The Golden Canary in the Coal Mine

The City of Indio (Population 84,000) is one of two sanctuary cities in California’s Coachella Valley. The city is in a state of high discombobulation: high crime, menacing roads, higher than average per student costs and 13.6% unemployment.

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But this Southern California town is planning bold steps to right its ship of state: Indio’s next city manager isn’t going to be getting paid the $300,000 per year enjoyed by the outgoing city manager. To further show their commitment to fiscal responsibility, the city has resorted to draconian measures. After city officials racked up an $805,000 credit card bill, the city fathers took the audacious step of limiting each card carrying bureaucrat to a maximum of $5000 per month. That means each of them is now only allowed to spend $5000 per month of taxpayer funds. I daresay there are few families in Indio that earn $5000 per month. Nearby, Cathedral City residents are eager to vote themselves a sales tax increase. The measure will be on the June 8th ballot. If voters approve the measure, and it’s likely they will, the city’s sales tax will increase to 9.75. Cathedral City enjoys an unemployment rate of 12.6%. Moronic voters are falling for the traditional liberal extortion ploy. Failure to increase taxes will result, indubitably, in the mass firing of police officers and firefighters. Gimme more taxes or the fireman gets it! Are those really the only two options? Are there absolutely no useless inert bureaucrats who wouldn’t really be missed? Democrats also threaten us with massive teacher layoffs, but too many voters have figured out that being rid of incompetent liberal imbeciles wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Laugh all you want, but California is the canary in the coal mine for unleashed liberal delirium. There was a time when California was truly the Golden State. A few decades of nutty liberal policies and it’s about to become American’s first officially failed state. Thus, the Obama administration is using California as the prototype for how to wreck the rest of the county. California has been consumed by politicians who are owned and operated by unions as well as the deputization of unelected bureaucrats to usurp the job of the legislature. On a national level, the EPA is enacting annihilative policies with no debate and zero Constitutional authority. The Cap and Tax scheme will force the entire nation to live with California’s asinine building regulations. Don’t be too astonished when you have to provide a Feng Shui certification before you can sell your house. During every California election cycle, local ballot initiatives appear written in incomprehensible euphemistic language, seeking to bleed yet more money from the hapless taxpayers, “for the schools.” We already spend obscene amount of money on the schools, yet our kids rank among the stupidest in the country. They have to be kept stupid—otherwise when they grow up they might refuse to vote to increase their own sales taxes. The teachers’ unions don’t mind the stupidity. What they are ashamed of is that California is not throwing enough cash at their failing reeducation camps. The only subject California kids are really taught about is the Global Warming hoax. The rest of their remarkably short school day is spent learning Ayers-based social justice crap. Last inauguration day, a call only liberals can hear went out—sort of an a ally ally oxen free. The Left was suddenly liberated. No longer do they need they pretend to be sane. Freed from this burden, they have been emboldened to openly expound on their nonsensical and dangerous policies. California Democrats are celebrating their new freedom to be unhinged by offering up Linda Ronstadt’s ex boyfriend for another whack at the governorship. Jerry Moonbeam Brown already was governor in the 1970’s and he was a disaster. Republican rival, Meg Whitman chronicles Moonbat’s many failures including hiking taxes on the cash strapped residents of Oakland. Brown currently holds the post of state Attorney General. His biggest accomplishment to date was his refusal to prosecute ACORN workers who were exposed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. Arnold requested that Brown’s office investigate ACORN. On April 2d of this year, the AG announced that “no laws were broken” which is code for: I’m running for governor. This is precisely why the Democrat party establishment will get behind the Moonbat. He is obedient and not terribly bright. Like the rest of the productive taxpayers in the Tarnished State, we will be relocating later this year to a red state. I just want to stay here long enough to vote against Barbara Boxer one more time.