THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CALIFORNIA - This site is dedicated to exposing the continuing Marxist Revolution in California and the all around massive stupidity of Socialists, Luddites, Communists, Fellow Travelers and of Liberalism in all of its ugly forms.
"It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over."
Now you are going to be taxed to even take your car on the road.
And the mouth-breathing Sheeple voters keep supporting Leftist Democrats who take more and more money out of their wallets.
For the first time the People's Republic of Los Angeles County will try "congestion
pricing," charging individual drivers who want to pick up their pace and use
carpool lanes.
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The one-year pilot program will start with a stretch of the 110 Freeway
spanning 11 miles southward from downtown LA.
The express lanes could cut up to three minutes per mile off the trip, but
the trip could cost more than $15 reports San Jose Mercury News.
Toll roads and lanes have existed for years in neighboring Orange County and
are standard on the East Coast but a novelty in Los Angeles County, and one that
advocates say is long overdue and should reduce congestion for drivers in other
lanes, too.
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"It's about time," said Leftist nut-case Donald Shoup, a UCLA urban "planning" professor who has
long lobbied for toll lanes to re-distribute the wealth to Big Government.
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Some drivers were less happy. Using the lanes will require a transponder in
the car even for carpoolers, though they can still drive in them for free.
"Look at all the tax fees we're paying already," said 45-year-old Lisa Lavine
as she stood outside the office where the transponders are sold, "then they're coming
out with this."
"We shouldn't have to pay to use the everyday freeway," Lavine said.
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A 14-mile toll lane along Interstate 10 is planned for next year, and similar
lanes could end up spanning the region, with scores of existing carpool lanes
converted for tolls from individual drivers.
And the Sheeple pay and pay and pay.
The Sheeple of California keep re-electing the very insane Socialists who increase their taxes again and again.
Conservative Republican Kern County voted to fine pot dispensaries and property owners with penalties of $50,000 each plus fines of $1,000 per day.
Republican Kern County marches in lock-step with the Democrats in growing the Police State in a "war" on drugs.
Legal and peaceful trade between free people is made a "crime".
The California Kern County Board of Supervisors came down hard on medical marijuana dispensaries and their landlords in the first set of enforcement actions under Measure G, the restrictive zoning ordinance approved by Kern voters in June.
Supervisors voted unanimously in a majority of the 12 cases before them to hit dispensaries and property owners with penalties of $50,000 each plus fines of $1,000 per day, starting Wednesday, until the establishments close or move to a permitted location.
Rejecting sometimes bitter accusations that Measure G is a de facto ban on otherwise lawful businesses, the board found that the dispensaries constituted public nuisances in violation of new zoning rules that forbid dispensaries from operating within prescribed distances of schools, parks and other establishments reports The Bakersfield Californian.
Pot Wars in California
Not all the businesses ended up with fines. Proceedings against one dispensary and its landlord were dropped entirely without explanation, while another was given until Jan. 1 to come into compliance with the zoning ordinance. Another dispensary, Rosamond's Top Flight Organics, and its landlord escaped without fines after evidence was presented that the business had recently ceased operations.
Some dispensary representatives pleaded with the board not to fine them, saying they could not afford the penalty and that there was nowhere else they could set up their business.
"The individuals have no rights anymore," property owner, Joe Ypez, said.
Socialism 101 - Politicians simply tax those who do not support them and give the money to those who do.
What person in his right mind would start a brand new business in California?
But Democrats are too fucking stupid to figure out that more business means more tax revenue to spend.
For Socialist Democrats it is all about punishing the rich and class warfare.
By Gary;
The election madness is over. Now we return to the "normal" madness that is the People's Republic.
By a 54% - 46% margin, the oppressed Serfs obeyed Comrade Governor Jerry Brown and his labor union Masters and raised income taxes on the "evil" rich . . . you remember the rich. Those bastards that create jobs and wealth. Now billions of dollars will be sucked from the wallets of the Capitalist scum and re-distributed to cover the gaping black holes of government employee union pensions.
Forget the Socialist lies, the school children will see nothing. Higher taxes is all about labor union salaries and benefits. When fully fed the unions then recycle that money to the Democrat Party in the form of corrupt campaign contributions.
If you are a public employee union member you are jumping for joy. But if you are simply a member of the general public then bend over because you are getting fucked with new sales taxes, fewer jobs and more debt.
California has taken the road to Socialist Greek spending, debt, and poverty.
Meanwhile even the "Communists" in China and Vietnam have figured out that being pro-business makes them a shitload of money to spend. But American Democrats are too stupid to understand.
All Hail Karl Marx and equal poverty for all. . . . . unless you are in the unions.
Members of the California Democratic Party Central Committee.
California GOP at a pitiful 29.4% of the state's voters
It is the lowest GOP showing since the state started tracking in 1922.
In 1999 the California GOP stood at 35.2%.
Voter registration has hit record highs in California while Republicans' share of voters has dropped to a historic low statewide and countywide, according to final numbers posted by the secretary of state Friday.
California Republicans have a serious concern. Republicans dropped below 30 percent of all voters for the first time since the state began tracking party affiliation in 1922. Republicans are now at 29.4 percent of all voters, down from 31.4 in 2008 reports the Orange County Register.
Democrats have also lost voter share in the state but unlike Republicans, increased their raw numbers. Democrats now account for 43.7 percent of voters, down from 44.4 percent in 2008. Unaffiliated voters have increased from 19.9 percent to 20.9 percent.
Statewide, 18.2 million people are registered to vote – 77 percent of all of those eligible to register, according to Secretary of State Debra Bowen. That's 942,000 more than in 2008. The surge of voter registration in the last 45 days is less than in the last presidential election, with 986,000 signing up this year while 1.2 million registered during that period four years ago.
. For the California GOP to grow it would help that they actually stand for something. It was just this August that State Assembly Republican Caucus Chairman Brian
Nestande voted with the Democrats to increase sales taxes. . See our article: GOP Leader Nestande votes for more taxes then resigns.
Betrayed
Again Anti-tax voters have
been betrayed by California GOP leaders over and over and over again. Republicans leaders from
Governor Schwarzenegger to Lt. Governor Able Maldonado to GOP leaders in the
legislature have all supported tax increases.
Democrats propose one of the highest sales taxes in America
The only thing the mentally challenged Marxist Democrats can think of is taking more and more money out of your wallet.
The People's Republic of Los Angeles has floated a familiar plan to bail out the California city’s over-ballasted budget. . . . taxes, taxes and more fucking God Damn taxes.
Los Angeles, despite showing thousands of city employees the exit door and with massive deficits looming for years, has managed to come up about $216 million short in its anticipated fiscal budget, even after laying off another 200 workers in the near future, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
However Wednesday, the city will discuss tax increases to be added to the March ballot, including a half-cent sales tax hike promoted by council President Herb Wesson that would squeeze another $220 million a year from taxpayers to plug the deficit reports The Examiner.
Sound familiar? If implemented, Los Angeles residents and visitors will face one of the highest sales tax rates in the state and country.
City officials claim they can’t find any cuts anywhere save basic services to balance their spending.
Meanwhile, other tax measures Los Angeles city council members will consider Wednesday include a hike in property taxes to pay for parks, higher levies on parking lots and raising real estate sales taxes.
LA Times writer and her PATHETIC article on Prop 30. John and Ken Show
Banned In California. Democrats and Republicans joined together to keep all smaller parties off California general election ballots. The Democrats want to prevent voters from casting ballots for left-wing parties. The GOP wants to prevent voters from supporting right-wing candidates such as Jim Gilchrist (above).
Neither major party has any interest in a thing called Freedom.
California's 48th congressional district special election, 2005
Sample of a free election - Voters have many choices.
The 2010 California Elections - The last free election.
The corrupt political hacks in Sacramento have banned all smaller political parties from all general election ballots.
Now in almost every contest voters will only be allowed to only vote for a Democrat or a Republican.
Write-in votes were made illegal.
Welcome to the ultra-corrupt People's Republic of California.
Corruption - When sample ballots started arriving a few weeks ago many California voters must have wondered where all the candidates went. Previously it was possible to vote for someone other than a Republican or Democrat; most voters will not have that option this year.
Some voters won't even get to choose between a Republican and Democrat. They'll have to pick between two Democrats or two Republicans.
What happened to all the other candidates? A corrupt Proposition 14 was agreed to by both parties in a backroom midnight deal without one single public hearing. Now only the two top parties make it to a general election ballot. Even write-in votes were made illegal.
One characteristic of democratic systems is that voters have freedom of choice; they get to cast their ballot for whomever they consider the best option. In American politics, that means if the Republican and Democratic candidates aren't good enough, people can vote independent, Libertarian, Green or write in someone else. Even if the candidate doesn't win, voters still get to make their preferences known.
In February, the corrupt Legislature increased the number of signatures needed for minor party candidates from a maximum of 150 to between 1,500 and 10,000, depending on the office.
Both parties act together to prevent the voters from having real choices on election day.
Congressman Charles Randall Prohibition Party
Free Elections in the Olden Days
Back in the olden days California had something called a free election.
Candidates from many different political parties were on the same ballot. Sometimes the smaller parties won. Candidates from the American, Workingmen, Prohibition, Green, Progressive and Anti-Monopoly Parties have been elected to office in the Golden State.
Charles Randall was a member of the California State Assembly from 1911 to 1912. In 1914, Randall was elected to the United States Congress as a member of the Prohibition Party.
Taking advantage of California election laws at the time, Randall was re-elected in 1916 as the nominee of the Prohibition, Democratic, Republican, and Progressive parties defeating Charles W. Bell (running as an independent candidate) by the margin of 58,826 to 33,270 (57.8% to 32.7%) with 9,661 votes for the Socialist Party candidate.
Randall was re-elected by a 38,782 to 31,689 (55% to 45%) margin over a Republican in 1918.
California's 9th congressional district election, 1914
For Socialist Democrats higher taxes are all pay-offs to the groups that fund their campaigns
California voters should not be seduced by the delusion that Prop. 30 will fund schools, because it won't. If the governor and Sacramento Democrats really wanted to fund education, they would do so and threaten to cut funds from the $68.7 billion bullet train or roll back some of our nation's most generous welfare benefits.
If Proposition 30 passes, the $6 billion it would soak from taxpayers would just go straight to public-employee pensions. The facts are provided in a op-ed in the Orange County Register by Phil Yarbrough and Don Wagner:
“Prop. 30 was written specifically not to guarantee funding for schools. The official title and summary of Prop. 30 says the money it raises can be used for ‘paying for other spending commitments.’”
So what would those “other spending commitments” be?
“Californians need to know what is really in the budgets that the governor and the Democratic legislators have approved. This year’s budget is already $15.7 billion out of balance. Pensions and other retirement programs for state employees will cost $6.4 billion this year and they will increase to $7.6 billion by 2016, and they will keep increasing thereafter, forever until California is bankrupt.
“The roughly $6 billion that Prop. 30 will take from California families next year will be gobbled up by our out-of-balance budget. The governor and Democrats in the Legislature then will cut education funding anyway.”
In sum, the $6 billion from Prop. 30 would go to pay $6.4 billion in state pension payments.
Six of the 26 toss-up Congressional Districts are in California
California is key to Republican control of the House of Representatives.
To hear Socialist California Democrats tell it, Republican Congressional candidate John Tavaglione is aligned with the conservative establishment . . . . sounds good to me so far, but Tavaglione also refused to sign a no new taxes pledge.
So here you have a weak-kneed Republican "moderate" vs a Socialist Democrat. You take what you can get I guess.
But the worst Republican is better than the very best Democrat who would cast a vote to make Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House.
Ad against Tavaglione's Democrat opponent
Tavaglione, a Riverside County Supervisor, is running against Democrat Mark Takano in the newly redrawn 41st Congressional District, which includes Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris and Jurupa Valley. Democrats narrowly outnumber Republicans in the district by a margin of 41.4 percent to 38.4 percent, and both men have described themselves as centrists willing to work with members of both parties.
Tvaglione chastised Takano for pledging not to join the Blue Dogs, a fiscally conservative group of House Democrats, if he is elected. That pledge was made in a questionnaire that Takano’s campaign filled out for the liberal-leaning blog Daily Kos.
Tavaglione said he opposes portions of the federal budget proposed by Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman selected as the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee. Ryan's budget “makes serious changes to Medicare — too radical in my view,” he said.
. The district is centered in the city of Riverside, California. Voter registration is 41% Democrat, 38% Republican and 21% independent and smaller parties.
Jerry Brown wants to destroy the Delta and farmers. Chuck Baker stands before the Baker Ranch, a 30-acre pear orchard and family heirloom on Sutter Island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The ranch has been in the Baker family for nearly 150 years. Photo: (McClatchy-Tribune News Service / SF)
Jerry Brown rapes the Sacramento Delta "I'm not willing to sacrifice my land for somebody growing cotton in the desert." - - - Chuck Baker, Delta Farmer
Brown's water tunnel will destroy the environment in a corrupt pay-off to giant agri-business and the construction companies and union labor that would build it.
Brown insanely says taking water away from the Delta helps the Delta grow stronger.
The San Francisco Chronicle did a wonderful story about Delta Farmer Chuck Baker and how Jerry Brown's insane water tunnel plan would destroy a great treasure of California.
The vast delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, where Chuck Baker's family has lived and farmed since the 1850s, has long been the center of California's chronic water conflicts. It is the switchyard of the state's water, the place where the north's liquid riches are shipped to the irrigation ditches of the San Joaquin Valley and the sinks of Southland suburbs.
Now the delta has become the defiant seat of rebellion against the most ambitious water supply project proposed in California in decades, a multibillion-dollar plan that has the backing of the administrations of Democrats Comrade-Governor Jerry Brown and Comrade-President Obama, as well as the state's most powerful irrigation and urban water districts. . Delta landowners have refused to grant access to state crews doing preliminary soil testing for the project. They have demonstrated against the proposal in Sacramento, pitchforks in hand. They have organized a vocal coalition that has produced a documentary film - airing at public forums around the state - to drum up support for their cause.
The proposal calls for the construction of two 35-mile-long tunnels that would carry water underground from intakes on the Sacramento River a few miles north of here to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts.
Jerry Brown's insane Sacramento Delta Tunnel
The government pumping operations currently suck supplies entirely from the south delta, a practice that plays havoc with the tidal estuary's natural salinity and flow patterns, creating a hospitable environment for invasive plants and fish. So powerful are the pumps that they reverse the flow of some delta channels, confusing native fish and drawing them to their deaths. .
But delta farmers want none of it. They fear the restoration efforts will cost them portions of their land. They worry that their irrigation water will grow saltier, hurting crops, as fresh Sacramento River water that has always flowed through the delta is instead diverted beneath it.
Opponents, including a number of conservation groups, warn that migrating salmon will run afoul of the massive river intakes. They argue that the big tunnels will inevitably be used to send more water south, robbing the delta ecosystem of needed flows.
Kill the Canal The march to build a system to move massive amounts of water around the Delta continues. The goal is to build a peripheral canal (also referred to as a tunnel or conveyance) so that fresh water will be available to meet the seemingly never-ending needs of big agriculture and Southern California real estate interests.
"It's really taking away from one place and giving to another," said Baker, 28, a UC Davis graduate in fish and conservation biology who does related consulting work. .
Used to be, you could catch 20- to 30-pound fish in the slough that flows by his property and irrigates his 4,300 pear trees, Chuck Baker said. Tons of salmon migrated through the delta. "As they increased the pumping, the fish population went like this," he said, pointing downward.
He bristles at the notion that he might lose land along the slough to restoration efforts - intended to aid the recovery of imperiled fish - that would sustain or even increase water exports to the San Joaquin Valley.
"I'm not willing to sacrifice my land for somebody growing cotton in the desert," he declared, referring to a major crop grown in the Westlands Water District.
Just Say No to Democrat Delta Rape Democrat Jerry Brown wants to send millions of gallons of water from the beautiful Sacramento Delta to Central and Southern California to grow cotton and water Golf courses.
