MY CALIFORNIAN OPINION: Taxes

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER'S REVOLUTION PICKS UP SPEED

SPECIAL POST

Almost 3.9 million California taxpayers went to the polls and voted firmly against higher taxes to build a rainy day fund, education, modernization of the Lotto including a redistribution of proceeds, child services, and mental health services. 74% of those voting put a firm no on raises for elected officials whenever they can't balance the budget.

Now come the naysayers...those who do not realize the impact of the vote for what it really is. Limbaugh laments that Californians just shifted the tab to the American taxpayer. Fox News notes emphatically that it was a damned poor voter turnout....only 23% of the voters voted. The Governator put the blame for the state's financial crisis squarely at the foot of those who voted the tax increases down by saying he was going to let prisoners out, close schools and a myriad of other things because we taxpayers refused to cow-tow to Sacramento's demands to dig further into our empty pockets.

Well, here we are five months into a new Administration, in a state that always voted Democrat and which firmly backed Obama. The citizens who did vote went straight against the tax-and-spend mentality that is prevalent in Washington and Sacramento. The fact is that those who did not vote would have voted the same way as those who did vote, according to the pre-election polls. The fact is that the 66% of the Californians were not all conservative Republicans or results would have been different; this was a bi-partisan message to the country: WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!

And, if the Administration chooses to bail California out without requiring severe spending cuts and thereby lets the California government off the hook for their failures.... we're going to be madder than hell. OUR VOTE WAS TO SIGNIFY THAT WE AMERICANS LIVING IN CALIFORNIA WANT THIS DAMNED SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, TAX, TAX, TAX mentality to end! The message is that 65 to 70% of Americans across the country feel the same way and, unless Washington gets and understands this message, they are all going to be on the outside looking in after November of 2010 and 2012.

GET THE MESSAGE RIGHT, YOU LAME-BRAINED IDIOTS! WE MEAN BUSINESS and this is not something you can wave off with a smile and a nod of condescension.

That's MY CALIFORNIAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.