WE’VE GOT EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL
February 25, 2010 Uncategorized 1 Comment
Well folks, don’t worry about California after all. Everything is under control here, so much so that the California Legislature has moved on from creating jobs and balancing the budget to passing meaningless resolutions naming next week “Cuss Free Week.” Don’t we have bigger things to worry about?
While you’re reading this, two more jobs will be lost. That’s right, Californians are losing their jobs at a rate of approximately one person per minute, or 40,000 lost per month. Businesses have been fleeing California like we’re about to drop in to the Pacific Ocean, so much so that California lawmakers felt the need to spend more California tax dollars traveling to neighboring states to ask former California corporations why they relocated. At the very least, I’d hope our Senators and Assemblymen would be figuring out how to spend the billions of dollars we’ve been given by the Federal government. But no, we’d rather pass meaningless resolutions telling people how to conduct themselves because, get this, the “Cuss Free Week” Facebook group has gained so many members that our legislature now considers it to be of great public concern.
Am I wrong here? Even if passing this resolution did not interfere with higher priorities, one can’t help but get the impression that this is the type of legislative procrastination (if not outright counter-productivity) that landed California in this mess to begin with.
I hope the other 49 states are ready because the Democratically-led U.S. Congress is falling victim to many of the same mistakes. Nothing ever seems to get done. Congress’ spending has been out of control for years but it seems the only thing they pass are more spending bills. Well, they do that and and grill Mark McGwire on steroids, which should have been completely irrelevant as far as Congress was concerned. Enter “Cuss Free Week.”
If the rest of the Union wants a lesson in what not to do, allowing your legislative body to run amuck by telling people what they should and should not say, spying on their citizens with speed-sensor cameras, allowing law enforcement to unconstitutionally detain DUI suspects without a hearing for up to four days during the holidays, choking off our water supply so that environmentalists can feel better about saving a 2 inch fish that contributes nothing to our ecosystem, and telling people they can’t even smoke in their own home are pretty good examples. So instead of following the Democrats’ stampede off a cliff, why don’t we try getting future generations out of the debt we’re creating? We can either do that, or take the next logical step and let Congress pass a bill compelling us to buy healthcare.
See where I’m going with this? STOP letting Democrats control public policy. November can’t come soon enough.
COPYRIGHT 2010 JOHN M. ROGITZ