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How Jerry Brown Turned $6B State Surplus into $1Billion DeficitWhen Jerry Brown Was Governor, The State Had A $6 Billion Budget Surplus, Yet When He Left Office California Had A $1 Billion Deficit. Under His Administration, Spending Doubled:
The LA Times George Skelton Reported That Brown Had A $6 Billion Surplus. "Brown only had to shovel out money. The state was sitting on a $6-billion surplus, which state Treasurer Jesse Unruh called obscene." (George Skelton, Op-Ed, "Schwarzenegger: A New Brown," Los Angeles Times, 5/25/09)
* NOTE: Brown Said He Had A $6 Billion Surplus As Governor. Brown: "By the way, on that property tax in California. It was passed by popular initiative. And we had not a $ 3 billion but a $6 billion surplus that enabled us to bail-out local schools, local government, and make that two-thirds reduction in property taxes actually work for the remainder of my eight years in office." (CNNs "Larry King Live," 3/25/92, 20:25-20:45)
But When He Left The Governors Office, The State Budget Deficit Was Over $1 Billion. "[In 1982,] The budget surplus had evaporated into a deficit of more than $1 billion and the state's general fund reserve had fallen from nearly $2 billion to zero. The unemployment rate, worsened by a national recession, had risen to a record high of 9.9 percent." (Jane Gross with Katherine Bishop, "The 1992 Campaign: Candidate's Record," The New York Times, 4/5/92)
Brown Left California With A "Full-Blown Financial Crisis." "By 1983, when George Deukmejian replaced Brown in the governorship, California had a full-blown financial crisis on its hands. There was a billion-dollar-plus hole in the state budget, no reserves to cover it and the state's bond rating slipped a notch to AA-plus." (Dan Walters, "Big Bond Fight Reaches Ballot," Sacramento Bee, 10/15/84)
Brown Left California "Flat Broke And Flirting With Bankruptcy." "Brown had been so preoccupied with advancing himself politically, running twice for the presidency and once for the U.S. Senate, that he neglected his job. He left the state flat broke and flirting with bankruptcy and Deukmejian's first job was to deal with the crisis." (Dan Walters, "Deukmejian At Midterm," Sacramento Bee, 1/3/85)
As Governor, "Brown Abdicated Fiscal Responsibilities." "During the latter years of his governorship, Jerry Brown faced a huge fiscal crisis, with expenditures running well in excess of revenues each year. But because of a preoccupation with his endless campaigns, Brown abdicated fiscal responsibilities to a Legislature which already had demonstrated its inability to throttle back." (Dan Walters, "Duke Relaxes On Spending," Sacramento Bee, 10/10/85)
* "By the time Brown's reign ended in 1983, therefore, the state was more than a billion dollars in the red, a crisis inherited by successor George Deukmejian." (Dan Walters, "Duke Relaxes On Spending," Sacramento Bee, 10/10/85)
Jerry Brown has a great fiscal record.
Prop 13 fucked the whole budget for decades
Jerry Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upon taking office, Brown gained a reputation as a fiscal conservative.[10][11] The American Conservative later noted he was "much more of a fiscal conservative than Governor Reagan."[11] His fiscal restraint resulted in one of the biggest budget surpluses in state history, roughly $5 billion.[11][12][13] For his personal life, Brown refused many of the privileges and perks of the office, forgoing the newly constructed governor's residence and instead renting a modest apartment at the corner of 14th and N Streets, adjacent to Capitol Park in downtown Sacramento.[14] Instead of riding as a passenger in a chauffeured limousine as previous governors had done, Brown drove to work in a Plymouth Satellite sedan.[15][16]
Im a Californian and it honestly didnt matter who was gonna be governor, Brown or Whitman, the
re wasnt a good choice. Whitman was an idiot and had no government experience. She also buried herself with the whole illegal housekeeper scandal and forgetting to vote all those year. she also dug a deeper hole when it came out that she laid off thousands of workers at Ebay and gave herself a huge bonus. Brown caused a lot of the problems that we are now experiencing, but he had experience and was the democrat. after 8 years of a republican, i think we wanted to democrat again. thats where to vote stood. Brown won a huge majority of the vote, not necessarily because he was the best candidate, but in order to keep Whitman out of the governors mansion.
Nice to have Governor Moonbeam back, yet again.
If he's lucky about half the state will drop off into the sea before it goes fiscally belly up.
Nice to have Governor Moonbeam back, yet again.
If he's lucky about half the state will drop off into the sea before it goes fiscally belly up.Please!
Any 20-something....with a sense of self-respect, enthusiasm & pioneering....will pack their bags, and.....get ready to SPLIT, FOR THE WEST-COAST!!!!!!!
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you idiots out there who want to see CA go bankrupt have no clue how the economy works. if california defaults on all of its obligations is will have a catastrophic affect on the entire country. business in states another that do business with California will be affected, people living on CA pension across the country will be affected, the fed will have to seize control and bail them out. public services will cease, thousands of people will be without a job.
what good would it do having any state go bankrupt? is it just so you can come rant on here and say "told you so!" to everyone who has ever disagreed with you?
way to root for failure, cause thats the american way.
Im a Californian and it honestly didnt matter who was gonna be governor, Brown or Whitman, the
re wasnt a good choice. Whitman was an idiot and had no government experience. She also buried herself with the whole illegal housekeeper scandal and forgetting to vote all those year. she also dug a deeper hole when it came out that she laid off thousands of workers at Ebay and gave herself a huge bonus. Brown caused a lot of the problems that we are now experiencing, but he had experience and was the democrat. after 8 years of a republican, i think we wanted to democrat again. thats where to vote stood. Brown won a huge majority of the vote, not necessarily because he was the best candidate, but in order to keep Whitman out of the governors mansion.
Then they'll have to get their financial affairs in order and admit that they've over-promised, especially to the bureaucrat unions.what good would it do having any state go bankrupt?
Im a Californian and it honestly didnt matter who was gonna be governor, Brown or Whitman, the
re wasnt a good choice. Whitman was an idiot and had no government experience. She also buried herself with the whole illegal housekeeper scandal and forgetting to vote all those year. she also dug a deeper hole when it came out that she laid off thousands of workers at Ebay and gave herself a huge bonus. Brown caused a lot of the problems that we are now experiencing, but he had experience and was the democrat. after 8 years of a republican, i think we wanted to democrat again. thats where to vote stood. Brown won a huge majority of the vote, not necessarily because he was the best candidate, but in order to keep Whitman out of the governors mansion.
You don't need government experience to run a state - you need business sense. And that Whitman had. And, as for that ridiculous crap about the illegal housekeeper, that was just shit created by the left wing media to discredit her - she did nothing wrong. If you would exercise 'Common Sense' instead of just using it as a snappy screenname, perhaps you would be more intelligent.
Brown is a fool. He was a fool last time and he will be a fool this time. However, generally speaking, Californians are not very smart.