Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
June 29, 2009 – “While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation’s economy – California.”
July 1, 2009 – “GM to Stop Making Cars in California”
Green’s agenda – in a word, sabotage.
A better juxtaposition:
June 29, 2009 – “While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation’s economy – California.”
July 2, 2009 – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency and ordered state offices closed three days a month to save money as state officials plan to pay bills with IOUs starting Thursday.
treasure trove of lefty sociliast extremism happening right now. Amazing how well paid are the leaders of all this . . .
http://www.undueinfluence.com/guide.htm
What a model! California’s projected state government expenditures for this year are U$149.9 billion; local government expenditures, U$267.4 billion. That’s a total of U$417.3 billion. California’s population is 37 million. That’s U$11,278 per person in state and local government spending. Unemployment was 11.5% in May. The schools don’t work. The roads don’t work. Public transit doesn’t work. Now the various unions of state and local government employees are pushing for higher taxes, even though in May the voters rejected six measures to raise taxes.
The worst thing part is that I strongly suspect that Obama knows most of these things, but he still thinks California should be the economic model for the USA.
Reckless spending and burdensome regulation works so well in California that we should try the same thing with the federal government.
Mike… It would appear that is in the works if we listen to what Jim Prentice is planning.
Kate, as you would say:
Heh.
Hey ~~ for all my friends, just wanted to wish everyone a great Canada Day. Have a brewski for me 🙂
Good one Amy P ~~
It would have been better for GM to refuse the so-called “bailout”, file Chapter 11, restructure their debt and operations, thub their nose at maobama’s nigh-impossible CAFE standards, and then unilaterally refuse to sell cars to california, where the lunatic enviro legislation is too stiff a manufacturing price to bear
The losers from all this obama automotive meddling are the consumers: the only way to get to 35mpg in the next 7-8 years are to drastically cut weight from the vehicles, and this means smaller, more flimsy cars. Several studies from the insurance institute, MIT and even USAToday have all concluded this means more roadside accidents and deaths as a result.
As usual, environmentalism is killing humans. *Yawn* Who is surprised by that?
mhb23re at gmail d0t calm
Wait until Obama trys to slap tariffs on all countries and their products that him and Waxman don’t think are green enough and require penalties. To trade with the USA is like the politics he learned in Chicago; You pay you play. He will be hit with so many retalitory trade actions that Cat, Ge etc will lose all foreign business.
Rasmussin polls indicate than BamBam’s popularity is tanking…..31% strongly approve while 33% strongly disprove…..
BamBam’s support of the Honduran interdicted coup now makes sense…..
BamBam himself could shortly face impeachment …..This state of affairs cannot continue….
BamBam is fully aware americans are revolting people (no pun intended)………
Oh, you are still bashing Obama and his reckless spending… How boring. When are you going to actually do something about reckless spending in Canada?
aaron – kindly provide some examples.
I wonder if my leftie brother and his leftier wife are starting to wake-up from their Ogabe cheerleading yet? When he loses his pipeline engineering job because they can’t export Fort Mac oil south any longer they may finally catch on.
I tried to warn them last summer but I was told I was just a hater. After all, Opraaaaaah approved Ogabe, and she is the supreme Authority right?
Program spending has risen from $175 billion to $225 billion since 2006.
ET:
It might be easier to note what you consider to be non-reckless spending since there have been few areas of life that haven’t been touched by federal spending.
Our own little community received a $1.5 million dollar boathouse courtesy of Alberta/Ontario taxpayers. And recently called for proposals for use now that it is built. But who refuses free money?
Others might mention parades, arts and crafts , or any number of things, but really, do you see any politicians belt tightening in Ottawa, in any way, shape or form? Or is it all the coalition’s fault?
Has Canada’s own little prostitute, Quebec, seen any change in how the feds operate? Will they ever? Not until they are not needed for a majority.
I vote Conservative, if I can find one. Otherwise I stay home. I stay home a lot. Otherwise, you just encourage them.
I worked for a large manufacturer that could not compete with China.
The bottom line was, we couldn’t even buy the steel (our steel was being used in china) for what china could make the finished product for. It was even estimated that if the employees started paying the company, for the privilege of working. China was still cheaper, because of the benefits the company offered.
The truth is, the auto industry only exists because of protectionism, certain amount of the car has to be made in north America by law, this kept the manufacturing here.
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via new york times…
“LOS ANGELES – Its budget gap growing and its political process
for addressing the gap unhinged, California will begin Thursday
to pay vendors and taxpayers with iou’s…”
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Just received the latest tax bill from the local government. Included was a flier containing a report on the spending. The spending chart was exponential, police being the largest recipient. This is in a municipality which is overwhelmingly privately owned houses, but has one of the Canada’s highest murder rates. Sounds like paradox? Not to me. Call police and they will go out of their way to ignore your concerns and smear you in the process, all to protect the actual criminals, specially if they are a visible minority majority.
Take for example the recent shooting where two young men shot the third one in a school yard and were charged with assault. On the contrary, a high school student who pulled a knife on his bullies was charged with attempted murder. Of course, shooting someone just tickles. Speaks volumes about where organized crime has police! These are not the droids drug dealers you are looking for.
The schools are dominated with socialist types, who are going out of their way to hug a criminal. They will ignore the bullies to make things look shiny. The criminals are not stupid, they learn the lesson and once out of school, they continue probing the society, realizing at every turn that their mischief is being ignored:
All while we send money to Africa. No, that’s not just Jack Layton’s thing! The money keep flowing, and Canadians keep dying for lack of 911 operators. But the city will build you a theatre as a reward! It takes just 50 million bucks of our property taxes to have an opera theatre in downtown Brampton, so why not having at it?
So, to answer your question, ET – the examples are around you, you just have to switch from tunnel vision, focused on an overseas political figure, to the things in your neigbourhood.
You do this so well Kate.
What a pack of liars just like Parliment.
Only a form of mental degeneracy could account for a choice like this to base a federal policy on.
Indroducing economic failure & knowing it.
Was I suffering a fit of delusion when I heard that California will set the emission standards for the auto industry? I would blame bad shellfish but I am allergic. Pajamas Media had an interview with the gov. of Texas. They meet every second year and have a surplus of about 9 billion. Maybe that is the answer..tell the pols to go home.
“…reckless spending in Canada?”
ET: “aaron – kindly provide some examples.”
How about a $447,000 grant to the Canadian Arab Federation?
Considering their general atipathy and belligerance towards Canadian values, I’d log that as ‘reckless spending’.
I enjoyed the irony of that piece of GM news too.
No Guff
“The Canadian government is seeking to ensure that it does not support racist, terrorist or hate groups – and has already stripped the Canadian Arab Federation of a $447,000 grant.”
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/canadian-government-strips-caf-of-447000-grant/
How about a $447,000 grant to the Canadian Arab Federation?
Not any more. Jason Kenney cut them off.
When you call the guy who holds the purse strings a “professional whore” as the leader of the CAF did, it may affect your funding.
Nobody in their right mind would make a major investment in California given California’s NIMBY approach to power plants.
Wait until their lites start going out and see what happens.