The Sacramento political class rushes these bills through Congress, as if the State Controller will just look a glance as say, "Pass!" They ram their bills through like lazy students who have partied all month on Mom and Dad's dole, only to buckle down the night before to finish the research paper that would take a reasonable man a week to prepare.
The 2012-2013 budget is full of the same hype and tripe which floats around on easy gimmicks, rosy predictions growing cloudier by the minute, and minimized cuts which will not end the dominance of the state at the expense of the individual or small businesses.
Senate budget committee chairman Mark Leno of San Francisco described the budget passed from the Senate as "a budget which is painful yet hopeful, sobering yet with vision.""
I think these legislators need to sober up and give up the kool-aid "hope" which has drugged them to ignoring the increased pain weighing on the state.
The voters in California demand a responsible budget, not a hodge-podge of failures which tie together less money for the same number of services, like pouring a bathtub of red ink into a thimble and believing that nothing will spill out.
The deluge is upon us. The state is broke, and no one wants to fix it.
"The bill is filled with borrowing and gimmicks," said State Senator Bill Emmerson of Riverside. How many of us are tired of hearing about "borrowing" and "gimmicks"? When will this insanity cease?
Perhaps Michigan Governor Rich Snyder should nominate one of his independent auditors to take over and cut what is bleeding over the rim of fiscal solvency.
No one in the majority will touch anything deep enough to enact the necessary austerity measures. The time has come to put an end to this fussy nonsense. Austerity is the word that we must get used to, or we can be sure that there will be nothing left to cut.
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