"Now I am starting to care about California"

Bill Dupray sums up how I feel about California and, unfortunately, how many people should feel about New Jersey:

Now I am starting to care about California. But it is not because I am feeling altruistic, it is because their previously self-contained disaster has now spilled out into requests for bailout money from me. If I am going to be asked to bail out California, I want a right to go in and cut their spending, cut their taxes, and cut their regulations.

Damned right. If California is going to look to "the Federal government" (which is really just the rest of the states) for bailout money so they can keep spending, shouldn't "the Federal government" -- we -- tell them what they can do? Isn't that the same argument that the Feds used when they wanted a "pay czar"? When they wanted to determine what kinds of cars GM should build?

It seems to me that the Federal government told AIG what their executives could earn, and people like Andrew Cuomo threatened to make a lot of AIG names public if they kept their bonuses. Let's do the same to California: Yes, you can take our money, but to do it you'll have to take severe pay cuts and reduce services across the board. Get back in line with fiscal responsibility and we just might let you take control again -- once you've paid us back.

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Corzine gets EPA for premission to turn NJ in California

From Nj.com:

The Environmental Protection Agency today gave the go-ahead for 14 states, including New Jersey, to adopt stricter auto emission standards to curb green house gases.

Our Governor wants to continue to make his mark in destroying the state New Jersey. You probably remember his insistence on government funded stem cell research after taxpayers rejected his proposal. His new agenda is to make New Jersey just like California:

Gov. Jon Corzine in his tenure has pushed several environmental initiatives, including passing the Global Warming Response Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and setting the goal of having New Jersey produce 1,000 megawatts of power by wind by 2013 and 3,000 megawatts by 2020.

I wish I was a rich guy like Jon Corzine. As politicians go, he is completely dull but in this state he doesn't have to do anything but buy commercials that make him look if not statesmanlike, marginal. The last time he excited an NJ resident she was under his payroll clearly in opposition to state ethics laws. But someone needs to make this guy stop. I can't take any more Corzine prescriptions. They always cost me money and do nothing for the state. Corzine wants NJ to be just like California on this issue. And we now know how that turns out.

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