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On Sat, 23 May 2009 05:30:53 -0700, dave wrote:

Telamon wrote:


Not really. The fist six extended the recent tax hikes for two more
years. The last one, the only one that passed, stated the legislature
can not vote themselves a raise if the budget was not balanced or in the
black.


I always vote "No" on these stupid propositions. They should do away
with them. That's what the legislators are for.

No that's what the people are for, The legislators are a useless bunch
of crooks. It's about time the people took this country back.

The problem with that is that the people don't necessarily know how things
work (need to be better educated in the works of government). Like there
were a couple of propositions in CA years ago. One was to roll back
insurance premiums. That one resulted in insurance companies denying most
claims and then using a loophole in the law to raise the rates enormously on
anyone that DID get a claim paid.

Another one rolled back property taxes. It resulted in the closing of fire
departments, police stations and schools. People haven't a clue of the
ramifications of their actions. I totally agree that things need to change,
there's way too much fat (not pork) in government, too many middle
management types, too many committees, too much waste. If they got rid of
all the useless garbage in government, all the wasteful spending (the
military pays $3000 for a hand held computer/scanner that a civilian could
get for less than 1/4 of that!), then there would be no need to hack away at
Medicare, Social Security/SSI and other entitlement programs, and certainly
no need to mess with essential services.