration may, or may not be the main cause of California's finanicial woes, it is a cost that the state, along with assistance from other Federal agencies, (Such as ICE as the INS, that can be controlled.
However, the State of California, for the most part, continues to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants, and the state's taxpayers will pay for this ignorant attitude, at the expense of the legal Californian's taxpayer expense.

[whitemale08]

I TRIED TO WARN YOU THAT MASSIVE MASSIVE AUSTERITY WOULD COME BECAUSE OF BAILOUTS TO GOLDMAN SUCKS AND JP MORGAN!!!!!

I WARNED YOU!!!!!!

[frankinaz]

Pelosi, Waxman, Feinstein all trying to do for the country what they did to California! LMAO.
Barbara (Call me "Senator") Boxer should also be included here too.

[venkata4--2008]

People calling President Obama administration doing Cali. way. When Bush administration took over he inherited 135 billions budget surplus from President Clinton. That he brought it back to 400 billions deficit in one year.

Internal debt was 5.7 trillions and Bush increased it to 11.4 trillions by funding two wars without rolling tax cuts to richest. So much for fiscal conservatism. Laughable.

Current president inherited 500 + billions budget deficit and 11.4 trillions internal debt. When Bush had budget surplus all he could think of tax cuts to richest and how to start wars so that his buddies will get no bid contracts and his big oil can reap big profits. No controls what so ever on the banking industry.

[payasyougo]

"Cash-Strapped States Face Tough Choices
California To Use IOU's; One of 18 States Struggling With Deficits"
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Tough choices like what firefighters, police or teachers to cut so that accountants, personal administration assistants, taxpayer paid parking, judge's license plates, petty cash accounts, that new modern office building, etc. won't suffer the consequences of a little blip in the tax revenue stream.

Time to "right size" government.

[frankinaz]

Also time to end illegal immigration to the U. S.; not just to California, but the rest of this country as well.
Although illegal immigration may, or may not be the main cause of California's finanicial woes, it is a cost that the state, along with assistance from other Federal agencies, (Such as ICE as the INS, that can be controlled.
However, the State of California, for the most part, continues to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants, and the state's taxpayers will pay for this ignorant attitude, at the expense of the legal Californian's taxpayer expense.

[johninpennsyl]

With the casino money rolling in and those new energy saving lightbulbs,we should be pulling out of the red shortly.

[libscrytoo]

Gravy your not careful with your stones at all.

[tautomer]

Obviously the best way out of this is to charge Californians for the Social Services they consume rather than taxing them to pay for the services. Ths does several things. First, it balances the budget. Second, It ensures that there are no freeloaders consuming more than they pay for. Finally, it will rid California of the burden of Illegal Aliens.

That way nobody is forced to pay for anyone else. Of course they can if they want to philanthropically. Liberals don't like philanthropy because the DONOR controls the money instead of them. Libs LOVE spending other peoples money!!!

[tautomer]

Gravy only has stones because some productive taxpayer paid for them.

[tautomer]

Arnold is a member of the Kennedy clan, I rest my case. Arnold however has actually been the guy proposing spending cuts with modest tax increases. California voters rejected a tax increase referendum in May 2009.

Similarly Democrats in the California State Senate have resisted spending cuts for social services as well as salary cuts for state employees.

Nor were Republicans supportive of providing social services to illegal aliens. Cali is the Bluest of the Blue States and is reaping what it sowed. Obama now has the entire nation headed down the same deficit-ridden path.