North County Weighs in on the DOOMSDAY budget

The anti-union, anti-middle class North County Times continues to support the agenda of the billionaire bullies who despise the middle class and poor and government services that help the middle class and poor.

The NCTimes have a brief editorial about the upcoming DOOMSDAY budget that Sacramento Republicans are forcing on the people of the state without allowing us to vote whether we want it or not. But do the they condemn the Sacramento Republicans? Do they urge them to give us a chance to vote? No and No. All they do is condemn, Governor Brown.

Under the Brown POSSIBLE budget IF our existing taxes are extended, there are still 12 billion dollars worth of cuts. Not enough for the North County Times apparently. Sad, to think that it is the last 'news' paper in our North County. How I miss the real newspapers we used to have--the Times Advocate and the Vista Press!

As you may recall the DOOMSDAY BUDGET goes into place unless, the people of the state can vote to extend their existing taxes for five more years--NOT FOREVER--just five more years. The Sacramento Republicans say, "No you can't vote. We want a DOOMSDAY BUDGET. You voters were stupid enough to pass Prop 26 last November. That gave us the power to impose a DOOMSDAY BUDGET on you. So nanny nanny, we win, you lose ha ha."

Read the North County Times editorial at the URL listed below or better read the EXCELLENT editorial by Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times, that URL is found at the end of this post.

http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_76ea605a-f5f5-5a84-9abc-e66a8761c948.html

Even the LATimes, run by the right wing Chicago Tribune cons, seems to understand the petty cruelty and meanness of the Sacramento Republicans who are demanding a DOOMSDAY all cuts budget. Thanks to Prop 26 passed last November, this tiny cruel, remnant of a once mighty political party, now have the power to cut all California public schools academic year by up to five weeks in 2011-2012, next year.

All the people of the state are asking is a chance to decide whether we want to EXTEND not raise taxes in order to have a full length school year.

No one is asking to impose a new tax. All we want is the right to vote on EXTENDING EXISTING taxes or not. Then we the people decide the fate of the schools, not Sacramento Republicans.

The tone deaf Sacramento Republicans are sitting around in their caucus chuckling like satisfied hens by their power to lay the rotten egg of a greatly shortened academic school year. All because they do not want to let us vote. If we vote we might not chose to shorten the year but to just extend our taxes instead. Why is that so bad?

Here is what Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times said in his column today:

"There are no easy answers or pretty outcomes. As we all know, students included, everyone has to make sacrifices."

"But during tough times, even GOP hero Ronald Reagan and rock-solid conservative Gov. Pete Wilson temporarily raised taxes along with making tough cuts. Today, California's Republican legislators have so far refused to support Gov. Brown's plan to let voters decide whether they want to go that same route: to balance the budget half with cuts and half by temporarily extending tax increases."

"Nor have the Republicans explained how they'd whack $26 billion without putting more teachers out of work and destroying schools in their own districts. And where, by the way, are the parents in those districts? Are they going to watch in silence as their kids get hammered?"

At Hamilton, booster club president Chris Kenemuth told me she's a Republican who doesn't mind paying taxes to save great programs. She's been trying to contact Republican legislators to let them know how she feels, but they're not responding."

"Of course not. What can they say that doesn't shame them further? And how would they explain who wins when you fire teachers and demoralize students; when you take something that works and destroy it?"

Read the rest of his excellent column here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-la-0316-lopez-savinghamilton-20110315,0,4197792.column

If you want to try to get our local Sacramento Republicans off their mean spirited duffs, try calling them:

OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084

California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455