Message To The Cali-forn-ia Gurus

[Jim]

On 01/12/2010 05:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 11:59 AM, Jim wrote:
>    
>> It's time you Cali-for-ia Gurus come out of the woodwork  and make it
>> happen out there.
>> I would imagine there is more Gurus in California per square inch than
>> any place in the U.S.
>> You now have your marching orders from the CIO of your state , so lets
>> make it happen. You have heard that old saying "what ever California
>> does So goes the Nation"
>>
>> Read article below and get scoop.
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10432052-16.html
>>      
> Truly spoken like a man who doesn't live here.
>
> <soap>  <!-- Turn away now...this gets political -->
> The heavily ensconced special interest groups here that run our state
> government (to the detriment of every _legal_ resident taxpayer) would
> NEVER allow any such commonsense solution.  The legislature here has
> absolutely no concept of the real world.  They only understand "spend,
> spend, SPEND!"  In their delusional Utopia, cost is no object and
> accounting flim-flams, slight-of-hand cleverness and outright denial
> that anything's wrong will hide it all.
>
> The C-Net article doesn't go into it fully, but the $20B deficit they
> quote is after the accounting tricks have been performed.  By the way,
> these machinations are precisely the kind which landed the executives
> of Global Crossing, Broadcom, and several other corporations in jail.
> In reality, it's more like a $60B deficit, and with interest will
> probably cap out at over $100B when the bill is fully paid and the
> damage is truly assessed.
>
> But then again, what happened here has already happened in Washington
> with the Senate, House and Obama.  Trust me, you DON'T want any bloody
> part of it.  Pelosi is from the People's Republic of San Francisco, for
> Christ's sake!  You want MORE of that kind of bovine excrement?
>
> There is a movement afoot to change our state flag's symbol from the
> California Golden Bear to an ostrich with its head buried in a septic
> tank (or perhaps more appropriately, up its own arse).
> </soap>
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Rick what your feeling is the feeling of the whole country.