October 31, 2012
California Commentary
Have You No Sense of
When Army special counsel
Joseph Welch asked during the
1954 Army-McCarthy hearings,
"Have you left no sense of
decency?" he could just as easily
have been addressing Senate
President Pro Tem Darrell
Steinberg, Assembly Speaker
John Perez, and Governor Jerry
Brown, the political muscle
behind the Proposition 30 tax
increase.
These politicians would have
voters believe if Sacramento
does not get more money,
funding for schools must be cut.
"Yes, trigger cuts will go into
effect, and they're part of the
budget and it's automatic," Brown
told students at UCLA last week.
What's wrong with this picture?
First, Brown and his allies
increased spending by 6% this
year over last -- a remarkable
feat in this sour economy, but
more easily understood when it is
revealed that they are spending
money they do not have, which is
why the Sacramento politicians
are so desperate to raise taxes.
Second, nothing about
Proposition 30 requires cuts to
schools in the event that it does
not pass. The proposition makes
no reference to trigger cuts.
Trigger cuts are purely a creation
of the politicians, a way of
threatening voters to get them to
vote yes for higher taxes -- pass
30 or we take it out on schools!
It is just another budget gimmick
from Sacramento.
When Proposition 30 fails, the
governor and the Legislature
can immediately go back in and
fully fund education. They simply
by Jon Coupal
doubt the Sacramento politicians
continue to use threats to schools
to advance their tax increase
agenda because they know
that above all other government
programs, Californians value
education. They know that if they
were to seek a tax increase to
upgrade lawn care at government
buildings, to cover the raises they
have just given to Capitol staffers,
or to build the bullet train to which
they are committing $70 billion,
the peels of laughter emanating
from voting booths would be
deafening.
So the politicians are taking the
gangster approach of intimidation
and coercion to get the money
they want from taxpayers.
Senator Steinberg• is an old
hand at this technique. While
campaigning for Proposition 1A,
Sacramento's major tax increase
on the 2009 Special Election
ballot', he suggested withholding
basic state services to those
areas whose representatives
opposed the tax increase.
Darrell "The Enforcer" Steinberg,
along with the governor and the
speaker, is again using thuggish
threats -- this time holding
schools hostage -- to get what
he wants: More money so the
Sacramento politicians can
carry on with their irresponsible
spending.
Gentlemen, have you no
sense of decency? How can you
expect anyone to trust you when
you threaten to hurt students
and education as part of your
desperate campaign to extort
more from already overburdened
taxpayers?
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yet to be determined.
I want to thank Thelma Leon
and Rhiannon Robbins for
stepping in and,helping out with
the sidelines duties before the
game. Our managers and water-
boys were tied up on Banner
Grade and didn't get down to the
field until after the kickoff.
The team had a great Mexican
dinner at Los Jilbert0's on Palm
Canyon Drive before coming
on home under a waxing moon
and black sapphire skies. And a
tarry, gravelly slick mess coming
up the Banner Grade.
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Volleyball
continued from page I
Two years of undefeated league
play are on the line in this closing
match of the 2012 season. We're
sure the girls will be fired up, and
invite all to take a road trip over to
the other side of the mountainto
support this wonderful Volleyball
Team.
Next stop is the CIF
Tournament. The "pairing"
meeting will takeplace on
November 3rd.
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