La histeria climática en la sien: el suicidio de California

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1. Javi de Ríos

   febrero 18, 2009

   

   Hombre, seamos serios, echar la culpa de que “Choche” se haya cargado el solito, cual película de acción, todo el Estado de California, a su política medioambiental, pasando convenientemente de puntillas sobre a que partido pertenece este hombre y que tipo de políticas se promulgan desde esa formación, es, cuanto menos, sesgado.

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   • Luis I. Gómez

     febrero 18, 2009

     

     Hombre, siendo serio, lo lógico es que el máximo responsable de las defectuosas políticas aplicadas en California sea quien las firmó. Si los partidos en USA funcionasen como aquí (es decir, si fuesen tan sectarios como aquí y la “disciplina de partido” fuese tan enajenante como aquí) debería darte la razón. Pero ello no es así, para suerte de USA, a pesar de experimentos fallidos como Terminator.

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2. Esporádico

   febrero 18, 2009

   

   Javi, cuánta razón llevas.

   A mí, desde que los republicanos USA se dedican al socialismo, me parece que ya nada es lo que era.

   O que todo sigue igual, no sé muy bien.

   Saludos.

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3. Jordi

   febrero 18, 2009

   

   Bueno, Luis, me parece que algo mas de lo que se dice ahi si que hay:

   A Mercury News analysis of state spending since Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took office in late 2003 found that he and the Democratic-controlled Legislature have spent money well beyond the rate of inflation and California’s population growth — $10.2 billion more.

   Yet the programs that received most of that money are priorities that Californians broadly support or have demanded at the ballot box: tougher prison sentences for criminals, health care for uninsured children and an aging population, and a cut in the “car tax” that they pay every year to register their vehicles.

   So looking at the past five years, where did that “extra” $10.2 billion of state spending above the rate of inflation and population growth go? The Mercury News found:

   # The state prison system received the biggest share, about $4.1 billion of it. Corrections spending has increased fivefold since 1994. At $13 billion last year, it now exceeds spending on higher education. Tough laws and voter-approved ballot measures have increased the prison population 82 percent over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, former Gov. Gray Davis gave the powerful prison guards union a 30 percent raise from 2003 to 2008, increasing payroll costs.

   # Public health spending — mostly Medi-Cal, the state program for the poor — received $2.9 billion above the rate of inflation and population growth. Part of that spike is due to an aging population; part is rising national health care costs. But state lawmakers also expanded Medi-Cal eligibility among children and low-income women a decade ago, increasing caseloads.

   # Schwarzenegger’s first act as governor, signing an executive order to cut the vehicle license fee by two-thirds, blew a large hole in the state budget. It saved the average motorist about $200 a year but would have devastated the cities and counties that had been receiving the money. So Schwarzenegger agreed to repay them every year with state funds. That promise now costs the state $6 billion a year, or $2 billion more than the rate of inflation and population growth since early 2003.

   # Spending on a few other areas, such as higher education, general government, transportation and environment, also grew faster — by about $1 billion each — than inflation and population over the past five years. That was mostly to cover debt payments on bonds that voters approved for parks and highways, along with moves to limit university tuition increases.

   # Finally, general fund spending on K-12 schools and social services, like welfare, actually grew less than the rate of inflation and population growth.

   Y aqui la madre del cordero, una frase que te va a gustar:

   “Our society is moving in the direction of, ‘I want more from government but I don’t want to pay for it,’ ” Genest said. “Right now we have leaders making hard choices out of necessity, and we need to continue that.”

   Asi que no solo de politicas ambientales vive el Homo Californianis Arruinatus.

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4. E.

   febrero 18, 2009

   

   Por si acaso, el Chorchenaguer pone al día su curriculum…

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5. Juano

   febrero 19, 2009

   

   De poco servirá el ejemplo de California desgraciadamente…

   Por lo menos otra voz que clama en el desierto.

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