California: Governor Will Slash Safety Net and Programs for Poor

Wow.

Don't hit a pig on the nose.  

It gets them really mad.   California's governor who held the line for the wealthy, keeping them from the slightest hint of higher taxes for nearly 6 years now is taking out his rage and frustration on the poor of the state.  See LA Times "Poor would be hard hit by proposed California budget cuts "

I guess he thinks that will also help him win that Republican nomination in 2012, too as most people perceive poverty in CA as being experienced by some kind of lazy dark skinned minorities.

(The latest time Schwarzenegger blocked tax on the wealthy was just late last fall when he blocked a budget passed by the Democratic legislature with a hint of tax increase on their cushioned asses that may have belatedly started to undo the damage of California's many decades of kissing those velvety posteriors).

What is amazing in the quest by the right wing and "centrist" to keep a minimal tax increase from the posh doorsteps of our well to do is the fact that a large part of the upper class are involved with Wall Street and the Tech industry formerly known as Dot Commies to Republicans.   But to the right, I guess, if it's rich, it must be protected.

Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times shows how the Governator himself is responsible for most of deficit the state is now seeing because of his vehicle tax promise that got him elected in 2003.

In 2003 Gray Davis was ousted and Schwarzenegger installed on a narrow margin in a campaign that featured his clownish act of taking a broom around the state saying he would clean up Sacramento and cut costs a governmental jihad of his that turned out to be mainly a program of installing unemployed cronies in low work positions with 6 figure salaries as well detailed by columnist Steve Lopez in Toss one of those plum posts to me, governor.   Those posts were also given to some Democrats with connections to help him get the 22nd amendment changed so he could run for president, and other cases have been documented by the same paper of Democrats and Republicans being wildly over expansive with their expense accounts.  But the point is that Schwarzenegger did not clean up Sacramento, and his other primary reason for being governor (that he admitted) has been shown to be one of the major reasons for California's dangerous problems as shown by Hiltzik yesterday in Schwarzenegger missed his golden opportunity to give Californians the truth .

Excerpt from above :

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.

Of course, Schwarzenegger's major duty was to keep the rich from being taxed, and that he has fulfilled well.  It's just that he forgot to tell Californians about that one.

Now that Mr. Hollywood's governance has the state on the brink of disaster after the middle and working classes refused to finance his self-rescue plan, he's going to take it out of the skin of the poorest and most vulnerable citizens.  

I'm wondering if he'll get some lamp shades out of it for himself.

They say that it takes 2 million dollars to get a petition drive going (like for a recall election) few people on the streets with the sheets should be able to pick up the required signatures within days.

Lets think about it.

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