California, as is often the case, is leading the way. This time in showing what it is that Republicans want to do to the entire country.
California is in the eighth month of its fiscal year and still does not have a budget. Every attempt to pass a budget has been blocked by the Republican minority in the legislature or vetoed by the Republican governor. The effect of this radical Republican agenda has been the closure of public schools and the worst credit rating of any state in the union. The state has stopped paying it bills. It is laying off thousands of workers. Thinking about a tax refund? Forget it, the state is sending out IOUs instead.
This is a Republican caused crisis. It isn't quite destruction of its own sake, but close. Republicans are refusing any compromise and are holding the entire state hostage. The problem is that the Republicans don't really have any demands (Try your own search, you'll come up empty too. Like this says anything.). Their goal is the total collapse of government services in the state on the theory that they can only benefit for the resulting chaos.
My warning is that the past will be prologue. What the Republicans are doing in California in 2009 they will do to the entire United States government in 2010. Just wait for it.
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Hmmm. Pessimism. But, you could be right. Or, it may be that the people who are viewed by many as right-wing-shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool wackos actually believe what they are saying.
If the "game" is won by whoever shouts loudest, the effect could be the same.
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