Dear California:

[crimsonblue]

it looks like you're royally and totally fucked. That really sucks. We hope things get better.

Love,

the rest of the Country

[Bennyboy]

1. Rainbows end down that Highway......

Don't worry about me no...
My Time comin'
any day
don't worry about me now....

Estimated Prophet...Grateful Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOyHuRzzq0

[LaraMN]

2. Can't they just sell a couple houses and use the proceeds to bail out the state?

Oh yeah, housing crisis...

[Tikki]

3. I am glad to hear that Kansas....

has resolved their budget crisis? :shrug:


Tikki

[crimsonblue]

7. It would be if the GOP controlling the state legislature

could realize that the state is going to receive ~$1.7 billion from the stim package, which will fill all the budgetary holes we have right now.

[amitten]

33. That's right.

You have a little friend in Kansas.

[Kajsa]

4. Want some of our Repub state senators?

You know, the 'death before taxes' crowd?

You can have 'em- all of them!!

:(

Thanks for the good wishes,though.
:)

I have no friggin clue where this will end.
One of my close friends works for the state.

:( :(

[KitchenWitch]

8. I think we should recall the whole lot of them.

fucking scoundrels

[Kajsa]

10. Hi Kitchy!

Absolutely!

Get rid of them all!!

:grr:

[texanwitch]

5. I don't know how well Texas is doing.

We had Bush and Governor Goodhair.

Our last good governor was Anne Richards.

[no name no slogan]

24. OUR last good governor was a pro wrestler

Do you have any idea how much pain it causes me to say that? :hurts:

[Pierre.Suave]

27. LOL

It gives me endless amusement...

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

30. Our Governor Goodhair was a model.

That is why he is called Governor Goodhair.

[Fleshdancer]

6. I had a morbid thought earlier

I hope mother nature is kind to California during these hard times. The last thing they need is a big earthquake or more fires. :(

[LeftyMom]

9. We're in a drought.

It's raining now but unless we get tons of snow in the Sierra over the next month or so, we're kind of fucked. Actually, we're kind of fucked either way- relatively late, warm rain will mean lots of undergrowth and a really nasty fire season this summer/fall.

[JVS]

11. Maybe they should have a benefit concert.

[DS1]

12. Make police chases Pay-Per-View

Problem solved.

[TK421]

13. O.J is is too old...you think any old thug will do with that?

great idea!! It would bring capital into the city, but these people have to be high profile!

[Shakespeare]

14. You're obviously NOT from LA.

Wall-to-wall coverage of EVERY police chase here, celebrities or not. Always.

It's one of the things I love about this place. :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

15. you're lucky, you have way more of them in Socal then we have here but we do get the feeds.

i appreciate it when it happens at lunchtime that way i can watch, so thanks high and low speed car chase perps for making it happen at a convenient time for me!

[Shakespeare]

17. HAHA--I find them completely irresistable.

I'll sit mesmerized in front of the TV as long as they air the chase. When I moved back down here from NorCal a couple of years ago, I was SO HAPPY when I got to watch my first car chase after being gone for awhile. :7

[TK421]

16. No..I'm not from LA....seems like a pull-over for a speeding ticket

makes the headline news out there

[Shakespeare]

18. Only if they make a run for it.

Then it's all live coverage, on all local channels. AWESOME.

[KitchenWitch]

20. That would work!

:D

[Pierre.Suave]

28. BWAHAHAHAHA

Awesome Idea.

:rofl:

[Kajsa]

19. Californians, PLEASE call Abel Maldonado's office( link included)!

This, from Pinto's thread in our CA Forum,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=141&topic_id=33515&mesg_id=33515

Thanks so much.

:)

[Pushed To The Left]

21. Called Moldonado's office this morning, Cox's this afternoon

I told the people who answered for both of them that right wing talk radio doesn't run California..the people run California! The person who answered for Cox's office was very friendly. Right wing radio is pretty upset because it looks like Moldonado is getting close to voting for the budget.

[Kajsa]

34. Thanks,PTTL.

The CA State Senate is now on "lockdown".
The Dems brought their sleeping bags and
toothbrushes. The Repubs are pissed!

NO ONE leaves until they agree on a budget.

Steinberg should have done this three months
ago.

Every call to our legislature helps!

Thanks so much.

:)

[Zomby Woof]

22. Even when it sucks here

We're still in California at day's end.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sunset_with_coconut_palm_tree,_Fiji.jpg/450px-Sunset_with_coconut_palm_tree,_Fiji.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zNll-0z0tjM/SCLqE-dRruI/AAAAAAAAAFk/jwnQhnfel-o/S760/Point+Loma.jpg

http://nature.wallpaperme.com/1709-2/Golden+Gate+Bridge_+Marin+Headlands_+San+Francisco_+California.jpg

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. In return for your gracious blow-off

henceforth all films shall feature either Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves. Or both. In every roll.

We thank you for your support.

(Small donations from the rest of the country shall end this sad state of affairs; give often, give deeply.)

[crimsonblue]

25. Jesus Christ, kill me now if this is what the future holds..

I don't think I've watched a Tom Cruise flick since I found out 5 years ago that he is a crazy Scientology cultist.

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. It's not a threat. We're frightened too.

Please help California. It's for the good of the country, nay, the world.

[crimsonblue]

29. Sorry, but things are bad for me too.

I can't afford to buy food. My cat eats better than I do. :(

[mike_c]

31. nah, we're OK....

In the first place, we have mason jars of the most excellent indoor bud imaginable in the freezer. And if I end up sleeping in my car, hell, it's CALIFORNIA. It doesn't get any better than this.

I can honestly say, no matter how much being broke and homeless sucks-- yes, I've been there-- I'd rather die in most of California than live in many of the other places I've lived in the U.S.

We'll manage. We've got California.

[Lindsey]

32. I also would rather live here than any place else on the planet

but man, it's already expensive enough' and now they're talking about adding .12 per gallon of gas, laying off thousands of state employees, and we're going to be getting I.O.U.'s for income tax checks (plus a lot of other crap)! I still don't understand how we got into this mess....

[SidneyCarton]

35. We will survive.

Despite our reputation for being soft slackers, Californians are survivors. It comes from living on faultlines and dealing with traffic the likes of which no one outside of New York can really appriciate. Things are going to be really rough for a while here, and many things which we have taken for granted in the Golden State are likely to pass away, some for good. But we will pull through, we did in the early 90's when the combination of quakes, floods, fires, mudslides and riots had many writing the epitaph for Los Angeles. San Francisco has been battered and pummelled by Earthquakes, one of which wiped much of the city off the face of the earth (1906) they rebuilt, and while I have never personally been to the "City by the Bay" it is hailed by both its residents and visitors as the jewel of our state.

We have seen ruin before in this state, looked it in the eye, and stared it down. We will do it again and be the better for it.

And maybe, just maybe, we will learn something from this mess and the next time we vote on ballot measures, they will include one that removes the supermajority requirement to pass a budget in the Legislature, instead of removing marriage rights.