Most in California feel a financial strain

TOO THE VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA!

The only way you`re gonna turn your state around, is to get rid of the corrupt polticians for good... California is a bankrupt, illegal alien infested state, and it will only get worse if you allow the sell-outs and the reconquistas to remain in office... You`ll have only yourselves too blame!

That California is collapsing should come as no surprise to anyone who follows current events.

You have a quasi-socialist regime that believes in one thing and one thing only, raising taxes in order to shovel more money to illegal aliens.

I was fortunate to be able to retire this year and I moved out of the state.

Things are only going to get worse. Who knows where it will eventually wind up- perhaps a warlord state like Afghanistan in 2001.

For those who voted for deranged fools like Villraigosa, Newsom, and Nunez, I say, you reap what you sow.

For the innocent who are feeling the effects as much as the guilty, I say, you do have one advantage over them. And that is that you have some intelligence. I advise you to use that intelligence and get out of the state as quickly as possible.

There is no way the other 49 states are going to be willing to bail out California, because we know that there is no way to salvage that rotting hulk of a sinking ship known as the state of California, we would simply cause the rest of the country to collapse along with it.

There's only 2 things keeping me from moving permanently to beautiful British Columbia, which I frequently visit and consider my second home. first is the cold winters, 2nd and most ironically, I'd become what I'm trying to get away from, an illegal alien!

missed you lance! on the money as usual...

lol california starting feel like and look like east germany before the soviet collapse

I am over 60 years old and back in the 50's and 60's California was an American Paradise!!!
American citizens lived here and hardly any illegal aliens. Immigration was allowed in comfortable numbers.
Illegal aliens were not in our schools asking for handouts.
They were not making thousands of babies here and getting handouts as their reward.
And Americans could go to any emergency room and get medical attention fast.
Now look what has happened due to open borders??

Go to U-tube and place:
Mexican Insurgency in Baldwin Park

You will get sick!

Common sense will tell that with the enormous illegal alien population in California and the services that they enjoy, thanks to the taxpayers, the economy evertually goes bust. You need to get rid of all the liberals in office and start over. Fine the employers and enforce the immigration laws. Otherwise, you are doomed. The rest of America better get a clue because all this illegality will spread to the rest of the nation.
My sympathies to Mrs. Bologna and her family for the horrible tragedy perpetrated on her and her family due to the insane sanctuary policies of San Francisco and its disgusting, incompetent mayor. He needs to be ousted from office.

Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo wrote Schwarzenegger a letter this week with this proposed solution:

"The available data suggests that California could save several billion dollars by reducing the amount spent providing services to illegal aliens residing in the state."

A 2004 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors restrictions on all immigration, found California spent nearly $11 billion a year on education, healthcare, and law enforcement for illegal aliens.

RICK OLTMAN, CALIFORNIA FOR POP. STABILIZATION: If we really want to balance the budget and we can eliminate these costs from the budget, the taxpayer will be served and we'll also be dealing with the illegal immigration problem.

That $11 BILLION was 4 YEARS AGO!!!! We can only imagine what it is now...4 years later and MILLION more illegals!

lol... the illegals will vote it out!!!!

Illegal aliens cost California $11 BILLION for medical, incarceration, education, etc.

HELP STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.......MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD: http://www.numbersusa.com/dfax...

We should switch countries. Give the US to Mexico and the US can take Mexico. Then they will start crawling back south.

Only in this world do you find tens of millions of illegals from Mexico when the worlds riches man Carlos Slim lives in Mexico and made his billions there. Too bad we don't get educated intelligent illegal aliens in the US. We only get the illiterate, poor, handicaped, ignorant, peasants.

Billions and billions in taxes gone to waste each year because of illegals just in California. If California only had a bounty for each illegal out there.

I rather spend $5 per lettuce to get rid of illegals in this country. Then I wont have to wait in line at the ER at the hospital when I pay for my own private health care, worry about criminals or gangs, worry about hit and run drivers, worry about drunk drivers, crowded schools for legal US citizens not born from illegal parents giving birth in the US, jail and prison costs, etc.

If you think it's bad today, just think how things will be once the current crop of LAUSD students grows up and is running the city.

They'll make Antonio Villaraigosa look like Ronald Reagan.

Boom Boom Slick Peter wrote:

People need to stay and fight rather than run and talk like they do. It doesn't look like an easy fight but what would you rather do? Talk like you are tough or be strong and take this back? Cowards run... America needs to say enough is enough no more paying taxes to float the illegals and their huge litters of children who will do no better...

all good points, but i'm not about to start fathering 20 kids and beating up mi esposa for no good reason every night.

Over 11 billion a year in CA goes to "free services" for illegal aliens, most from Mexico. Mexico in the meantime "owns" its own oil. It is not owned by Mobil or Chevron, the government of Mexico owns it. So you have to wonder why hard working Americans who don't get free healther care or education or food stamps or welfare are paying for Mexico's citizens to do so.
Seems like there are more concerns for illegals whose government could easily pay for their needs with all of their oil dollars than the poor strapped American citizens who are watching the Gov cut their services in education and across the board rather than hold the Mexican government accountable for using CA as a "stop gap" on their own inequities to their citizens.
Just ask LA County Supervisor Michael Antonovich how much illegals cost Los Angeles tax payers (just LA County, not Orange, San Bernadino, San Diego, Ventura, Riverside) and it is 1 Billion, just in one county.

For all intents and purposes, California is a "third world" nation within our nation. The liberal democrats have succeeded in the creation of a "workers paradise" within the U.S.A. The Obamasiah will attempt to impose this agenda on the rest of the country. Meanwhile, most of our citizens don't have a clue!

Why not let in more illegals? I'm sure that'll help the situation.. California only spends about 15 billion a year on them!

Unless we stop free trade,it's going to get worse.

We can't compete with the cheap labor abroad period.
The only thing that will get us out of this comming recession would be easy money and the ability to leverage.Those days are gone.
Our pensions are becomming more worthless by the month,add to that a medicare crises and an aging population(Average factory worker today is 43 years old)and were screwed.
And any rich cat out there who thinks they won't be affected are living in a dream world.

Timothy wrote:

If you think it's bad today, just think how things will be once the current crop of LAUSD students grows up and is running the city.
They'll make Antonio Villaraigosa look like Ronald Reagan.

That is La Raza and Mexico's goal isn't it?
Terry Anderson says that there will be another Civil War. I believe him.

Steve wrote:

We should switch countries. Give the US to Mexico and the US can take Mexico. Then they will start crawling back south.
Only in this world do you find tens of millions of illegals from Mexico when the worlds riches man Carlos Slim lives in Mexico and made his billions there. Too bad we don't get educated intelligent illegal aliens in the US. We only get the illiterate, poor, handicaped, ignorant, peasants.
Billions and billions in taxes gone to waste each year because of illegals just in California. If California only had a bounty for each illegal out there.
I rather spend $5 per lettuce to get rid of illegals in this country. Then I wont have to wait in line at the ER at the hospital when I pay for my own private health care, worry about criminals or gangs, worry about hit and run drivers, worry about drunk drivers, crowded schools for legal US citizens not born from illegal parents giving birth in the US, jail and prison costs, etc.

I guess the rest of us only have to worry about an idiot like you in the country. Go back under your rock, loser.

Richard, what the rest of us have to worry about are the ignorant and/or complicit among us (e.g., you) who don't notice or mind the fact that the city and state are circling the drain.