I honestly can't believe everything that's going on with this state, and the politicians are just about going nuts when it comes to cutting and borrowing big time, and I honestly I'm starting to wonder what in the world is up with these people.
Now everything right now is going right to heck thanks to what Brown has signed in, and it's not going to be easy in the least, and that's talking mildly to start with. (http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/03/24/2323722/fresno-county-feels-cuts-as-brown.html). With the 20 Million that's being taken away from Fresno, kids and teens are going to be the hardest hit right off, and it's not going to be stopping there either. Honestly I continue to wonder why in the world we elected this idiot into power in the first place? I know that a lot of people were feeling that it was better to have Brown then Schwarzenegger, but did no one even bother to consider Meg Whitman at all, I mean despite all of the campaigning that she had done, I ask people who they would've considered for the Governor's office, and with out mentioning any names at all, they keep saying that Brown would've been better option then having Schwarzenegger in there, and not once does Meg ever get mentioned at all. Hell I even say "Well what about Meg Whitman?" I actually had one person actually look at me and ask who was that. Honestly I wonder if we actually had a recall today and Whitman ran for office again, who anyone even know who in the world she happens to be. Last I had known, she was the one person that actually fueled her own campaign with her own money, leaving allot of others behind when it came to how much she put in herself. Heck she was actually questioned when it came to where her money was coming from at one point, and what did she do, she provided bank statements that told everyone that she was spending her own money to get into the Governor's mansion (which honestly should've gone to her in the first place, but it seems that this state can't learn from it's own past).
Now the situation when it comes to the different programs that are getting hurt here: First 5 Commission, Community colleges, and Welfare, are getting hit the hardest, and everything that deals with them. Now the First 5 deal with the first 5 years of a child's life and that is losing $1 Billion from it that Brown is taking and putting else where, which is to say that those getting helped out from that program are going to be losing out big time, which in the end won't help anyone at all. However the one thing that I like is that this one may end up in court, and I'm honestly hoping that the courts put a hold on this and tell him that he can't do this. Heck it reminds me of what Bush tried to do during his reign in office, when something had come up that was dealing with kids getting health benefits were the primary thing, Bush had vetoed it like crazy, but thankfully those that were in Congress at the time saw the wisdom in overriding his veto and put the whole thing into place (that's because they knew what would happen if they didn't over ride his veto, they would've been out of a job in a heartbeat). The next one is dealing with the Community College, which for me is hitting close to home since I had been in school the first time that this had happened with the tuition getting raised, the only thing is, no one expected within only a couple of years for the tuition to be raised as much as it had. I had been apart of a major state gathering at the capital back in (I believe) '03 when we had a march on the Capital for what then Grey Davis was doing (who had since been recalled out of office after he got reelected back in when he should've lost in the first place). Then the next thing we know over the short amount of years, the tuition kept going up and up. There's been no end to it in the last couple of years, I mean the problem currently right now is that those that are going to Fresno City College are having a hard time getting that education that they need in order to be able to get the jobs that require the degree that they need to get in order to have that job. Plus with Fresno State dropping a lot of their classes and the Jr. College level picking them up, people here are having to go between the school in order to be able to get to different classes. It's getting that bad. Then there's the welfare side of the whole coin, the side that I'm currently on since I happen to have Food Stamps right now.
Now the Welfare part is not only a personal thing, but thanks to shows like "16 and Pregnant" teens these days are wanting to get pregnant since these shows are glamorizing everything that shouldn't be glamorized in the first place. My ex had to drop out of school in order to have a baby that she had gotten pregnant with (and that was during one of our off times, I can't have kids so she kept cheating on me in order to keep having kids). Yes there are other programs out there that help out when it comes to pregnant teens, but the first thing that they keep hearing from everyone is welfare instead of these programs that help out. Now personally I begin to wondering what it's fully going to be like when they don't have these programs to rely on, but the fact is, is that with everything that's going on thanks to how the job market is, and how the businesses aren't paying their employees their due pay, things are going to be getting worse then anything anyone has ever known before.
Now this next one (http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/03/24/2323712/fresno-faces-more-cutbacks-and.html) is something that the city council is doing and the problem is, they're constantly suggesting the one thing that Target wants it's guests to do, and that's donate 5% extra for something that Target happens to have set up. I don't know who got this 5% stuff into their heads, but this is just not going to cut anything since the 5% won't do much of anything at all. However the one side that's getting hit in the least is the one that should be feeling the pinch the most after all of the bad things that they've been doing for the past couple of years, and that's the police department. I know that's wrong since we do need them, but the problem is, is that they're starting to have like a god complex that makes them think that nothing can hurt them, not even law suits. Personally I think that this is wrong and they should be effected by what's going on here, after all everyone else is being effected in ways that are making the unions sit up and take notice for once. However the only one that's actually sitting pretty here is the police and they shouldn't be at all.
Look I know that these things are going to effect all of us and there's no way in the world that we shouldn't take notice in the least, but the problem is right now that those in office are not thinking right, and I know that Brown has never thought right, one should actually look back at what's happened in the past when it comes to him and honestly start thinking of recalling him out of office. Though I'm starting to think that there should be a clause in the state constitution about serving twice after you've already served once before for the full term and then term out. Heck I believe that termed out means that they can't run again, and yet Brown not only ran again, but at the same time he won and he never should've in the first place, that right there was wrong.
Now I know that I've often getting into government here, but those are the major headlines that I'm reading here, and I don't exactly have the money to go see a movie right now to review it on here and I've asked before for people to send me links for articles that they would like to post my opinion on, which is what a blog happens to be in the first place is ones opinion on what's going on out there. Believe me I would love to talk about something other then government, but I don't have that option currently. So please help out if you don't always want to read about the government and their stupidity constantly. Just a thought.
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