Abstract: This was written about this time a year ago[1] and seems to read is if it is current. The slale liberalism that has plagued the Golden State has not abated and the very same fiscal problems still burn with passion. I have decided to repost this with updates and some editing are those are written in green for emphasis. It is asatonishing that such mental and governmental stagnation still persists in the West.
There has been much imbecilic blathering and blue sky gazing since our ancients attempted to organize various societies into some form of governable mass. Most of the attempts [and even histories of the attempts] are worth not so much as their weight in dry cat litter given even a brief reflection on how things turned out in many societies. The historians are not reliable, we find after some analyses and comparison of parallel accounts of the same incidents, as the temptation to redact the original records and to insert excuses and plain lies are irresistible. There are so many theories that the path forward to what some think might be a just and equitable society is merely an overgrown jungle festooned with toxic notions and far-away pipe dreams lurking near every tree. The quest for firm solutions to such problems is like copulating with coprolites; there is no possible issue so to speak—unless you are a Californian.
The Greeks were marginally successful, arguably in a limited sense, until they lost hegemony of their security awareness and became slaves or all sorts and flavors to an interesting array of masters. The Romans did a bit better for a thousand years although they were practicing unvarying warfare with the known world and many times with themselves. We can wonder how societies progressed from cave dwellers to high priests and note, with some cloudy visualization, that most social systems were failures if you care to inspect the outcomes and compare them with modern notions of societies. In theory, we might want to put up a rigid set of metrics to measure and evaluate various governments based on human rights, murder rates, caloric intake, war, opera and other key parameters and bring into line governments from the ancient Egyptians to the present in some proper order. When we attempt this we tend, not surprisingly, to notice that nasty leaders like Attila, Hitler and Genghis Khan have had their counterparts all along the historical trail. It is difficult to ignore the similarities among Hitler, Stalin, Robespierre, James Jones, Pol Pot, The Ayotollah Khomeini and Robert Mugabe when you start to count bodies and look at the supply of food and tabulate who sleeps where. The salient fact that these unsavory creatures are randomly spaced along the historical timeline from the earliest known periods of recorded history, or from legends, which is probably more accurate in some cases, thus this observation nullifies the perception that we, as a society, learn from our mistakes and misdeeds and make continuous improvement in our states. Actually, the data point to the reciprocal conclusion: we have learned nothing from the past. Repeating the past is good politics. Worse, we probably know less about the present[2] than the redacted past[3] and essentially nothing about the short-term future. [4] The ignoranti have a cornucopia of alternatives thus broad license to experiment.
Thus, we find a compelling reason to adjust or redact certain obtuse portions of history for social reasons and can safely ignore complaints about accuracy if the outcomes are potentially rosy or aligned with leftist wishes. Observers of our society like the Fabian maverick George Orwell have fairly well characterized the ultimate methods of governments with the following:
"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past".—Slogan from 1984 by George Orwell.
There is much to be said about the political efficacy of this slogan. It contains all the necessary elements to fix up the present, future and past and roll then into one tight and juicy egg role for all to enjoy. Karl Marx had a grand opportunity to meld the romantic elements of J. J. Rousseau with some vigilantly selected tidbits of history, glossed over, necessarily, by forcing a strict theory upon the helpless little accounts, and thus by manufacturing a grand plan to eliminate not only inequities in our production of goods and services but government altogether. You can have a nice administration that way if you merely use lies and firing squads to glue together some of the more flaccid elements of a given society.
Winston Churchill summed up the results of his opposing line of thinking some three years after the October Revolution:
"....But my hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics, or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which they practise in every land into which they have broken, and my which alone their criminal regime can be maintained...."— Text of Winston Churchill's July 8th, 1920, British House of Commons, Amritsar Massacre Speech By Winston Churchill given July 8th, 1920[5] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
Of course, he had a bad attitude. This inspection sweeps a lot of mystery, fluff and hokum away from the totalitarian chimera and unveils in bright lights the sordid prevarication that Marxism was making some contribution to society at that early date and, recall for a moment, that the acolytes of Bolshevism persisted until 1989 in the
This, then, leaves us with a fine theory, although unworkable as it is in the primitive sate, to move forward and convince or intimidate the masses with the indomitable notion that capitalism is at the very root of all social problems. The obvious conclusion [and also the posted premise before any tedious research], thusly, is that we must eliminate or suppress capitalism and that that commission, alone, will offer society the kind of relief from capitalist oppression and that we need to restructure government.
Everything is running smoothly in
This was all achieved by being generous and progressive with hiring state employees of the strictest union bent, of running the tax spigot at full throttle whenever possible and of showing benefits unseen in the world to date upon their loyal partners in government. Gladness is everywhere and the degree of happiness spreads arithmetically with each and every greedy capitalist who flees the state in search of a less hostile environment to do traditional business at tax levels that permit small profits. Profits are evil and CEOs are lazy and stupid.
Everything wonderful has happened that could happen except that some Republican has signaled that the spending is too high and taxes cannot be raised high enough to pay for the current government. He was actually elected after a recall of a Democrat. There is a major error here. There is the tacky right-wing problem of debt. This unnecessary distress that has interrupted this melodrama of late is caused by the ‘rich’ avariciously avoiding taxes coupled with the constitutional inability of the state to tax them to such an extent that we can all enjoy prosperity and sing songs of joy at every special increment in the tax load.
[1] The state can receive well-deserved alms from the federal government or elsewhere while the tax battle continues to whittle down capitalists, private property disputes and tax levels or…
[2] The state can confiscate wealth in any and every form and monetize those assets to pay for the current social programs and cover the 19 bln deficit[8]
“"Their plan is predicated on a giant tax increase," Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear told reporters in a briefing in the state capital of Sacramento. "Tax increases are DOA. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
Assembly Speaker John Perez said lawmakers from both parties would be able to support the plan he crafted with Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.
"It reflects the core values of Californians and makes decisions that will help, rather than hurt, our economy," Perez said. "It restores cuts the Governor's budget made to education, closes costly loopholes and doesn't impose broad-based taxes on Californians."
Steinberg said the plan includes $8 billion in budget cuts but rejects Schwarzenegger's "gratuitous cuts that would devastate our economy, our people, and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs."--- California (Reuters) - The Democratic leaders of California's legislature unveiled on Tuesday a joint state budget plan, which a spokesman for Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had declared dead on arrival ahead of its release.
There is so much folly here it is difficult to proceed without anger. In a down economy like California’s self-inflicted wreckage massive tax increases, especially on businees, will only drive down the tax revenues as people flee the state.
The bleeding begins:
“State Controller John Chiang has released a list of the more than $2.19 billion in bills he says the state cannot pay in August without a budget in place.
Chiang posted the full list for August on the controller's website. It includes $284 million to community colleges, $130 million in payment due to K-12 schools and nearly $450 million from businesses that have contracts with the state.”[9]-- Controller: $2.19 billion in California bills may go unpaid without budget
By Shane Goldmacher in Sacramento August 3, 2010 | 12:34 pm
Could this be more hopeless??
The amusing part here is to think that this tax barrage would be acceptable to the Repubilcans who hold the 1/3 votes or so in opposition and that there is no hint of cost cutting and firing usless employees in this bill.
“From a management perspective, giving 200,000 workers the equivalent of a 14 percent pay cut will stave off the day when the state's cash reserves are gone and its lack of a budget forces the issuance of IOUs to service providers and vendors.”[10]-- Analysis: Recent California newspaper editorials By The Associated Press
[3] They can use the Cambodian Method of Social Cleansing to eliminate those excesses that clog the system with capitalists and their greedy corporations.
With [1] we return to bliss and continue on building the ideal society. Why shouldn’t the Other 49 be charged for this advanced instruction in government? With [2], as only a few Republicans stand mired in the error of their ways, the natural flow into egalitarianism follows in due course. The money will be properly collected and more properly spent. The greedy will be made to apologize for their abuses. But, [3] is still a little messy with the current state of talk radio and other communication avenues. They cannot, as yet, pull a
But, saved by the notion that ‘
Thus, the direction is clear and we need to dig deep into our white male pockets and extract as much money and wealth as we possibly can to give the artists and innovators in
rycK
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[1] Copulating with Coprolites: The Unveiled Mechanism of Governance by Progressive Liberalism in
[2] It takes time to explain thing to imbeciles.
[3] Given revisionism and other corruptions of history.
[4] Even when the choice is either A or B never do they get up to a correct answer 50% of the time.
[6] In satire: The Road to Social Success, Peace and Justice:
In Fact: The Road to Social Success, Peace and Justice:
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[9] Controller: $2.19 billion in
[10] Analysis: Recent
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