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WA6MHZ
01-18-2009, 03:42 AM
Everyone knows California is broke and the Senate is at an impass with Ahnold. He demands pork cuts, and they won't budge an inch. They want to keep their special projects, like the study on whether HAPPY COWS really do produce better tasting milk. All the people expecting Tax Refunds have been told they will get IOUs now instead. Ahnold was perplexed. There just must be SOME way to get the money. He pondered it as he drove home on the freeway that night, and noticed everyone going 75 and 80.
"HMMMM, I haave an IDEA!!!!!"

The next morning, the CHP (California Highway Patrol) commissioner was summoned to Ahnolds office.
"Here is the deal...." The Governator spoke
"I want you to TICKET every motorist going over 70 on all the state Freeways!"
The Commissioner was SHOCKED!!
"But Governator, even our Squad cars don't go that slow!!!!!!"
Ahnold pounded his fist on the desk in anger.
"DO IT!!!!!!!!!!! Or I will find someone who will!!!!"

Today was the Chino Hills Swapmeet, up near Riverside, and it is about 120 miles away. I got up at 3AM as I knew it started LONG before the advertised start time of 6:30 AM. I might miss something RARE!!
As I whizzed down the freeway, I noticed a lot of Bear.
"That's STRANGE! Most Bear are still snoozing this time in the morning!!"

I arrived without a problem, and had a good time, but failed to find any treasures. RATS!!! So it was time to head on back.

The I-15 looked like normal traffic, but I soon saw it was bunching up. WHY? It was soon evident. There were Smokey Bears everywhere. Black and White cars, Stealth all white cars and loads of Motorcycle riding Bear!
Most had caught their prey and were devouring the motorists Wallet, so I had to slow down from my usual 85 MPH to around 82. I kept a constant lookout on what was coming up from behind, and what was going on on the Freeway on ramps.

As I neared Temecula, I suddenly SAW a bear moving up in the pack behind me. I JERKED the wheel to the right and took the off ramp. Once at the bottom of the hill, I waited through the light and then proceeded up the on ramp. There, not far down the road, was that BEAR, Sinking his teeth into some TERRORIZED, Tear ridden motorist in a Toyota!!! He must have been doing 72!!!!

Besides Bear, the Freeway was littered with pairs of cars involved in accidents. One motorist, upon seeing Mister Smokey, slammed on his brakes and the car behind him piled into him. Tow Trucks were doing a BANNER DAY today!

Sweating and drained, I made it back to El Cajon unscathed, but then I was required to make a trip up the I-5 to Carlsbad a little bit later. Lot of gas being used today!

The situation was the same on the I-5. More Bear, lots of crashes, motorists were in a frenzy like they had just tried to cross a river full of bloodthirsty PIRANAH!!!!

PHEW!!!!!!! Not safe to drive! Maybe I ought to take the city streets!

..........................

The following Tuesday, the CHP Commissioner burst in to Ahnolds office sporting a full wheelbarrow of money. HE was smiling EAR TO EAR!!!
"Here is this weekend's TAKE, Governator!"
The Governators Eyes lit up and he began to laugh!
"YOU DID IT!!! You really did!!!!!!!!!"

He rushed over and sunk his hands into the pile of money and tossed it into the air. The two danced around the room for quite some time singing a poor version of "WE ARE IN THE MONEY!!!!!!!"

After the Commissioner left, Ahnold dialed up the Attorney General.
"You know that budget Crisis?.........."
Ahnold continued to laugh.
"NOTTA PROBLEM ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!"

Wonder what the freeway will be like tomorrow?

N7WR
01-18-2009, 03:51 AM
What a bunch of BS. If every police agency in CA wrote every ticket they could find to write CA's budget crisis wouldn't be close to over. CA's budget has increased 8 billion dollars in the last year. Income is down so let's drive expenses up. The CA legislature, like that of my state and many others, is CLUELESS. Want to balance CA's budget? Simple. Get rid of illegal immigrants for whom the government provides: health care, education, food stamps, prison space, etc etc. You will then have a balanced budget because the annual costs of providing just those things to illegals exceeds CA's budget defecit. Just one of the many reasons I don't live in CA anymore or will ever again if I can help it. The only problem is that I am a CAL PERS (state retirement) retiree and the gobernator is trying to rob the state retirement fund to pay HIS defecit.

N7RJD
01-18-2009, 04:00 AM
Colorado likes to park one on an overpass over the interstate with a number of them lined up down the on ramp. Of course if you are coming in the direction they are lined up you can't see any of them until it's too late. These projects are normally one or two training officers and a handful of trainees. No discount on tickets if written by a rookie, quite the opposite, they are setting these up at the near end of construction zones where fines are doubled for speeding.

WA6MHZ
01-18-2009, 04:40 AM
What a bunch of BS. If every police agency in CA wrote every ticket they could find to write CA's budget crisis wouldn't be close to over. CA's budget has increased 8 billion dollars in the last year. Income is down so let's drive expenses up. The CA legislature, like that of my state and many others, is CLUELESS. Want to balance CA's budget? Simple. Get rid of illegal immigrants for whom the government provides: health care, education, food stamps, prison space, etc etc. You will then have a balanced budget because the annual costs of providing just those things to illegals exceeds CA's budget defecit. Just one of the many reasons I don't live in CA anymore or will ever again if I can help it. The only problem is that I am a CAL PERS (state retirement) retiree and the gobernator is trying to rob the state retirement fund to pay HIS defecit.

Sorry, Jerry
Just trying to add a little Levity to a dismal situation. You are dead on right about the illegal situation. But they are the biggest voting block now, so it will never fly. This is now MEXIFORNIA!

N7WR
01-18-2009, 04:51 AM
Hi Pat
Yeh I knew you were kidding. Pity is you are absolutely correct....and there really is no solution given the voting block which exists in your state. A far far different place from where I grew up and lived/worked most of my life. Sad

AC4BB
01-18-2009, 08:37 AM
Maybeee, He could get part of the Federal "Baleouttt.?"

K8ERV
01-18-2009, 02:19 PM
What's a "California"?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

W4HAY
01-18-2009, 03:35 PM
To quote several friends who worked at our LA plant: "Anybody dumb enough to live in California deserves what they get!" Their favorite after-hours topic of conversation was where to retire to. It wasn't Kalifornia.

WF7A
01-18-2009, 03:38 PM
What's a "California"?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

Sorry, I'll translate for Ah-nold speak: "Cah-lee-for-nee-ah."

Think about it, though: How much is the average, over-70 m/h speeding ticket in CA nowadays? $100? Multiply that by 1,000 vehicles statewide per day and that's $100K...x 365 (for a year): $36.5 M. Hardly enough to balance a budget, but the action of ticketing/citing citizens for breaking laws with fines is catching on all around the country to help make ends meet. You have to admit: it's a no-brainer enforcing laws already on the books!

N7RJD
01-18-2009, 04:06 PM
What's a "California"?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

It's a government run nuthouse.

K7UTA
01-18-2009, 04:55 PM
I agree with doing something about the illegal situation, but they wont.
Enforcing the laws would be great if the politicians had the backbone to do it.
But, IMHO, they dont.
Another thing they never consider is when the budget is in the mess its in, why is it that one of the first items they consider cutting back on is education?
Why cant the legislators consider cutting their overinflated saleries instead of making the working Joe or Jane take the blunt of their inepness to resolve the financial matters?
Like I said in the begining this is JMHO.

KD5ZPG
01-18-2009, 05:42 PM
California is a microcosm of what the dems want to do with the rest of the country.

Lax emigration policies, high taxes, socialized everything......its no wonder people and business are leaving that sinking ship.


KD5ZPG

WA6MHZ
01-18-2009, 06:05 PM
I might want to leave, but I have yet to find a BETTER climate anywhere in the whole WORLD!!!!!!!!!

W5HTW
01-18-2009, 06:25 PM
What's a "California"?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

It is a Mexico clone, another foreign country bordering the USA, but they have not been able to set up proper border checkpoints for some reason.

K9STH
01-18-2009, 06:41 PM
RJD:

You got it backwards! It is a nuthouse run government.

Glen, K9STH

W4HAY
01-19-2009, 04:02 PM
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a State of the State address last Thursday, correctly pointed to the need to focus on "fundamentals" in crafting a balanced budget. But like the Big Three automakers in Detroit, many in Sacramento and other state capitals seem to be waiting instead for a federal bailout...

...After replacing tax-and-spend Gray Davis with borrow-and-spend Schwarzenegger at the governor's mansion in 2003, and after issuing numerous bonds, the state is saddled with a budget of $144.4 billion and the deficit is projected to rise to $42 billion...

...Some people do not diet and exercise until after they have a heart attack. Despite our best attempts to deny it, the current budget and economic difficulty are the heart attack we hoped wouldn't come. Indeed, the budget gave state Controller John Chiang a heart attack this month.

The measures it will take to revive California may not permit pet government programs and entitlements to continue. It is time for serious diet and exercise — not just cosmetic liposuction...

... Although many California officials are hoping for Washington's latest bridge loan to nowhere, more serious restructuring and downsizing may be necessary.

California Should Focus On Fundamentals (http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=317002639801381)

AF6LJ
01-19-2009, 04:13 PM
What's a "California"?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

He misspelled it;
It's Kalifornia, pronounced (Kal-E-Forn-Ya)

The City of SanDiego just put in four new red light cameras.

The first violation is $400.00+
That's called being Kalifornicated.

I am still plotting my escape from
The People's Republic of Kalifornia.

WA6MHZ
01-19-2009, 04:14 PM
That's because so large a chunk of the population is on WELFARE, and they are VOTERs!!! The legislators can't let down their constituents or they will be voted out of office (which they should!) But, anyone who campaigns for Welfare reform, and ousting illegal aliens, HASN'T A PRAYER of being elected, and will most likey face TAR and FEATHERING!!!!!!!!!

K8ERV
01-19-2009, 07:37 PM
It's a government run nuthouse.

A LOT of that going around. I thot Ca was supposed to be unique.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

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