The Silicon Valley and San Jose Business Journal released poll results today that show 42-percent of respondents blame Democrats for the current California budget crisis.
- %26 blamed the voters
- %16 blamed Republicans
- %13 blamed Governor arnold Schwarzenegger
One poll repsondent wrote, “There is no question that the Republicans contributed by being an ineffective minority party and (Gov. Arnold) Schwarzenegger contributed by caving into the Democrats, but the Democrats are, and have been, the party in power and bear the ultimate responsibility for our state legislative body’s staggering irresponsibility.
“If we vote these same Democrats into office again (or like minded legislators) in the next election cycle, it will then be our (voters) responsibility and we will truly deserve the mess.”
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Say What!!!! The problem is the corrupt Politicians, like Buchanan and weak Republicans, addicted to Union bribe money, would love remove the 2/3 requirements until nobody but the Union thugs and their elitist friends could afford to live in California. Good news is, even the liberals are starting to figure out that overpaid government workers with unsustainable 90% pension will bankrupt any state.
Below is my list of California reforms, not the crap that Buchanan is feeding to the gullible:
(1) STOP PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS FROM CONTRIBUTING (IE BRIBING POLITICIANS). The taxpayer pays the government worker who funds the union who bribes the politicans to increase benefits to bankrupt the taxpayer. WHAT A SYSTEM!!
(2) STOP FUNDING ILLEGAL ALIENS. Illegal aliens are destroying the schools, filling up the prisons, sucking up the social services, overloading the infrastruture. Who with any common sense couldn’t figure out that eventually we would have millions of uneducated people on welfare once the economy tanked? Not Buchanan obviously
(3) REDISTRICT NOW!! California has more disenfranchised voters than any other state due to the ridiculous redistricting. How? Well, some of the nuttiest left wing socialists barely has 80,000 voters in their districts, other more competitve districts (mostly Republicans) have up to 500,000. Yet, they each get 1 representative. TALK ABOUT VOTING DISENFRANCHISMENT!! Forget about somebody not getting to the polls on election day, THIS CORRUPT SYSTEM IS DISENFRANCHCHISEMENT EVERYDAY!!!
Funny how you never hear this issues discussed by the Buchanan Puppet Politicians. Buchanan and her ilk would love to remove the last few roadblocks to absolute control like the California InitIatives and 2/3 majority to tax. She thinks you voters are much to stupid to be in control of your lives when Comrade Buchanan and friends can do it so much better.
~ EDITOR NOTE — This comment was originally in reply to June 1 post http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/focus-on-california-budget-crisis/
I would never think to put so many caveats on the truth such as you suggest.
Do not confuse those who produce wealth with those that hoard it.
Do not confuse the readership when 25% of the electorate bother to vote and then 65% of those that bothered to vote vote in one way or another, then leap to pronounce that 65% of the Californian voters .
While I was amongst the mass of those that voted and voted against the propositions it was not about increased taxes or decreased corporate taxes or more gubbermint incompetence, I simply considered the whole thing as a corrupt bargain. There was this strange confluence of the Left and the Right both voting it down for their own reasons (both different) that yielded the same effect. However considering that the fringes have a far higher voter turnout, that was probably more key to the super majority rejection of 1A-E. I should also point out that the key lead prop: 1A as well as several of the others were NOT supported by the main Democratic party as per the Vote in the Dem’s State Convention held several weeks before the election.
Yes people who produce wealth in the Bay Area are fed up with Democrats.
And %65 percent of Californian voters voted against Props 1A-B-C-D-E-F and increased taxes with nothing (nada, zip zero) to show for it but more gubbermint incompetence.
The poll in question is from the Business Journal readership. Let me guess what the base electorate of such a poll is/// hmmmm… like maybe mostly Republican Conservatives? Could be….
Now where do you think a poll of say the Educators Journal would put the blame?
So let us not talk about THE poll, let us be accurate and talk about a poll of a Business Journal’s membership.
You have to always be amused by politics as it is the most expensive form of entertainment your money is forced to buy.