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	<title>Comments on: Closing the CA State Parks:  3 Reasons Why It Won&#8217;t Happen</title>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/environment/2009/admin/closing-the-ca-state-parks-why-it-wont-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-161666</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The biggest crybaby on the forum so far is the know-nothing liberal, Woody
Ive always thought they were brainless-he proves it</description>
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Ive always thought they were brainless-he proves it</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tell everyone to pull the plug on California. Sell all bonds related to California including corporate and municipal bonds. Don&#039;t take a chance with your hard earned money.  Why would anyone in their right mind lend money to a state that is bankrupt.  You would be better off lending to your unemyployed relatives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tell everyone to pull the plug on California. Sell all bonds related to California including corporate and municipal bonds. Don&#8217;t take a chance with your hard earned money.  Why would anyone in their right mind lend money to a state that is bankrupt.  You would be better off lending to your unemyployed relatives.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>California needs to balance its buget just like I do.  I have to live within my means no matter how meager.  No one can bail out California except for California.  There will be much weaping, wailing, and knashing of teeth. Start by cutting the polititions.  Give them IOU&#039;s for their next paychecks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>California needs to balance its buget just like I do.  I have to live within my means no matter how meager.  No one can bail out California except for California.  There will be much weaping, wailing, and knashing of teeth. Start by cutting the polititions.  Give them IOU&#8217;s for their next paychecks.</p>
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		<title>By: hikertom</title>
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		<dc:creator>hikertom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most of the state park land was either donated to the state or purchased with money donated for the purpose of purchasing park land that will be open to the public. Selling this land is not an option. Besides, the total operating cost of our state parks is way under one tenth of one percent of the budget deficit. Closing our state parks will have no noticeable impact on the budget crisis. 

Much of the maintenance work done in the state parks is performed by 13,000+ vulunteers, who repair historic structures, maintain trails, and perform interpretive functions. It is an outrage that state parks are one of the few departments being zeroed out of the budget. Everyone who loves and uses our parks needs to contact their state senator and assembly person and demand that all of the parks be kept open. State parks are not a luxury! They are as important as any other governmental funchtion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of the state park land was either donated to the state or purchased with money donated for the purpose of purchasing park land that will be open to the public. Selling this land is not an option. Besides, the total operating cost of our state parks is way under one tenth of one percent of the budget deficit. Closing our state parks will have no noticeable impact on the budget crisis. </p>
<p>Much of the maintenance work done in the state parks is performed by 13,000+ vulunteers, who repair historic structures, maintain trails, and perform interpretive functions. It is an outrage that state parks are one of the few departments being zeroed out of the budget. Everyone who loves and uses our parks needs to contact their state senator and assembly person and demand that all of the parks be kept open. State parks are not a luxury! They are as important as any other governmental funchtion.</p>
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		<title>By: The Real Gava Joe</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Real Gava Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK So if the issue is &quot;selling&quot; off State and Govt&#039; owned properties? Why not sell substantial parcels to the Mexican cartels who keep shoving innocent Mexican citizens up here to clandestinely grow marijuana on private land? Then the State could relax the marijuana laws even more and tax the shit out of these invaders, get us out of bankruptcy and maybe force the cartels to clean up their environmental messes. The saying goes:&quot; As goes CA so goes the Nation &quot;.
An unorthadox, yet rational legislative move like this may serve to legalize marijuana on a National scale, lessen the bloodshed on our border, empty the prisons of non-violent criminals thereby loosening the grip of the huge Prison/Industrial complex and the fat Correctional Officer&#039;s Union, and free up funds for social programs. This State, this Country has been mired in an outdated mindset that has only served to increase the coffers of repressive institutions. Legalize Pot!! There&#039;s a &quot;change&quot; I&#039;d vote for.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK So if the issue is &#8220;selling&#8221; off State and Govt&#8217; owned properties? Why not sell substantial parcels to the Mexican cartels who keep shoving innocent Mexican citizens up here to clandestinely grow marijuana on private land? Then the State could relax the marijuana laws even more and tax the shit out of these invaders, get us out of bankruptcy and maybe force the cartels to clean up their environmental messes. The saying goes:&#8221; As goes CA so goes the Nation &#8220;.<br />
An unorthadox, yet rational legislative move like this may serve to legalize marijuana on a National scale, lessen the bloodshed on our border, empty the prisons of non-violent criminals thereby loosening the grip of the huge Prison/Industrial complex and the fat Correctional Officer&#8217;s Union, and free up funds for social programs. This State, this Country has been mired in an outdated mindset that has only served to increase the coffers of repressive institutions. Legalize Pot!! There&#8217;s a &#8220;change&#8221; I&#8217;d vote for.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A worth-repeating comment someone else made on another site....

&lt;blockquote&gt;It just occurred to me to wonder if Obama has appointed a park Czar. I’m thinking that they will seize everything they can during this crisis and transfer ownership to the group of bankers that own Obama. Then we will see it all sub-divided and sold back to either the state or the people at a handsome profit. I’m sure Barry will come on TV and assure us that he does not want to be in the park business and wants the government out as soon as possible. Of course that is shorthand for getting out as soon as they rape the taxpayers (the real owners of the parks) out of as much profit as possible.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A worth-repeating comment someone else made on another site&#8230;.</p>
<blockquote><p>It just occurred to me to wonder if Obama has appointed a park Czar. I’m thinking that they will seize everything they can during this crisis and transfer ownership to the group of bankers that own Obama. Then we will see it all sub-divided and sold back to either the state or the people at a handsome profit. I’m sure Barry will come on TV and assure us that he does not want to be in the park business and wants the government out as soon as possible. Of course that is shorthand for getting out as soon as they rape the taxpayers (the real owners of the parks) out of as much profit as possible.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Pokey</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/environment/2009/admin/closing-the-ca-state-parks-why-it-wont-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-158366</link>
		<dc:creator>Pokey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please ignore the text after the link above to the SacBee.</description>
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		<title>By: Pokey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pokey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;California’s biggest budget problem is Third World immigrants with lots of children. &lt;/b&gt;

The left’s loonies with no common sense will just call this right-wing-rhetoric, and discount the facts completely without even looking.   

Even the liberal Sac Bee admits that at a minimum that California currently spends $5 billion per year in providing services to illegal aliens, while other studies that look deeper show over $10 billion in costs per year, more than 50 times the cost of maintaining the parks.

CA Budget:
40% k-12
30% Health and Welfare
10% Prisons 
&lt;b&gt;80%&lt;/b&gt; Of CA expenditures are directly related to population numbers

Illegal immigrants make up about 10% of the CA residents (3.3-million of 34 million), costing at least 8% of the entire budget,  but because of their economic status and numerous children use more than then their numerical share of health, welfare, prisons and schools doubling the estimated cost closer to 16% of all money spent by the state.  On the revenue side this same 10% only contributes less than 5%, leaving a huge hole in our state budget. 


Additionally, Liberals also often don’t count the legal children of illegal’s, who fill schools, emergency rooms, welfare offices and prisons with non-English speaking U.S. citizens as well sending the above numbers even higher.

On top of the budget impact these 3.3 million illegal immigrants have taken jobs that Californians desperately need in this economic depression, which will likely extend for years to come.


http://www.sacbee.com/740/story/1962163.html

   



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 the cost of illegal’s
But, before looking at any nu it doesn’t take a roc
--- One out of Eight California residents being here illegally ---
Consider the following:
illegals pay, and many of these</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>California’s biggest budget problem is Third World immigrants with lots of children. </b></p>
<p>The left’s loonies with no common sense will just call this right-wing-rhetoric, and discount the facts completely without even looking.   </p>
<p>Even the liberal Sac Bee admits that at a minimum that California currently spends $5 billion per year in providing services to illegal aliens, while other studies that look deeper show over $10 billion in costs per year, more than 50 times the cost of maintaining the parks.</p>
<p>CA Budget:<br />
40% k-12<br />
30% Health and Welfare<br />
10% Prisons<br />
<b>80%</b> Of CA expenditures are directly related to population numbers</p>
<p>Illegal immigrants make up about 10% of the CA residents (3.3-million of 34 million), costing at least 8% of the entire budget,  but because of their economic status and numerous children use more than then their numerical share of health, welfare, prisons and schools doubling the estimated cost closer to 16% of all money spent by the state.  On the revenue side this same 10% only contributes less than 5%, leaving a huge hole in our state budget. </p>
<p>Additionally, Liberals also often don’t count the legal children of illegal’s, who fill schools, emergency rooms, welfare offices and prisons with non-English speaking U.S. citizens as well sending the above numbers even higher.</p>
<p>On top of the budget impact these 3.3 million illegal immigrants have taken jobs that Californians desperately need in this economic depression, which will likely extend for years to come.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/740/story/1962163.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sacbee.com/740/story/1962163.html</a></p>
<p>ihttp://www.sacbee.com/740/story/1962163.html<br />
While at </p>
<p> the cost of illegal’s<br />
But, before looking at any nu it doesn’t take a roc<br />
&#8212; One out of Eight California residents being here illegally &#8212;<br />
Consider the following:<br />
illegals pay, and many of these</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kevin, let me put solutions for California is terms that you might understand.  &lt;i&gt;Until you learn to grow up and act responsibly, you&#039;re grounded and your allowance is cut off.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kevin, let me put solutions for California is terms that you might understand.  <i>Until you learn to grow up and act responsibly, you&#8217;re grounded and your allowance is cut off.</i></p>
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		<title>By: Kevin</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/environment/2009/admin/closing-the-ca-state-parks-why-it-wont-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-158340</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can only sell a piece of land once.  Selling off State land won&#039;t solve anything, it will just push the problem out into the future a slight amount.

I don&#039;t think Woody actually wants California to solve any of its problems.  He doesn&#039;t even live in the state, and thus doesn&#039;t have to live with the consequences of any of this, which makes it easy for him to offer his ludicrous commentary here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can only sell a piece of land once.  Selling off State land won&#8217;t solve anything, it will just push the problem out into the future a slight amount.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Woody actually wants California to solve any of its problems.  He doesn&#8217;t even live in the state, and thus doesn&#8217;t have to live with the consequences of any of this, which makes it easy for him to offer his ludicrous commentary here.</p>
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