Sacramento Republicans do not want to take responsibility for their mess

Here is a post by North County Times Blogger, Bluebird, that lays out how the Sacramento Republicans caused the state financial crises that has led to massive school cut backs.

BlueBird writes on June 20, 2009 at 8:32AM PST

Jim Jones’ letter is just more of that conservative Kool Aid. As usual, the Republicans do not want to take responsibility for the mess they have created. As I have repeatedly noted, Republicans have held the governorship for 20 of the last 26 years, with all the powers of administrative appointments and the veto that go with it. Additionally, for at least 30 years they have had enough votes to prevent the Democrats from getting the 2/3 vote necessary for passing fiscal reforms to save our state, and have obstructed the Democrats legislatively and administratively.

Case in point: the Democrats are trying to pass a simple reform that would generate billions in revenue. Californian is the ONLY one of 22 oil-producing states that does not have ANY tax on drilling! Democrats have proposed a tax rate that, if adopted, would be the LOWEST tax rate of any oil-producing state. Of course, Republican obstructionists are standing in the way, dancing to the strings being pulled by their Big Oil puppeteers.

In contrast, the Republican governor of Alaska (hmmm, trying to think of the name....), last year raised her state’s oil tax. And to top it off, these freeloaders want MORE drilling when they won’t even pay the freight on the free ride they are currently ripping us off for! Just more feeding at the public trough of corporate welfare and calling it “private enterprise.” Private enterprise, my tailfeathers!

And of course, the Jim Jones Kool Aid is eagerly swallowed by gullible letter-writer John Sable whose solution is NOT to stop the corporate welfare gravy train, but to expand it by privatizing just about everything! Sorry, but the middlemen profiteering off public health and safety is the problem not the solution. In the meantime, I don’t see Sable going for the obvious solution, to stop the free handouts to the Big Oil Bullies.

So please, I do not want to hear any scolding from REPUBLICAN oil whores who not only refuse one of the most basic, universal sources of taxation, but want to further rape our offshore coastal areas while the Big Oil Bullies return NOTHING of value to our state except more gouging.