Scary news from Cali

[timmgirvan]

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/16/25615.htm

unbelieveable situation in court system....like throwing a pebble across a lake!

[SCUDSBROTHER]

My parents been paying like $600-$700 in property tax each year for a long time. The young people who bought the house across the street (say 5 years ago) were probably paying 3-5k/yr. in property tax. I'm sure that now went down slightly when housing prices dipped. My parents stayed put all these years, because prop 13 froze those prop taxes. In other words, we gave this older generation the fkn bank. By the time I get half of this, it might be a $400k house. 4 OR 5 years ago, there really wasn't a house in W. Covina selling for much less than half a mil. I knew it was fake. Told him to sell, but they'd have to give up that cheap prop tax deal. So, they're still there. They like the weather. Guess they're gunna die out there. Still gunna be getting that low prop tax. I know that. Anyways, that part of the fiscal problem (low prop tax money.) Combine that with having to pay for the schooling of the products of irresponsible breeders, and we've def. got problems. Meg W. will come in n' cut services. It isn't the same running a state versus running EBAY. She'll wish she'd stayed the hell home. Running EBAY was a thousand times easier. Dictators are totally lost when they have to participate in running a Democracy.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

My parents been paying like $600-$700 in property tax each year for a long time. The young people who bought the house across the street (say 5 years ago) were probably paying 3-5k/yr. in property tax. I'm sure that now went down slightly when housing prices dipped. My parents stay put all these years, because prop 13 froze those prop taxes. In other words, we gave this older generation the fkn bank. By the time I get half of this, it might be a $400k house. 4 OR 5 years ago, there really wasn't a house in W. Covina selling for much less than half a mil. I knew it was fake. Told him to sell, but they'd have to give up that cheap prop tax deal. So, they're still there. They like the weather. Guess they're gunna die out there. Still gunna be getting that low prop tax. I know that.

Valid points....not on point, though. This was about a court system that is and will ultimately fail because the legislature acted/reacted to pressure brought on by unions(mostly) to keep status quo, and not plan for the economic future

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Valid points....not on point, though. This was about a court system that is and will ultimately fail because the legislature acted/reacted to pressure brought on by unions(mostly) to keep status quo, and not plan for the economic future

We've had a 30% population increase. I would imagine more room was needed. Shocking that the new 30% didn't result in enough new taxes to pay for the services needed. Guess replacing Aerospace workers with weedwacker artists isn't working. We have a complex problem, but

1) They need to stop denying the importance of getting that border sealed off.

2) Need to make due with the brick n' mortar they've already got.

3) Need to stop giving citizenship to everything dropped on the ground.

4)Find a way to overcome the fact we are 33 mil people represented by the same number of Senators as 500k Americans in some states. So, should break the state up into at least 2 or 3 states. This must be done.

Yea, it'd be nice to transfer the money (like they said to do for maintaining court services.)

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

We've had a 30% population increase. I would imagine more room was needed. Shocking that the new 30% didn't result in enough new taxes to pay for the services needed. Guess replacing Aerospace workers with weedwacker artists isn't working. We have a complex problem, but

1) They need to stop denying the importance of getting that border sealed off.

2) Need to make due with the brick n' mortar they've already got.

3) Need to stop giving citizenship to everything dropped on the ground.

4)Find a way to overcome the fact we are 33 mil people represented by the same number of Senators as 500k Americans in some states. So, should break the state up into at least 2 or 3 states. This must be done.

Yea, it'd be nice to transfer the money (like they said to do for maintaining court services.)

The Senate is supposed to protect the monority from th majority
they used to need 67 votes to stop a filibuster but we have a group in there that changes the rules whenever they feel the need. Now we need someone to protect us from the minority. <--Consisdering that 75% of the people are against healthcare reform.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

The Senate is supposed to protect the monority from th majority
they used to need 67 votes to stop a filibuster but we have a group in there that changes the rules whenever they feel the need. Now we need someone to protect us from the minority. <--Consisdering that 75% of the people are against healthcare reform.

There is no good reason for unequal representation for Americans. Somebody had an idea to take some Americans power away. They fkd up. What excuse do you have for not letting Washington D.C. have representation? It's about the same population as Wyoming. It's just not a population you like. So, Republicans killed that in 2007. Bush threatened to veto it, but now REPS. are "all in" on the Minority Rights stuff. They're just a bunch of hypocrites doing the white shuffle.