Letter to the Editor: California’s Out of Money Again? Really?

» b_reynaldo on 12.31.09 @ 04:35 PM

Fantastic letter.  Argentina was called the Switzerland of South America in the early 1900s, and at that time was wealthier than most European nations.  Certainly a lot of parallels between Democratic Progressivism and the Peronism that destroyed the Argentine economy.

I’d like to see a debate between Daniel Petry and Joe Armendariz on one side, and Lois Capps and Jerry Roberts on the other.

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» Of course California's out of money on 12.31.09 @ 07:24 PM

They keep sucking money out of the middle class, forcing them out of the state, crippling businesses, forcing them out of the state to give to the poor. Who is supposed to provide them jobs and thereby produce revenue for the government? They keep bringing in MORE poor by lack of immigration enforcement and attracting them with handouts to get more votes for the liberal legislators. What would you expect? Where does it end? In the toilet of course, they won’t give up until we have the same corrupt government and poverty ridden environment as Mexico.

2010 elections here we come! People are suffering too much, losing jobs, houses until we wake up and kick out the tax and spenders and entitlement minded legislators. Ahhh-Nold turned out to be a big girly man.

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» P Dub J, Long Beach on 01.01.10 @ 12:26 PM

Hats off for Mr. Petry.  Our clue-less Congressional leadership(there’s an oxy-moron) and radically, liberal President are, in fact, sucking the life blood out of our once proud country. Just like our Californian Senators and Assemblymen and Women have here.

The sadness is that, as Daniel infers, the majority won’t know what hit them until it’s way to late.

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» Lt. Columbo on 01.02.10 @ 09:20 AM

Capps would never agree to debate Joe Armendariz. Who is Daniel Petry?

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» Lt. Columbo on 01.02.10 @ 05:51 PM

You see, that is my problem, I’m wondering who is going to replace her in the congress. Do you have any thoughts about who that person might be? Any ideas at all?

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» You Are Clueless on 01.03.10 @ 01:13 AM

ck, spoken like a true Peronista. Mr. Petry is simply relating historical facts. But ck, let’s not let history get in the way of reliving it, eh?

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» Kris on 01.03.10 @ 01:11 PM

Excellent piece Mr. Petry.  I definitely would love to see you debate Capps, she would be a deer caught in the headlights. Sad we actually have people like her, and Pelosi showing the rest of the country how ignorant we have become. Like all addicts, California has to hit the bottom before it can begin to recover.

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» KGallant on 01.03.10 @ 03:44 PM

Last time I checked, 2+2 still equaled 4, eighty years ago. Good job Petry.

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» Real blame on 01.03.10 @ 06:58 PM

I am surprised that cf has not placed the blame for California’s problems with Bush. 
Usually people of his ilk blame everything on Bush.

Mr. Petry, thanks for the great letter.  Please try to get it into print in EVERY California community!

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» AHamilton on 01.04.10 @ 02:30 PM

@Upset yet hopeful:  Could you provide more detail?  For example, explain what posting here you regard as criminal, and how prosecuting such a criminal posting fits in with your view of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

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» BNeilson on 01.04.10 @ 03:51 PM

After serious consideration I think I like Ahamilton’s mindset. 

A second stimulus of say 800 billion this time, pass the health care bill of 2.5 trillion (that includes the 800 billion of un-funded mandates to the States), open up the border for restriction free travel and make every one a citizen with full rights, pass cap and trade, close down the coal industry, ban domestic energy production, close all nuclear facilities, pass the free choice act, and pass the FCC bills that would guarantee total censorship…oops…I meant total diversity of the airwaves.  We need to stop these right wing, Glenn Beck loving, Sarah Palin admiring, hate mongers…

...and especially attack obviously concerned mothers who just want the best for their children. 

Why?  Simple.  We need to bankrupt America.  Seriously.  If we can make this country insolvent we can then bankrupt the States.  Let’s don’t worry about Cali we already succeeded there, so we just need to work on the other 49.  We can then remove the USD as the reserve currency for the global economy.  That would cut off the U.S. from reserve sales.  Take that all you evil capitalists!  Keep this in mind because it’s important in this plan. 

Once we have done that we can truly transform America.  We now have a clean slate to start from.  The money’s worthless, the economy is well on the way to central control or straight barter, the States are fending for themselves, small companies have been destroyed and people are using greenbacks for fuel.  Now’s the time to strike.  Sorry “Upset but hopeful” one must trample the weak and hurdle the dead for the cause.

Ok…now don’t get too excited, we have one small hitch.  We need the guns.  We can’t truly control people that disagree with us when they can shoot back.  Oops…now wait a minute…that might be a problem.  Let’s think about this now.  Democratic progressives don’t own any.  And these hateful gun owners say things like, “ram it down our throat in ’09.”  They are so rude.

What can we do?  I know!  We create a civilian corp of volunteers…let’s call it AmeriCorp…oh oh oh…wait. We can name it SEIU or ACORN and fund it like the U.S. Army.  They can go around and pick up the guns.  Not including us - our vast brainpower is needed elsewhere. We did it in New Orleans.  We can do it on a national scale.  YES WE CAN!!  Sí, Se puede!!

We’ll even give the volunteers their own shirts to wear.  Right now I’m thinking brown but rainbow might work also, and even give them armbands with pithy logos, (there’s one that I think is appropriate but it was taken over 80 years ago)...all right; let’s don’t worry about that right now.   

But wait…the people that have the guns don’t want to give them up; and OMG they shoot back, silly fools actually believe that the Second Amendment was designed to protect them from people like us.  That’s ridiculous, don’t they know we are here to help?  But there are more of them then there are of us.  OK guys, we have to think this out a little better…but we’re making progress.  One step at a time boys…we’re doing great so far.  Now about that Amnesty program…

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» Marian on 01.04.10 @ 10:07 PM

AHamilton.  I just read Hopeful’s comments and it is obvious that she is just concerned about her child.  Shame on you for not having any of the vaunted liberal compassion.  Stop acting like a vindictive self-centered adolescent.  May God have mercy on you.

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» BNeilson on 01.05.10 @ 12:04 AM

This is hilarious, but oh so sweet. We now have cf calling AHamilton ficticious. How do you like that AHamilton?  You are just another straw dog. It’s so easy to turn you guys. Weak minds are like that.

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» BNeilson on 01.05.10 @ 01:31 AM

AHamilton, per cf you are ficticious and just a straw dog.

Hopeful. You have to understand that Democratic progressives find it difficult to deal with facts. You know when you hit a nerve when they can only attack. So don’t fret too much, there are a number of options other than government schools. Home school, charter, etc. Be agressive and you will be able to fight successfully for your childs mind.

Bottom line. Great article from Petry.

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» cf on 01.05.10 @ 10:08 AM

@ Upset yet hopeful: A fun thing to do on July 4 is to read The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and those sort of things. I guess it depends on your idea of fun, though.

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» John Locke on 01.05.10 @ 09:12 PM

Dead on, Mr. Petry.  Those who now try to blame Arnold for not solving the problems left by Gray forget that when Arnold was elected, ALL of his concomitant voter initiatives that were on the ballot and would have provided legal bases to address the budget issues were defeated.  The problem is not Arnold; the problem is the schizophrenic voters of California, where all the men are beautiful, all the women are strong, and all the children are above average.  This beautiful state is doomed to die of freespending progressive foolishness; you can thank the professors at Berkeley and similarly oriented institutions..

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» AN50 on 01.07.10 @ 02:40 PM

Tam, thanks as always for the response. I have no heart burn at all with your pursuit of alternatives, just your priority over which ones. That is another discussion. My concern is with this attitude of retreat. Low energy lifestyle is something we in the lower socioeconomic classes practice daily. We take offense when pointy headed liberal elites tell us to back off on consumption. If Al Gore were to park his jet, ride a bike and live in an apartment he might make a better example for his low carbon/low energy lifestyle pleas and free up energy for the masses. Tam, the working class folks are getting very tired of always sacrificing for the elite. Don’t preach to us about low energy, practice it and show us how you think it works. Do it for a while and see how that works for you first. We, who make the things you use, fix the things you break and clean up the messes you make already have a low energy consumption lifestyle by economic necessity.

As I said earlier, we need to look at making MORE energy available to MORE people and cheaper not the other way around. I want to see all the people on this planet enjoy the comfort and convenience that AL Gore enjoys. That is part and parcel of my religious faith, looking out for the other guy. If we can land a man on the moon, no small feat indeed, we can solve the peak oil problem, but mark my words here, Tam, retreat is NOT an option. Building windmills may be a great conservation tool or stop gap measure but our efforts should be on annihilating the points an21 made about elitist control of resources. Our country enjoyed the most prosperous growth and the most escalation of living standards for all when we allowed the market, open and free, to distribute cheap abundant energy to everyone. Yes regulation is necessary to ensure safety and competition as well as keep the liars, cheats and thieves at bay, but should never be used to control output like the liberal elites want. To that end let’s stop this harkening back to the dark ages where those of us at the bottom spent most of our time in survival mode and instead look at what we can do to make things better than they are.

That will take a lot more energy than we consume now and the best way to ensure that we find that energy and distribution is abundant and cheap is a capitalist free enterprise system. It worked for your parents and ancestors here and will work for you too if you drop the liberal global socialism crap and this awful capitulation to a lesser standard of living. You can submerse yourself in defeat and fear, but I know we can do it. We just have to shake you doomsayers off our legs so we can march FORWARD.

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