As goes CA, so goes the nation…
[The CA Department of Finance] found multiple cases totaling $268.5 million in which departments made accounting errors showing either more or less money than the Finance Department knew about in 2011. The biggest error – a $113.3 million mistake in the state Beverage Container Recycling Fund… Errors totaling $28.8 million were found in the state Restitution Fund…
“Accounting errors”…
…Department of Parks and Recreation had cloaked [whaa? like Romulans?] nearly $54 million in two special fund accounts for more than a decade…
But The People said “NO” — with their money.
The governor previously threatened to close 70 of California’s 278 state parks to save $22 million, but his administration relented in June following an outpouring of private support. In Sacramento, for instance, the Governor’s Mansion remains open after Raley’s donated 5 cents every time shoppers brought reusable bags and the Church of Scientology of Sacramento County kicked in $25,000.
whaaa?
So how big is the problem? …so far
Officials found 68 accounts in which bottom lines varied by at least $1 million. …[Totalling so far] more than $286.5 million
$422.7 million in discrepancies at the Public Utilities Commission … $12.5 million for cleaning up underground petroleum tanks … $30 million for health-care programs …
Undaunted — unem-bareassed — Old Uncle Jerry forges on to push his signature Ballot Initiative to raise taxes and outsource the producers and small businesses to other states.
Quoting from the New Testament and with his dog Sutter by his side, Gov. Jerry Brown formally kicked off his campaign Wednesday for Proposition 30.
Brown cast the November ballot measure, which would temporarily raise sales taxes and impose an income surcharge on California’s highest earners, as a choice between requiring the wealthiest residents to pay more and losing about $6 billion from public schools and universities.
Yanno — the UC system where a lecturer is paid $50K – %140K, Professors up to $178K and administrators. And the Head Coach at Berekeley makes around $2,349,037.96. [the Chancellor only made $416K* -- but also gets a free "historic" mansion, car allowance, etc...][and the "students" come out dumber than when they went in]
“It’s about taking money from the most blessed and giving it to the schools,”…
“Most blessed“??!?
“To those who much has been given, much will be required,” Brown said
“You didn’t build that!”
“I quote Luke in the gospels and what was good 2,000 years ago is good today.”
So I can burn in my fireplace on “Scare Teh Air” days. tkx.
[Lest we forget, Jerry is a former Jesuit seminarian]
[Lest we forget, Jerry is a former Jesuit seminarian]
The governor’s tax measure would hike income taxes on couples making $500,000 or more for seven years…
“seven years” bwaaahahahahahahhahahahaaaaa
“I’ve gone throughout California and asked people if I could give you a salary next year of $1 million, would you be willing to pay another $4,500 in taxes?” Brown said. “I’ve not met one person who would turn down that deal.”
That there is the Jesuit Logykk Training shining through.
Brown became testy [old men will do that....] when asked whether recent financial mismanagement in the parks department, and hundreds of millions of dollars in accounting errors discovered elsewhere, might make voters reluctant to trust Sacramento with more of their tax dollars.
When government proves to be flawed, he said, “What do we do? Do we dismantle the schools? Do we end the Highway Patrol? Do we open the prison doors?” Proposition 30 is “an opportunity to say yes to our schools. This is not about any other issues…. It’s not about parks.”
Or do we get rid of the over 500 Boards and Commissions like the Commission on the Status of Women that are simply pay-off jobs for ex-legislators and croneys?
There are no guaranteed funds for schools in Prop 30: all that money goes would have gone into the General Fund.
“The dirty little secret is that the new revenues are needed to backfill the insolvent teachers pension fund.”
Yanno — these guyz:
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“The dirty little secret is that the new revenues are needed to backfill the
insolventinsolent teachers pension fund.”FIFY
Some of that found money could help out the “Train to nowhere”.
I have yet to meet a single Californian that says he would vote Yes on Prop 30! Further, voters have turned down every fucking *Temp Tax Increase Proposition* that has preceded this looney notion of Moonbeam`s!
No theoretic physics expert has been able to figure out what “String Theory” parallel Universe Moonbeam lives in; including Hawkins, the female scientist`s stud date!
As has previously been herein stated, not even a Summa cum laude graduate of Helen Kellor`s Technical Institute will trust even one fucking Confederate dollar in the hands of Sacrastoopido`s yet to be criminally charged gang, variously known as The Legislature!
Fire. Them. All.
Now, how to you Porch Cali’s put u wit this crap? How long before you can recall Brown??? He is doing everything to your poor peeps that Obama wants to do nationally. If anyone needs to know what NOT getting these progressives out of power only need to look to the dictators that run Kalifornya.
Fair share. Hurump. Just read Animal Farm and it will tell you who the ‘fair share’ goes to. I call that book “Totalitarianism for Idiots”. I would be be in immediate attack mode.
What’s the sayin’, ColJ?
Out of airspeed, out of altitude, out of ideas.
Do a Reagan Air Traffic Controller move; if the teachers’ union*spit* doesn’t like it, tough shit, fire them all.
So the hippie (well they WERE hippies 30 years ago) pot smoken accountants of the California government have a bunch of accounting errors? Maybe LSD is the real problem. Or maybe Johnny can’t add over there.
Well hey…. California is the home of Hollywood and make-believe so maybe that was it… It’s all make-believe.
In this case I believe another expression is apropos:
“If you have done everything you can and you are still going to crash, wind the clock so you don`t die all tensed up!”
If it’s Brown, flush it down.
“To those who much has been given, much will be required,” Brown said I see Governor Moon
batbeam is quoting from the “Gospel of Alinsky” again. The actual quote from Matthew 25:29 (New King James Version): “For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” The quote is taken from the Parable of the Talents where a lazy servant, given a sum of money to invest by his master, hides it away – he doesn’t even bother to put it into a savings account where it would have at least earned interest. Puts quite a different spin on the quote from Governor AntiChrist (was that too strong?)Personally,
I think CA needs more Jed Clampetts.
Same stuff with the unions going on in Michigan.
This matters not for 2 reasons:
1. Moonbeam will piss it away.
2. It ain`t enuff to make a dent in ANY budget line!
With Kalifornicateya schools rating close to last in America in school kid testing, Moonbeam is dreaming if he thinks that *alibi* will help pass Prop 30!
Be interesting to see what Moonbeam comes up with, after Prop 30 fails to pass………(…and by the way, his *high speed railroad? Turns out it AIN`T a high speed railroad!!! They are not planning on laying the tracks necessary for a bullet train! Plain old regular tracks…. No fencing to keep stuff from a high speed train…
I suspect the real reason is jobs for union-weenies; certainly not for passengers that ain`t there, where they are planning to build the first section in the dust-blown Central Valley!