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annm4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 01:53 PM
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Would private company BAH take over CA ? If CA goes broke ?
When CA was going through the man-made energy crisis, I really felt Cheney and who ever he was really working for really wanted CA government to collapse and they would take over CA some way and privatize it so they could make more money. (what else made sense with what they are doing ?) With the shenanigans happening now in CA with mostly Republican State reps and Gov Arnold who was also tied in with Enron mess it seems like it might happen. But knowing it really seemed too far fetched of a thought of who would provide the services of the Government. Well last week I did a loan for a person who works for this company. BAH (Booz, Allen, Hamilton) and if you go through their different "markets" it would make sense,,it COULD happen. BAH is just one company that is already doing Government work.. and there are others.

http://www.boozallen.com/consulting

it is where some of the top government officials go to work http://www.boozallen.com/news/41362682



Below is what Sydney already posted. It is about how the fire fighters might be so broke that CA just might burn down.. (just one part of Government)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=141x33532


The recent overthrow of the minority leader in the California State Senate proves what many Californians have known for a very long time, the state GOP, rendered mostly irrelevant through their own extremism, have decided to fold their arms, pout and watch the state go down in flames. The bankruptcy of the State of California, the sixth largest economy on earth, is the ultimate monument to the policies of Grover Norquist and his ilk. As the right has been unable to shrink California's state government until it was "small enough to drown in a bathtub" they have decided to use the last tool available to them (the super-majority requirement to pass a budget through the Legislature) in order to forcibly strangle the state.

This is indicative of the whole neocon philosophy of government, that the old system has to be smashed in order for a new system to be born from the chaos. What the ideologues of the right have yet failed to learn, is that the only thing born of chaos, is more chaos. This will become readily apparent later this year, when the winter rainstorms give way to the dry heat of summer, and the California Chaparral goes through its yearly process of self-immolation. Without adequate funding, how will the already over-stretched Cal Fire organization manage to hold back this year's walls of flame?

The irony is, that many of the regions which will face the worst burns, such as San Diego County, Orange County and the High Desert, have been Republican strongholds for years. Effectively, the representatives for these regions have voted for the annihilation of their constituents. Nevertheless, there will be plenty of Californians who will lose their homes this summer who have urgently pled for a budget, any budget to pass. Yet nature, who respects neither borders nor jurisdictions, will not pay attention to voting records or party affiliation either, left and right alike will be consumed in the coming conflagration.

Will we remember the disastrous effects of this neglect and obstructionism come 2010? I certainly hope so. Assuming there is any state left to reclaim by then, one of the primary goals for the midterm ballot should be a referendum ensuring that this last measure of Republican obstructionism in budgetary matters is discarded on the ash-heap of history. The voters of the Golden State should look to pass a measure that overturns Proposition 13's longstanding requirement of a super-majority to pass the state budget. If all that is required to pass a budget in California is a simple majority, the state GOP will be forced to either move into the California mainstream, or fade into extremist oblivion.
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