If Obama won’t help California, then he should expect no help from Californians at election time. What makes me so angry is that California is a donor state. For every dollar we send to Washington we get back 71 cents. Give is back OUR OWN tax dollars, and stop sending them to war pofiteers and corrupt bankers. We’re being robbed.

I wish Hillary had won. Obama is a fraud and a tool of the corporations.

The main problem is the public of California thinking in only the short term.  They vote down things that inevitably brought them to the mess they’re in now.  I would hate if they took away certain social programs in exchange for lower taxes.  How do they think things get paid for?
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Give California back to Mexico. Maybe Mexico can do a better job.

JC is right.

The Republic of California should print it’s own money backed by the collateral of our agricultural industry + hollywood + import duties + tourist income + manufacturing.

WE have the power!!

no guts no glory!!

If Calif. printed its own money, it would not need to look towards Washington for assistance…wonder if the gov. has real guts, to get his state back on track.  No guts no glory.

Arnie gets a bad rub. He was right to try to increase teacher’s tenure.

The public turned it down.

He was right to try and limit the union’s political power.

The public turned it down.

He was right to try and create a rainy day fund.

The public turned it down.

California needs a new state constitution and it needs one badly, which means…

The public will turn it down.

It’s payback for his complicity in the Enron scam on California and the country!

Apart from the discussion whether it’s a good idea to bailout California or not, how is it that the United States government puts corporate interests above citizens’ interests?

Let citizens suffer and cut any benefits they may receive, but provide the corporate jerks oodles of corporate welfare. That seems to be the mantra of Congress and the President.

Maybe Arnold should retract his comment about Obama’s skinny legs, for a starter. Should Obama not help Calif. the Democrats will pay dearly in future elections. Even Wall St. doesn’t have as many electoral votes.

As a resident of Kollyfornya, I would like to say:

1.  Everybody wants government services but no one wants to pay for them.

2.  Kollyfornya never recovered from Proposition 13, passed 31 years sgo.

3.  Kollyfornya has been Slouching Toward Bethlehem for over 40 years.

4.  Where are you, Pat Brown?

5.  The Austrian is the latest in a long line of posturing political mannequins, Republican and Democrat, who, along with the so-called legislature, got us where we are.  We are about to become the Mississipi of the west (displacing Utah).

Federal officials are likely right to be worried… It’s not just likely but pretty much certain that a bailout of California would set off a cascade of demands from other states.
Health care crisis, energy crisis, global warming not quite a crisis but for sure one in the making… most of the “great middle class” pretty much at the point where we don’t need any more “stuff,” an economy that runs on the production of “stuff,” and a situation where there is no really sensible way to encourage businesses to produce “stuff” for which there is no demand.

Somebody, somewhere in the United States, is going to need to address the problem of raising taxes and/or reducing services.  Somebody, somewhere, is going to have to make hard choices about whether having moral fiber means taking care of our neighbors in a meaningful way, or simply hoarding what wealth they have and hoping nobody gets testy and does anything drastic on a really, REALLY big scale.

Rush and Bill and Sean seem to be doing a good job convincing people that what’s bad for them is really good for them so far. 
“You don’t WANT health insurance!”  “You don’t WANT clean air.”  “You don’t WANT fuel-efficient cars.”  “You don’t WANT competent and well-paid teachers and nurses.”  Things like that.
Maybe it will keep working; maybe not.

If we’re not going to work together to solve our problems, and apparently we’re not, then somebody is going to have to tangle.  Whatever happens might as well begin with California, and Arnold might as well be in charge as anyone.  He’s so authoritative!

Just think: maybe California can be a dry run for the U.S. in the way that Chrysler is a dry run for G.M.