Over the weekend, we received an email complaining about something we must have written about Gov. Jerry Brown and his budgeting schenanigans. It came from someone who apparently has an iPhone and identifies himself as ”Jerry Brown.” Who knows?
Any way, the writer’s complaint with this writer was thus:
“Check out the massive budget reductions, government realignment, reorganization and solid pension reform. And don’t forget that the most affluent have taken 80% of the growth in income in recent years. And how about JP Morgan blowing $2 billion after lobbying against regs that would have protected its shareholders. Balance and more accurate reporting is needed here.”OK.
To which your faithful blogger, columnist and editorial writer (not knowing of which capacity the emailer complained) responded:
“Thanks so much for your thoughtful email.
“Unfortunately, ‘the massive budget reductions’ are difficult to believe while simultaneously calling for increased spending.
“As for government realignment and reorganization, that’s better known as passing the buck. Actually, it’s passing the bill without the bucks to pay it.
“And as for ‘solid pension reform,’ the state’s unfunded liabilities insure de facto bankruptcy that make this budget deficit pitifully small in comparison.
“The most affluent, incidentally, have taken income they earned. They didn’t steal it. It’s theirs. Not the government’s.
“And what does JP Morgan blowing $2 billion after lobbying against regs that would have protected its shareholders have to do with the state’s pitiful excuse for budgeting? Non sequitur.
“Thanks again for an opportunity to balance and accurately refute those common canards.”
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We love to get mail, don’t you?
By the way, have you seen Gov. Jerry Brown’s revision of that utter catastrophic budget he proposed last January? Here’s what we had to say about it today (yeah, it’s even more catastrophic):
“No way to fix a ‘fiscal disconnect’ - In his revised budget, Gov. Brown assumes voters will raise taxes and state-worker unions will agree to cut their own pay.”Move over Greece, here comes CA, on its bullet train economic abyss
