I am FURIOUS over the latest governator move in my state as well.
He allowed Enron to make off with NINE billion dollars and
now we are sinking under the waves with the elderly and
disabled the first to drown.
FUCK the motherfuckers who did this to us.
http://www.dailykos.net/archives/004435.html"Based on 34 faxed pages of Enron memos, investigative journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast said in a story posted at his site yesterday that Arnold Schwarzenegger was part of a small group that met secretly with Enron CEO and George Bush friend Ken Lay in May 2001. The purpose: to wreck a plan by Gray Davis and Cruz Bustamante to recover $9 billion ripped off by Enron and others in California’s 2000-2001 energy crisis."
Joanne, one of DU's finest contributors to the Economic Forum posted an excellent
thread regarding the wreckage in California here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x54233"California controller to suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants - Los Angeles Times
Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action by the governor and lawmakers to close the state’s nearly $42-billion budget deficit. More than half of those payments are tax refunds….
“It pains me to pull this trigger,” Chiang said at a news conference in his office. “But it is an action that is critically necessary.”
The payments to be frozen include nearly $2 billion in tax refunds; $300 million in cash grants for needy families and the elderly, blind and disabled; and $13 million in grants for college students…
But California is projected to be $346 million short of the funds it needs to pay all its bills in February. By March, the state would be so far in the red that even continuing to suspend payments would not cover the shortfall. California would be insolvent, making the issuance of IOUs likely."
I think it is surprising that more DUers don't read that forum.
It is one of our best.
And the people in this state should demand the removal of "Ahr-nold" from public office,
along with any others who helped break the bank in California.
BHN