Stockton Today - California Tomorrow? (home, utilities, income)

[Vascodagama]

Originally Posted by Think4Yourself

BYE-BYE. Hopefully the door didn't hit you on the way out. Oh, and do you mind changing your location field so that it no longer reads "California"? Just trying to keep things honest here, thanks.

Yes, I mind you asking for me to change my location. I'm born and raised in California and only not lived here in my 55 years when I served my country. I will change my location when I'm good and ready and I don't need some punk telling me chit. Did you serve your country? Have you worked for 40 years straight without taking a handout, no unemployment, no welfare? I worked hard all my life for my family and my country. I earned my retirement and its paid for by me. What have you done?

[TrueTimbers]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

TrueTimbers for president!

Thanks Gentoo.... I enjoy your point of view too.... These folks simply do not get the scale of global economics.. Sheep being milked until dry then lead to slaughter..

[BlackShoe]

Originally Posted by TrueTimbers

Sheep being milked until dry then lead to slaughter..

Pretty good one line description of liberals. The thing is, leftists very much enjoy being milked and put up no struggle against the executioner.

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by BlackShoe

Pretty good one line description of liberals. The thing is, leftists very much enjoy being milked and put up no struggle against the executioner.

Which is why the Conservative Administration that preceded Obama increased the size of the Federal government more than any liberal administration in history?

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by Don9

Yes, I mind you asking for me to change my location. I'm born and raised in California and only not lived here in my 55 years when I served my country. I will change my location when I'm good and ready and I don't need some punk telling me chit. Did you serve your country? Have you worked for 40 years straight without taking a handout, no unemployment, no welfare? I worked hard all my life for my family and my country. I earned my retirement and its paid for by me. What have you done?

and you will never accept Social Security checks and never sign up for Medicare or VA benefits? Good deal, I like a man with the courage of his convictions, now stay off the socialist streets and highways, don't call the socialist Fire Services or Police, and you got it nailed.

[SDBorn]

Originally Posted by marigolds6

Stockton is broke because of a billion dollars in grants and tax credits.
Jefferson City went broke because of $3B in capital improvements.

But feel free to keep blaming government workers salaries and benefits....

A billion dollars in grants and tax credits? Can you provide a link as I was under the impression grants do not have to be paid back, that grants were tax payer funded money the government grants or gives out. I would like to read more about your statement. Thanks much.

[SDBorn]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

Love how some are doing their usual to "blame the liberal" for this. How short our memories are. Do we not remember the Orange County bankruptcy? The largest municipal bankruptcy in US history?

[QUOTE and has consistently sent Republican representatives to the state and federal legislatures

And more recently

So before those of you predictably "blame the left" for any and all issues such as this, I will call a preemptive BS![/quote]


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"But one did not have to look far to find quirks in the button-down demeanor of the only elected Democrat in Orange County government."

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[SDBorn]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

There have been approximately 500 municipal bankruptcies since 1930 when the Chapter 9 law went into effect.

In recent years those having gone bankrupt include:
Jefferson County, AL
Westfall, PA
Moffett, OK
Pritchard, AL
Central Falls, RI
Harrisburg, PA has filed and been discontinued and refiled and denied over the past year.

I was not aware that "stupid" California voters and "stupid" California lawmakers were responsible for those districts and towns. Learn something new everyday.

Who are you quoting as saying "stupid" California voters and "stupid" California lawmakers? I missed it.

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by SDBorn

Who are you quoting as saying "stupid" California voters and "stupid" California lawmakers? I missed it.

Certain posters on this forum, including several participating in this thread, have made a "literary career" out of bashing Californians' collective "stupidities" as if Californians act genetically different in their decision-making from other homo sapiens given generally similar circumstances. This forum is rife with whining and complaining and finger-pointing and dire predicting. But, naturally, it's always the 'other guys'' who are acting stupidly, not the poster.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

Those bailouts were not used to create jobs are really weren't meant to. They were simply to keep the largest corporations from tanking. Too big to fail I believe was the catch phrase.

Or was it too big not to be under the Government's control?