{"id":1321,"date":"2009-07-03T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T20:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/03\/california-heading-for-violent-class-warfare\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:39:15","slug":"california-heading-for-violent-class-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1321\/california-heading-for-violent-class-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"California Heading for Violent Class Warfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGovernor Schwarzenegger is joined by California families
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By Gino Rambetes<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 3, 2009<\/p>\n

The photograph above came out of the governor’s press office and illustrates why California’s government and the state’s economy are in such a mess.<\/p>\n

First, one wonders how many taxpayer dollars were wasted to choreograph, shoot and distribute the photo.<\/p>\n

Second, and more important, the press release (see below) does nothing but continue a finger-pointing exercise. Like so much other drivel from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, it fails to mention what politicians in both “major” and some “minor” parties have long known and refuse to admit: that the budget crisis and economic disaster stem from the class warfare that started with California voters’ passage in 1978 of the property tax limitation initiative known as Proposition 13.<\/p>\n

Taxes per se are not evil nor harmful. They are absolutely necessary to fund vital public services — health care, education, aid to the needy, public-works projects, police and fire protection, etc. — and a taxation system that is properly constructed and fairly implemented can do just that.<\/p>\n

The politicians need to stop parroting the corporate lies, and to start telling and acting on the truth. Otherwise, within 10 years, the class war will erupt into violence that will make the urban riots of the 1960s look like tea socials. Sleep well.<\/p>\n

Gino Rembetes is a freelance writer based in San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n

Schwarzenegger’s <\/strong>Press Release <\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the legislature’s inability to pass a comprehensive solution to solve California’s entire $24.3 billion deficit, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today visited San Francisco to discuss the state’s budget crisis. Wednesday, the Governor proclaimed a fiscal emergency and called a Proposition 58 legislative special session to address this emergency. Additionally, the Governor exercised his executive authority to save cash for vital state functions and services by ordering three furlough days every month. Click here to read more. The following photo was taken at Governor Schwarzenegger’s field office in San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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