Californians get the government they deserve

[Little-Acorn]

Something I wrote last November after the election:

On Nov. 2, 2010, Californians passed a state ballot initiative lowering the 2/3 requirement for passing a budget, down to 1/2. They were fooled by a provision in the initiative, saying that if legislators failed to pass a budget by the required deadline (as they have failed year after year), the legislators would lose their pay until the budget was passed.

What wasn't pointed out, was that every year, the legislators could simply cobble up a one-page "budget" saying we are going to build ten copies of Disneyland out in the desert, and nothing else. Vote on it, pass it, it goes to the governor who will of course veto it. And the requirement is fulfilled: The legislature passed a "budget" on time, so they don't lose any pay. Meantime, the state still doesn't have a budget.

But that ballot initiative has, as I said, the main provision, lowering the required majority to 50% plus 1. Now the liberal Democrats infesting the legislature will be able to hike spending to stratospheric heights. And the minority Republicans will no longer be able to stop them, as they have stopped them in the past. And the new/old Governor Moonbeam can be counted on to sign every one of those spending programs.

BTW, the deadline for the legislature to pass a budget, is June 15 of each year.

Fast forward to June 16, 2011.

Yesterday the California state legislature passed a budget, which even their fellow Dems say wasn't balanced.

Today the governor vetoed it.

But the legislature won't lose any pay, since they passed a "budget" by the deadline.

(sigh)

Now comes the huge increases in spending programs...........

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/california-budget-veto-bill-lockyer.html

 

[TruthSeeker]

Something I wrote last November after the election:

BTW, the deadline for the legislature to pass a budget, is June 15 of each year.

Fast forward to June 16, 2011.

Yesterday the California state legislature passed a budget, which even their fellow Dems say wasn't balanced.

Today the governor vetoed it.

But the legislature won't lose any pay, since they passed a "budget" by the deadline.

(sigh)

Now comes the huge increases in spending programs...........

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/california-budget-veto-bill-lockyer.html

Only in California, the land of fruits and nuts.