Out here in the bright sunny state of California we have ourselves a severe budget crisis.  Instead of our elected representatives fixing this problem they choose to squabble back and forth.  Republicans want to cut services, Democrats want to raise taxes, however due to California’s two thirds majority voting, the two sides can never come to an agreement.  State Controller, John Chiang, has announced that state tax refunds, welfare, and disability payments will begin being delayed by thirty days as of February 1st.  California is already drowning in our own debt and all our elected officials can do is bicker back and forth like school children.  Come to think of it, the Governator suggested that our state representatives work for free as of June in his State of the State address last night.  This was met by silence from our fine elected representatives.

Our state’s citizens are being punished by our representatives who can do little more then squabble back and forth.  Sadly most of the people who will end up complaining about this situation insist on pointing fingers at the governor, instead of the real culprits, their elected representatives.  Still do this day it amazes me on this prior ballot we can have issues to limit the amount of animals on a farm, take away the right to marriage from the gays and pass a $10 Billion Proposition to build a high speed rail, yet we can’t balance a god damned budget.  Perhaps our citizens will wake up one of these days, and hold their representatives accountable for driving our state into the ground.