IOU? not from you CA

[fomenter]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124692354575702881.html

CA   

[Jenne]

Yeah, signs of the times, really.  So's this:  http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2041471.html

My mom says that the jails have already begun releasing people who have 60 days or less left on their sentences, and the prisons are next.  (Jails are county, prisons are state, for anyone not in the know.)  They're not going to advertize it, she says, since it would cause an uproar of epic proportions and nothing would get accomplished.  They'll just keep saying they haven't decided on it yet, meanwhile scores of people will be released contingent on criteria that is preset by a group of lawmakers, judges and prison officials.

This is what happens when the public fora for these things breaks down and refuses to work together--the powers that be just quietly do their own thing--easier to apologize than ask for permission, I'd say.

[fomenter]

   i guess cutting the budget of police departments and laying off officers at the same time is part of the plan???

[Richter]

Honestly, whatever they do, people will bitch and complain.  If they announce it, someone will get a grassroots group together to stop it, or failing that wreck the signing politician's rep. with their constituency.

If they don't I can see lots more folks just going "Oh well", and taking it. 
This highlights where voting poorly bites people in the ass.  How many of us think about how who we voted in as Mayor, Governor, or President would handle such situations before we punch the ballot?

[Jenne]

fomie, yes, of course.  Meanwhile cutting the schoolday and also the schoolyear as well so that MORE crimes can be committed between 3pm and 6pm, with less officers to deal with it of course.

They might NOT be cutting the fire fighters as much, though, because, you know, CA tends to burn away every 3 years or so.

There's a shit-ton of spending they are cutting...all because taxes on the rich MUST NOT BE RAISED, EVAR!!!  That's Arnie's pledge and he's stickin' to it.

[Jenne]

Honestly, whatever they do, people will bitch and complain.  If they announce it, someone will get a grassroots group together to stop it, or failing that wreck the signing politician's rep. with their constituency.

If they don't I can see lots more folks just going "Oh well", and taking it. 
This highlights where voting poorly bites people in the ass.  How many of us think about how who we voted in as Mayor, Governor, or President would handle such situations before we punch the ballot?

Ironically enough, that's how The Governator got into power...we voted out his predecessor because we thought he was handling the brown-and-black-outs in the power shortages badly.

Little did we know...