Liberal State Idiocracy: California Won’t Cut the Pork & Massachusetts Houses Homeless in Motels
California just can’t seem to beat the habit of government spending. The latest proposal coming out of the state legislature originally had $11B in cuts to state services, but that proposal was shot down. So while California burns, literally and figuratively, the state legislature sits there battling back and forth on “to cut, or not to cut.” My advice to California: cut the fat and start doing what’s best for your constituents and your state not your lobbyists, special interests, and your own pockets. I know it’s difficult for politicians, since so many have forgotten who they really work for, but it’s about time to start voting all these people out of office and voicing our concerns. California will be bankrupt before the legislature comes to a decision on the $24B budget, how sad is that?
“All of the cuts that were rejected by the majority party that the governor proposed are things that unfortunately have to be done,” he said. “We can’t afford some of those things when we’re talking about revenues that are back to where we were in 1999 or 2000.
Moody’s Investors Service has warned that California could face a “multi-notch” downgrade in its credit rating, citing the state’s expected massive shortfall for fiscal 2010 of more than 20 percent of its general fund budget and limited options for plugging it.
Schwarzenegger and lawmakers face the task of closing a $24.3 billion budget deficit for the state’s fiscal year beginning on July 1.
Besides the idiocy coming out of California, Massachusetts has also created a plan to house the homeless in motels. They aren’t housing them in motels because they are overwhelmed or out of room at shelters. No, they are paying for them to stay in motels due to complaints that the shelters didn’t have enough amenities to satisfy their needs, like kitchens, living rooms, etc. Are you kidding ME? These people are jobless, don’t pay taxes, and just become leeches on society. Not everyone, but the majority. What would be the incentive to me to make a better life and find a job if the government enabled me to live the way I have always lived and be lazy and complacent? This is the exact same problem with bailouts, welfare, unemployment benefits, and entitlements in general. This has become insane. This is not the innovative, hardworking American society that I studied and read about in school. This is not what my parents taught me or what those in our military have fought for. I’m appalled by the idiocracy that we are now calling our government and our country.
Housing Massachusetts’ homeless is costing tax payers around $2 million per month. It costs an average of $85 per night to have families, including nearly 1000 children, stay in motels.
The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness admits that the use of motels for the homeless is not ideal, but is the best that can be done at this time.
Homeless advocates are worried that families are not getting the support of shelters with living rooms, kitchens, and play areas.
Garofalo: No Protest, but Confronted…
Unfortunately, Garofalo did not experience the backlash that would have been humorous to watch. I do enjoy comedy and it would have been apropos to have seen her receive what she deserved after offending middle class America by making those prejudiced remarks.
Although Janeane was only confronted by Fox news prior to the event, unaware of what awaited her at her show, it was obvious that she was nervous about her comedy event being interrupted/disrupted by tea partiers. She was so concerned that she had to open up her act by mentioning the tea partiers as “tea-baggers” and welcomed them by saying “White Power.” Poor Janeane just doesn’t get it. It may do her some good to take a history lesson and learn that her party is more aligned with those that want “white power.” Neo-Nazi groups and White supremacy groups have always been Socialist by nature and believe in centralized government so they can force their beliefs upon others. She also forgets that her party created the KKK and tried to block all of the civil rights legislation in the 50′s and 60′s. The entitlement prorams are actually an addictive means to keep specific groups oppressed and under the thumb of the Democrats. I recently spoke to a friend who is currently on unemployment who claimed that it was almost like heroin. He could see how people could get addicted to welfare and government entitlements because he doesn’t have to work and everything gets paid for. So it seems that Ms. Garofalo can dish it out but she can’t take it – once confronted she stutters and gets upset and lashes out.
She evidently cannot really back up her comments with facts and stooped low enough lie about a sign that stated “What you talking ’bout Willis?”, which I personally doubt even existed, since it has nothing to do with liberal policies or fiscal irresponsibility – which were more along the lines of the signs being held by people. I attended a tea party in Maryland and I saw various races represented so I would love for one of these liberals to actually attend an event, speak to people, and then tell us what they think. I’m sure they would not make such slanderous and bigoted remarks if they perhaps knew what they were talking about. But as Reagan has said before: “It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t true.”
Please clue in Ms. Garofalo and let her know that making generalizations and speaking on behalf of race, and in particular blacks, as a white woman, is in fact, racist…
And just to answer your question Ms. Garofalo, many of us were upset about Bush and his spending habits and the way in which he grew government. There were already plenty of protesters against him and the war – that got way more attention that some simple tea party protesters. However, various bloggers and conservative forums were up in arms whenever he doled out more money and increased the size of the federal government. The issue came to a head after this past election though. Conservatives knew before November that Obama was a big government radical lefty who wanted a more centralized government and was going to increase spending when that is the opposite of what we should be doing right now. And just to make it fair, McCain would not have been much better… But, enough is enough in DC and on Wall Street and many of us regular “Joes” are tired of the Elite running this country into the ground. That’s what we are protesting and it doesn’t matter quite frankly if you are on the left or the right. It’s time to put the founding principles back to good use and put government back on the side of the people.
It’s too bad that Garofalo and other progressives don’t see that. It’s about the people and about the middle class – something that should concern you since we are the silent majority and the ones who pay taxes. What happens when we don’t have the means to pay them anymore? That’s why we are considered the “Forgotten Men and Women.”
Janeane Garofalo Will Get a Dose of Her Own Medicine Tonight
Three cheers for the Massachusetts conservatives who will show up at Janeane Garofalo’s act this evening! I can’t wait for the news tomorrow – especially the photos – I hope there will be a lot of people dressed as “tea-bagging rednecks!” I have heard that most of the tickets to her show were sold to these protesters – oh happy days!
Hey, Janeane Garofalo, how do you like your tea?
It’s been a few weeks since the outspoken comedian and actress (“24”) called tea party tax protesters racists, but she is still in hot water with some Bay Staters.
A group of steamed citizens led by conservative radio talk host Ken Pittman of New Bedford’s WBSM-AM plan to protest outside her gig tonight at the Somerville Theatre.
“She has exposed herself as a bigot,” Pittman said.
About 20 to 40 people are expected to show up, he said.
Garofalo sparked controversy when she criticized the protesters while on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.”
“You know, there’s nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry. . . . This is about hating a black man in the White House,” she said.
Garofalo, in town to perform in the Alternative Comedy Festival, declined the Herald’s request for an interview.
“She doesn’t really want to talk about that at all,” said Brian Joyce, director of the festival. “She is coming to Somerville to play a comedy festival, not talk politics.”
Pittman said, “I’m not going violate her act or inhibit her ability to earn a living. This is purely satirical, and anyone who is not coming with a sense of humor should not bother coming.”
Massachusetts Dems: “Let Illegal Immigrants Vote”
It’s just one brilliant idea after the next with these democrats. So illegals who shouldn’t be here in the first place should have a vote? And here I was thinking that only taxpayers should get the vote. I guess I’m way on the other side of this coin – as usual! 
Rep. Pam Richardson of Framingham wants the Massachusetts Democratic Party to advocate voting rights for illegal aliens.
You read that right. A handful of liberal Massachusetts towns already allow legal resident aliens to vote in local elections. But Richardson wants illegal immigrants canceling out your vote for school committee and town selectman.
And she wants the state Democratic Party to lead the way.
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“We have a large population of people living here who don’t have the same rights and opportunities of the rest of us,” she complained. “I’m talking about undocumented immigrants.”
There’s a reason they don’t have the same rights and it has nothing to do with discrimination it has to do with the words ILLEGAL and UNDOCUMENTED – it has to do with them not paying income taxes, etc. It has to do with the fact that many of my family friends who are honest, hard-working LEGAL immigrants cannot stand the ILLEGALS. They went through the process to apply for citizenship even though it was full of red-tape, difficult, and arduous. They went through this because they wanted nothing more than to be AMERICANS. Many of whom left communist dictatorships in Russia, Vietnam, and Korea. A personal friend of mine wrote a book on the experiences she had growing up in Vietnam during the war and how she fled on a boat to Europe. She lived in the Netherlands for several years with the ultimate goal of becoming a U.S. citizen because she wanted to be free. She came to the U.S. with cash in hand and a family and nothing else. She built herself up from nothing, saving her money, and finally establishing a business. She is now well-off after growing up and living in poverty and she became a citizen the right way. That’s how it should be and that’s why I will never agree with any of this! This is just another way to grab power by the liberals – watch the census…
The Author of the article tends to agree with me:
