05.16.12
California to Ted: We love you, too
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Mysteriously, Ted uncorks on California in his latest column at the WaTimes. But no mention of his swearing at the ladies on CBS last week:
In addition to business-killing taxes and regulations, California has the third-highest state income tax in the nation, the nation’s highest sales tax and the highest gas taxes in America.
Get this: Roughly half of California’s income taxes are paid by just 1 percent of California’s residents. It’s no wonder the most productive people are leaving the state each year as more bloodsuckers move in …
The way out of this mess would be painful. Massive cuts would be required, services slashed, and agencies gutted and eliminated …
[Always incompetent, Ted either doesn’t know or ignores the fact that thousands of public sector workers have been laid off in California since 2008. Austerity hasn’t worked for reasons explained everywhere else.]
Liberalism has failed around the world, and it has failed here, too.
Yes, its a state of bloodsuckers of the classic type described by Ayn Rand, pulling down the powerful job creators and intellects. And I am one of them. As you can plainly see I leech on the work of the producers, like Ted Nugent in the above video, to get views and laughs on YouTube.
Ted knows the Republican Party is dogfood in California. The demographics of the state, where the majority of the people live — on the coasts and in the cities, do not support it. Much of this can be laid at the feet of the party’s antipathy to the Hispanic population.
It’s plainly seen as the party of bigots, an issue very vaguely addressed by Republican ex-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an editorial run in the LA Times a couple weeks back:
It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door …
Most of Schwarzenegger’s editorial was devoted to lamenting how the GOP has turned into a party of extremists, opposed to getting anything done while rooting out everyone who doesn’t possess a Tea Party far right purity.
It’s marginalized the party in California. However, through state law which requires a two-thirds majority to pass any budget legislation, its members have effectively stymied all attempts to rectify California’s monetary crisis, much as the filibuster has been used in the Senate to halt national government.
Schwarzenegger faced this all through his tenure as governor. His own party ruined any attempt at government, in effect ruining his run and reputation as a politician and public servant of any merit.
Schwarzenegger, again writing only non-specifically about his problems with the party:
I bumped up against that rigidity many times as governor. Not surprisingly, the party wasn’t always too happy with me. But I had taken an oath to serve the people, not my party. Some advisors whose opinions I respect urged me to consider leaving the party and instead identify myself as a “decline to state” voter …
An inclusive party would welcome the party’s most conservative activists right alongside its most liberal activists. There is room for those whose views, I think, make them sound like cavemen. And there is also room for us in the center, with views the traditionalists probably think make us sound like progressive softies.
Note the waffle through insertion of the “I think” bit. It’s only my opinion guys. Please don’t kill me, Ted-like folks.