Obama Threatens to Rescind California’s Stimulus Money
Today the regime in the White House threatened to rescind the stimulus money that is allocated to California if the state goes forward with their plan to cut the wages of some state employees.
California, like the rest of the country, is facing tough economic times, probably even more-so than most other states. These economic times require tough decisions to be made and California made the decision that some state employees would have to take a pay cut. Unfortunately for California this administration is so far in debt to labor unions that they are strong arming the state with the threat of rescinding stimulus money for political gains with the unions.
This president evidently feels that he has the right to step in and tell a state how it should be run. This is one of the problems with states accepting federal stimulus money, they have whored themselves out to the federal government.
Drastic times call for drastic measures and if some people need to take a pay cut in order to make the state more solvent than so be it, that is up to the state legislators and the governor, the president has no authority to step in and tell a state how it should be run.
This president is over-reaching and assuming powers that the president was never supposed to have. We have seen it in the private sector and now we are seeing it at the state level. It is time to stand up and say enough is enough. Hopefully California will stand up and tell the president that his thug mentality and strong arm threatening politics will not work. The governor should tell the usurper in the White House to mind his own business and tell him where he can put the stimulus money.
I don’t think that is going to happen though. Governor Schwarzenegger will roll over and play dead for the president.
America's Watchtower 
Arnie is the biggest RINO in the history of California Republicans, he’s a Kennedy in disguise, of course he’ll roll over and do exactly what his emperor tells him to do!!
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Arnie is NO Kennedy. You must be out of your mind. No, Arnie is incompetent AND dishonest.
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How is that unlike the Kennedys?
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I say, smile, take the money, and then tell Obama to stick it. Unions are pillaging California all the way from the state down to school district level. It’s criminal.
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GOOD GRIEF! How can the federal government tell ANY state how to run its government?! I am stunned but then there are so many things happening today that the former administration was accused of doing; like overstepping their boundaries? What goes here? Have we got another administration that wants to overstep their boundaries too? What is then the difference between the Obama administration and the Bush administration? One bad deal after another?
Americans beware…change in administration does not mean A CHANGE in administration!
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Unfortunately state rights are a thing of the past. The federal government has grown too big and too bloated. By taking this stimulus money the states have further prostituted themselves to the federal government. Once they are in debt to the federal government they must obey.
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You are deceived if you think state employees are your problem. I am a state employee. I work full time and do good work. I am an exception in that I work in a good environment (in higher ed.) but, for the most part, that is not true of all state employees. Our salaries (mine included) are not enough to sustain a middle to lower middle class life without more than one income in a household. I have a car that is paid for and only two credit cards, no vices except for coffee. And, just in case you are wondering I am a white woman, 59 years old with little retiremnet because of the greedy wall street people who caused that to deminish to practicly nothing. Their are many others like me.
So don’t tell me that unions are what’s killing the state.
I offer a thought about our society at large. We seem to want something for nothing. We shop at big box stores who manufacture low quality products, out of country, so we can pay less on our low wages. Try an experiment and see if you can go a couple of days without buying something that was made outside the US. Corporations make billions of dollars while fighting against offering decent wages, they cut our benefits, but rarely, very rarely, do they ever cut their own. Walmart was even encouraging their employees (elderly and part-timers, I think) to go on Medi-care rather than give them benefits (the largest company in the world with the huge increasing profits even in this economy)We need to start seeing for ourselves, rather than listening to the same people who regulate our lives while insuring that theirs keep getting better. More money more freedom for them. Less money, less freedom for us.
Try to name a state service that you can live without and look into what the people who do that job earn. roads, damns, education, health department, DMV, libraries, police, fire dept. They all need support and we need them. State employees are hard working people trying to raise families just like the rest of us.
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I think that you have misunderstood my point. I did not say, or imply, that unions were killing the state, and I did not say or imply that state workers were what is wrong with the state. That was not the point of this post. My problem is with the federal government inserting itself in a state matter. The federal government has no business telling a state how to do its business or run its state. If the state decides to cut the pay of state empolyees than the federal government has no right to step in.
What I was reffering to when I mentioned unions was the fact that the Obama administration is so far in the tank for unions because of all the campaign donations that he feels he needs to step into California’s problems to protect union workers. He has no business involving himself in state issues.
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