Senator Lieu -- Did You Really?

Senator Lieu, I cannot believe that you passed another budget in Sacramento filled with "borrowing and gimmicks".

Give me a break!

Enough with the "Give Me's", please! The governor wants to enact sweeping cuts to welfare, which would actually improve the welfare of everyone in the state. Why should we burden hard-on-their-luck individuals with long-lines and dehumanizing bureaucracy just so they can get a "hand-out" from the state? All of this money just pushes up inflation, which makes it hard for anyone to buy anything, which makes it harder for businesses to open up, expand, and hire.

There is plenty of work, of money, of opportunity, Senator, but you need to leave well enough alone and stop making it easier for people not to live by the means and the talents which they possess in greater number.

Do you really believe that the majority of voters are going to support a tax increase this November? A Higher sales tax will mean fewer sales. A higher percentage of taxes on the wealthy will scare the wealth out of the state and into tax shelters, with neither the business class of the unemployed seeing any benefit.

The November tax increase will not do any good, even if it does pass. The state will not collect any more revenues. The political class has no more money to play with. They cannot keep passing around air and IOUs, hoping that some fairy will touch down and transform every redwood into easy green for us to spend.

I have to ask you, Senator. . ."What the hell are we paying you for?"

A better question. . .What they hell are we going to pay you with?"

There is no budgeting with thin air. There is no budgeting if the lawmakers are depending on initiatives months from now that may or may not pass. This kind of billing and passing is a bill of goods that simply does not pass the scratch and sniff test.

If you have to cut everything, then so be it. I see no purpose in a legislature that sits around and speculates on how much to spend when the money to speculate with is all gone. All gone.