California is broke, busted, dead in the water.
We are BILLIONS of dollars in debt. And as you may have heard , we are still doing REally Stupid Stuff like giving a major company for the working class in Brisbane TAX BREAKS to move to massive gang violence Fresno area,,,and destroy the Brisbane economy!!
It isn't just that we voted in fiscally and financially irresponsible Republican and Democrat Legislators to Sacramento. But if you watch "ENRON" the movie/dvd , we had a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR-a string of loser-republican governors who did not like the public and did very little public speaking to lead the entire state together- Grey DAVIS who promised us IF WE DEREGULATED the price of home gas and electric would go down. The energy market natural capitalist forces would do this by the rule of economic supply and demand. It sounded too good to be true,,, and it was.
We went from being the wealthy state with the best public K-12 schools, road and highway surface maintenance, and best bond rating in the USA ,,, to now our roads are full of potholes and we are rated one of the WORST in K_12 public schools, road and highways surfaces, and bond ratings. Last year the budget was again late, 25 of the last 30 years--MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST FLUSH SACRAMENTO AND START OVER FRESH?- and i cost us Californians something like 56 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY ,,, FOR 100 DAYS,,,so 100 x $56,000,000.00 ,,, and the really sad thing is , we do not have the tax base to be that financially frivolous anymore.
Yes, California is STILL making MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES, but with the Bush era tax cuts for the rich extended again and again after President Obama's election and then after his first 2 years, we are in terrible shape, with little hope, other than the new Governor, Jerry Brown, the only candidate who was not going to give away the rest of the state to the sole benefit of corporations. Thank GOD!! those 2 women lost!!
As i said, it would be news worthy if PBS discussed this hard difficult divisive-rich-vs-the rest of us issue,instead of the mind-numbing safe and boring and timid discussions of "is the mood changing in Pakistan after the assassination" ,,, I am very afraid Obama will continue to be too weak and we will make the same mistakes we have made here in California , but on a much bigger scale in the Nation.
The Democrats are good at doing next to nothing and the Republicans don't like the truth with their strong support of trickle down economics-failed!!- and deregulation-failed!!- and too big to fail- yep,FAILED and they say still threatens us with the real poor house nationhood like corrupt and incompetent Mexico.
But as long as the sun is still shining , we have to go to work to pay the bills. And our collective future does not look bright at all. Can we really postpone, again, the debt ceiling until ,,, August?! Congress is sooo irresponsible and we the Public are responsible for That.
