The main goal of "starving the government", a goal babbled on about by an endless parade of white republicans with nice shoes and short hair is being realizzed in California.
The state's finacial situation is so bad that the Republican Governator has dared to live the Republicans dream: eliminating all services for the poor.
I call it "Norquisting".
The head of California's senate announced late Friday that the legislature reached an agreement with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over the state budget and closing its 19.1 billion dollar deficit.
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"These are very difficult circumstances in difficult times," Steinberg said, according to The Sacramento Bee. "Not a lot of celebrating. But we all stepped up and did the work we had to do."
"We did the work we had to do" spoken like a truly responsible serious adult.
I am sure the poor babies were just so worn out from making the hard decisions they had no more energy to celebrate.
The article re-reports what this "hard work" and "hard decisions" really are: Cutting the poor off and tossing them out into the cold. The Norquist Plan.
These plans were the Governator's original plans back in May which included cutting off as many services to the poor as can be found and includes
12.4 billion dollars in spending cuts, including the elimination of California's welfare-to-work program and virtually all child care for low income families.
There's a $19 billion deficit and 2/3 of it will be rectified by throwing millions of poor people under the bus?
The plans call for elimination of public mental health services (this is really bad) as well as all child care subsidies/assistance for the low income (colloquially known as "the Poor").
That's responsible, serious, adult politics. That's making the tough decisions.
That's protecting the rich from the poor.
That's Grover Norquist and Rush Limbaugh and a parade of teabagging, republicans accomplishing their dream.
They hate the poor, they hate helping people who aren't white and already rich (and who are dirty fucking hippies).
If this goes through expect an uptick in robbery and other crimes as more and more people are put up against the wall, forced into a survival mode.
The Governator is wrong, the republicans are wrong, the responsible serious adults are wrong.
Taxes have to be increased, social programs have to be expanded,jobs must be created: cutting services for the poor over and over and over just ins't going to make proper government run and the teabaggers and other republicans, per The Great Bernie Sanders, they just want to screw you into the ground: they do NOT want America to succeed. They WANT Americans to fail.
Republicans represent the rich. Period.
They don't represent millions of people who identify with them, who vote for them, who send them money. They USE them and laugh.
They represent the super-rich who HATE social services, who HATE paying taxes, who HATE government and it's power to regulate and protect the small fish they do not have any use for.
This impending savaging of California's poor is a big fat wet dream of theirs, many years in the making.
They have succeeded in shrinking government in California.
As goes California, so often goes America.