Holy Californication!
I did not participate in the latest California special election. The ballot measures failed this time and I see a trend coming where most ballot measures will fail in future.
Hardly anyone voted. In our defense, we did not vote because we're tired of our legislature and governor sloughing off the tough decisions to the ballot box. We're tired of our tax money going to pay for special elections and for the judicial defense or implementation of deformed and unworkable initiatives that thrive in this toxic wilderness. We're tired of the 2/3rd vote process that has spawned a do nothing legislature. We're disgusted with the results of Reaganomics and trickle down, terminator governance. I'm tired of the short sighted, clueless Californians that voted for these mediocre actors. Hey, these guys were/are actors! Someone directs them and it isn't the "people."
Californians shoulder one of the highest tax burdens in the USA and we are furious that these billions are not enough to put together a decent budget, one that does not have a multi billion dollar shortfall. It was this fury that ousted former gov, Grey Davis. Arnold pressed hard on this raw nerve.
".., he uttered the same lies about state government and proposed the same nostrums as many of his predecessors: Californians are overtaxed and underserved, the budget can be balanced by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, etc. Like everyone else who has made these claims, he never delivered on his promise.
His cut in the car tax cost the state $3.6 billion per year, making him directly responsible for pretty much all of today's $21-billion budget deficit." Michael Hiltzik - Los Angeles Times article, "Schwarzenegger Missed His Golden Opportunity.."
So, we're mad. So now what?
