"Temporary" Tax "Extensions"?

Jerry Brown is exhorting Californians to vote to additionally tax themselves and help him "solve" California's budget problems.  He and his cronies are attempting to paint those of us that oppose this further destruction of California's ability to attract new business and improve the lives of her citizens by declaring that they are not "allowing" the taxpayers to have their say in a vote on the issue.

How dare anybody stand in the way of the citizens getting a chance to vote!!!

Why should we NOT vote on this absurdity from Jerry Brown and his union bosses?

Nevermind the fact that we already voted on this issue and shot the lefties down two to one.

Nevermind the fact that None of what Gov.Brown is proposing establishes Any fixes for Any of the budget problems we are faced with here in California.

Nevermind the fact that Jerry's "balanced approach" demands Five years of higher taxes (55 billion dollars worth) while offering one 1 year of budget "cuts".  A third of those cuts are only reshuffling monies already collected.  None of the cuts are permanent, structural cuts.

Jerry will be back next year with the same cries of dire peril and demands for more tax money to feed the public employee unions' ravenous maws.

If this gets on the ballot, Jerry's bosses, the public employee unions, will spend untold millions to tug at every heart-string, highlight every fallacious negative, and put the fear of god into the voters that without the higher taxes, all of California will become a hell hole of uncontrolled fires, destruction, and crime waves.

(He's already started with the fear mongering by cutting programs for mentally disabled school children and claiming that without those higher taxes he will have to further defund programs for the neediest among us.)

And, where will all that money Jerry wants go?

Straight out of the wallets of the taxpayers and into the pockets of the public employee unions.

Anybody paying attention knows public employee union members are already over-paid and over-endowed with platinum retirement and benefits packages that Nobody in the private sector can compete with.

Just One example?

The California Correctional Peace Officers Assn. (one of the largest and most politically powerful state-employee unions) gets Both a defined benefit retirement plan And a 401k plan.

How did they get that amazing boon?  Collective bargaining with democrats they pay off to get their say over the objections of informed taxpayers.

Must be nice huh?

The game is fixed and the power hungry public employee unions with their corrupt democrat allies are taking us all to the cleaners.

We do Not need to vote on new taxes as Jerry is trying to scare us into with his lies.

He needs to get a set and tell his bosses in the unions "No" and then guide the democrats into solving California's budget problems without all the bandaids and fake fixes.

Democracy

When you and I think of democracy we think along the lines of the classic dictionary definition.

Per the Oxford dictionary...

Democracy(de·moc·ra·cy)

Pronunciation:/di'mäkr?se, /

noun (plural democracies)

A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state , typically through elected representatives:

-Usage example: capitalism and democracy are ascendant in the third world

A state governed by a democracy:

-Usage example: a multiparty democracy

Control of an organization or group by the majority of its members:

-Usage example: the intended extension of industrial democracy

But, since before we vanquished our external enemies and beat the USSR in the cold war, the left has been on a long term mission to coopt our language for their own purposes and destroy us from within.

While democracy has always been meant to be one man, one vote, the left uses the word democracy as a cudgel to knock back any resistance to their advances against freedom. The Oxford dictionary reflects this cynical infection manifesting within our political discourse by adding...

The practice or principles of social equality:

-Usage example: demands for greater democracy

In other words, when the left, especially unions and union activists, cry "Democracy!" and dare you to challenge them in their righteous fight for "rights", they are hiding from you their true intentions.

Just like when the Russians claimed to want "detente", and the media told us they meant "peaceful co-existence", the Russians were happy to let us believe that meant we go our own way and they would leave us be. In actuality, they meant we would have peace after they had conquered us.

Just like Muslims screaming out "Allahu Akbar" before raging into battle, they are happy to let the masses of us believe they are only beatifically saying "god is great". In actuality they are angrily exclaiming that Their god is Greatest and superior to your god.

When the left cries out for democracy, they are not advocating for our hallowed principle of one man, one vote. They are demanding social equality where no person has more than another, where no person can strive to improve their lot in life, where no man stands out from his fellow man in any way.

Well, all except for the leadership of the left. The union bosses will maintain their lavish lifestyles with salaries an order of magnitude or more than the "worker".

Democracy is just one word the left is coopting and converting to a euphemism that has wholely different meaning than what we have traditionally known it to be. The next time you watch another rabid unionista rally and you hear them shout out some tripe about "rights" know that they do not mean rights as Americans grew up knowing them. For example...

Unionized public employees buying off democrat legislators with union dues in order to get more salary and benefits, including union dues, (wash, rinse, repeat) is not a "right". It's corruption and a fatal, unsustainable abuse of our democratic process. And who pays for all that greed, depravity, and fraud?

You, the taxpayer.

Redefining our language is a major tool socialists use to beat us back from daring to challenge them in their advance against us as we try to defend Freedom.

Do not be decieved or lulled into inaction, the left is coming for you and your freedoms. It's past time to inform and arm ourselves with the knowledge of the left's true intentions. Not doing so allows the left to run roughshod over us and they have nobody's best interests at heart but their own.

It's time to stand up and irrevocably tell these socialist thugs and their mentally bankrupt converts, "No, we are not fooled by you and you shall take no more from us."