Blitz Week Observations
Here's my considerably revised letter to the editor, still trying to get published [update 10/29/10 -- it was published today in the local Daily Breeze]:
"If ever there were a time to vote for change, it is now, for our formerly great state – before we can no longer dig ourselves out. Surely California can do much better than Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer, with their long, failed political careers and policies that have only exacerbated California’s economic crisis. The well-worn quote bears repeating until heard: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -- Albert Einstein. Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina provide exactly what the doctor ordered to turn around the exodus of businesses -- our tax base -- and citizens, and restore fiscal sanity.
What gall, to accuse Fiorina and Whitman of making difficult business decisions to save their businesses in the very climate Boxer and Brown have fostered! Those taxes, extremist policies & regulations have driven business and jobs out of California and the U.S. in droves – effectively outsourcing them. Businesses that must make a profit to stay afloat and pay employees can’t just mindlessly legislate huge spending bills and taxes such as Boxer & Brown have supported. Nor the many non-revenue-generating government jobs and entitlements that will bankrupt us like Greece.
Given California’s 12.4% unemployment (30% in some counties), $19 billion deficit, overdue budgets with more furloughs & IOU’s, some of the country’s highest state income and property taxes, poorest-performing schools and crumbling infrastructure, we must change course. The cash cow is nearly milked dry. This state & country need to regain some of the business sense they’ve driven away, before our spending & debt (state and national) become unsustainable by a shrinking economy, and even more draconian cuts become necessary. Fiorina and Whitman bring that needed sense, and respectability. No more business as usual, and enough of never-ending terms of office!
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The California TV & radio campaign ads for the governor's & Senate seats are setting new records, and are nearly the only ads running, nearly nonstop.
Obama is out on the stump again, "firing them up," reviving fainting fans with water bottles, and trying to reduce the anticipated bloodbath. "I need you to come out and vote in droves." Many of his minions no doubt were puzzled at what a "drove" is. Perhaps a used car, which many without jobs can no longer afford?
Democrat desperation is getting laughable, with their claim the US Chamber of Commerce MAY be using foreign funds for campaign ads. Besides them having no evidence, there's also little logic to foreign influence favoring conservatism. Unlike the Chinese donations Dems were getting, which would lean left more to their liking. And the public workers unions are far outspending the US Chamber or any other conservative source. "Big Business" spending has on average been very evenly split between Democrat & Republican. As Prager says, they may be business geniuses, but are politically naive.
And more of the same claims that the discontent is irrational fear, and misdirected. And that such were the conditions when the Nazis came to power. Again, demonizing any who oppose them.
Humble Harry Reid took credit for saving the world from a global depression -- I think he'll have to fight Obama for that credit, claiming things would have been much worse.
PC has run amuk and exposed itself at NPR, with the firing of Juan Williams. I agree it is time to cut public funding of the left-biased NPR.
"If ever there were a time to vote for change, it is now, for our formerly great state – before we can no longer dig ourselves out. Surely California can do much better than Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer, with their long, failed political careers and policies that have only exacerbated California’s economic crisis. The well-worn quote bears repeating until heard: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -- Albert Einstein. Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina provide exactly what the doctor ordered to turn around the exodus of businesses -- our tax base -- and citizens, and restore fiscal sanity.
What gall, to accuse Fiorina and Whitman of making difficult business decisions to save their businesses in the very climate Boxer and Brown have fostered! Those taxes, extremist policies & regulations have driven business and jobs out of California and the U.S. in droves – effectively outsourcing them. Businesses that must make a profit to stay afloat and pay employees can’t just mindlessly legislate huge spending bills and taxes such as Boxer & Brown have supported. Nor the many non-revenue-generating government jobs and entitlements that will bankrupt us like Greece.
Given California’s 12.4% unemployment (30% in some counties), $19 billion deficit, overdue budgets with more furloughs & IOU’s, some of the country’s highest state income and property taxes, poorest-performing schools and crumbling infrastructure, we must change course. The cash cow is nearly milked dry. This state & country need to regain some of the business sense they’ve driven away, before our spending & debt (state and national) become unsustainable by a shrinking economy, and even more draconian cuts become necessary. Fiorina and Whitman bring that needed sense, and respectability. No more business as usual, and enough of never-ending terms of office!
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The California TV & radio campaign ads for the governor's & Senate seats are setting new records, and are nearly the only ads running, nearly nonstop.
Obama is out on the stump again, "firing them up," reviving fainting fans with water bottles, and trying to reduce the anticipated bloodbath. "I need you to come out and vote in droves." Many of his minions no doubt were puzzled at what a "drove" is. Perhaps a used car, which many without jobs can no longer afford?
Democrat desperation is getting laughable, with their claim the US Chamber of Commerce MAY be using foreign funds for campaign ads. Besides them having no evidence, there's also little logic to foreign influence favoring conservatism. Unlike the Chinese donations Dems were getting, which would lean left more to their liking. And the public workers unions are far outspending the US Chamber or any other conservative source. "Big Business" spending has on average been very evenly split between Democrat & Republican. As Prager says, they may be business geniuses, but are politically naive.
And more of the same claims that the discontent is irrational fear, and misdirected. And that such were the conditions when the Nazis came to power. Again, demonizing any who oppose them.
Humble Harry Reid took credit for saving the world from a global depression -- I think he'll have to fight Obama for that credit, claiming things would have been much worse.
PC has run amuk and exposed itself at NPR, with the firing of Juan Williams. I agree it is time to cut public funding of the left-biased NPR.
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