2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Liberal, not Conservative policies turned CA's $42 BILLION dollar deficit into $850 million surplus [View all]calimary
(81,265 posts)I'm proud of my state. We do indeed still have numerous problems. But some of them have actually been mitigated by the policies in place now. The ken lay heist was utterly CRIMINAL. And nobody did anything about it. Under republi-CON "leadership," NOTHING was done. It was allowed. It was schemed up and implemented so only a select lucky privileged few would benefit and the rest of us could go jump in the lake. DEMOCRATIC and LIBERAL leadership tends to reject that approach, because DEMOCRATIC and LIBERAL leadership tends to favor the many over that lucky privileged few (who, to my mind, don't need any government corner-cutting and under-the-table scheming to further line their already-lavishly-padded pockets). If you're rich, you don't need government so much to protect you because your wealth enables you to take care of, and look after, yourself and your own interests VERY nicely already, thank you very much. It's everybody else who needs the protection. If you're already rich, you don't need the help, because you can afford to help yourself. So seems to me that government shouldn't concern itself as much with you and your needs. If you're rich, especially the super-rich, seems to me you're plenty capable of doing that, yourself.
The GOP has that whole concept upside-down, inside-out, and bass-ackwards.