OT: What's $1.9B Amongst Californica Friends...
Bwahahahahaha >:-} ...Jim Thompson
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Our math errors are bigger than the entire economy of Arizona.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Considering it is 1% of the California total budget ($171B), that ends up looking pretty much like a rounding error.
Arizona's budget is around $9.5B and your shortfall for 2016 is around $1B which is 10% of the budget...
How does that feel?
John
Indeed ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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That'll be changing with the "guard" >:-} ...Jim Thompson
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Where do you get your information... National Enquirer?
I'm not certain, but I believe Arizona law forbids deficit sending.
Californica's population is just shy of 6X that of Arizona.
Californica's budget is 18X that of Arizona... why is that? Democrat foolery?
How does that feel ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson
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He said 2016.
Looks like 10% is about right.
It's richer.
Similarly I imagine Arizona's per-capita budget is bigger than that of Mali.
-- John Devereux
Now that Trump is President we'll just toss most of our welfare recipients back to Mexico ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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"It's richer"... must be why Californica's highway system is in such terrible condition and Arizona's is rather nice and expanding rapidly to boot. ...Jim Thompson
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Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson believes that Trump will deliver on his campaign promises, not having noticed that a lot of them were self-contradictory.
Most of the Mexican welfare recipients will turn out to be working - off the books - as cheap maids in Trump hotels. They aren't going to be sent back any time soon.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
From a distance it looks like Trump's businesses cater (literally) to rich "elite" customers, not to the unwashed masses.
Would such customers notice if he raised his rates sufficiently to pay his maids a decent living wage?
Trump doesn't seem to be any more of a caring employer than the others. Why wouldn't he just put that money in his own pocket? There is always a price point for the maximum profit. Why charge any less?
-- Rick C
Put "Physician heal thyself", "Charity begins at home" together with "I will fight for you with every breath in my body - and I will never, ever let you down.",
and how could he /possibly/ not pay his workers a decent living wage?
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The problem is that even his biographer notes that he is a serial liar.
Putting it another way, a lot of the television coverage during the electio n campaign featured two images of Trump saying rather different things to d ifferent audiences.
What may stop Trump from doing any serious damage to the US is that he does n't seem to be able to form a coherent plan and stick to it. He always come s a up with a passable answer to any particular question, but it isn't ofte n an answer that's entirely compatible with the answer he came up with the last time he was asked that question.
This seems to have worked better than it should have as tactic for getting elected, but it's not a technique adapted to getting something done.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
California's highways get used, and wear out. Arizona's highways are used by fewer people, and mostly to get to someplace more hospitable.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Well, yes ;}
It seems you are saying that the frequency content in his responses is much higher than the government system's frequency response, so that his "content" will be smoothed out.
Possible, but a pretty desperate hope. Dangerous if those around him (especially all the Goldman Sachs alumni and the billionaires swamp) simply ignore him and do what they want, or if his smoothed value is too far in a dangerous direction.
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ction campaign featured two images of Trump saying rather different things to different audiences.
doesn't seem to be able to form a coherent plan and stick to it. He always comes a up with a passable answer to any particular question, but it isn't often an answer that's entirely compatible with the answer he came up with the last time he was asked that question.
ing elected, but it's not a technique adapted to getting something done.
Not so much smoothed out as treated as random noise. Government isn't a low pass filter, but rather a mechanism for getting things done. Prod it too f requently and it will armour-plate itself and hunker down in the do-nothing mode.
They are all different loose cannons, and will probably want different thin gs. Without some sort of coherent leadership, they will spend most of their time getting in one another's way.
I'm reminded of an episode in Dutch politics
Pim Fortuyn was a charismatic leader, but totally incapable of getting on w ith other people (which may sound paradoxical, but fits the facts). His cob bled-together party could not work together when it got into government in
2002, and their squabbling got so bad that new elections had to be held les s than a year later, and most of them lost their seats.Sadly, the US hasn't got mechanism for throwing out a duff president and a duff executive he may have cobbled together. Trump may be silly enough to g et himself impeached and thrown out, but his executive does seem to have mo re experience, and could sit there for four years tripping up on another an d the rest of the country.
Change your mind too often, and nobody takes you seriously.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
You have obviously never been on I-10 west of Phoenix!
Bill Slowman, j*rk-off-of-all-trades, master-only-of-ignorance, probably hasn't been on a Californica highway in decades.
I can remember when Californica highways were works of art with gorgeous, well-maintained landscaping. Now they are mostly dried up weeds.
Bill Slowman, j*rk-off-of-all-trades, master-only-of-ignorance, doesn't even know that I10, I8 and I40 (nee US66) thru Arizona are _the_ major east-west routes of the USA.
Californica's budget is 3X per capita that of Arizona... mostly due to un/under-funded pension funds exacerbated by leftist unions dominating the political scene... it's not long until Californica's budget will crash and burn.
Then Californica will seek a Federal bail-out... watch Trump snicker
Arizona, wisely, began implementing an employee-contribution pension system several years ago, thus avoiding a budget disaster.
Try I8 from Casa Grande to San Diego some time... when you cross over the Colorado River into Californica the ride goes from smooth to extremely bumpy. ...Jim Thompson
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I280, down the peninsula to silicon valley, is smooth and beautiful.
I80, from SF to the Nevada border, is fine, spectacular in places. The medians are planted and green. It's being repaved and widened in places now. It really needs three lanes in the mountains, because big loaded semis struggle with the grade, uphill or down, and go slow in the right lane. They really tear up the right lane, so they're welcome to it. Mo doesn't mind driving the flats, and lets me do the twisty parts from Auburn over the summit to Truckee, 6000 feet of altitude in
40 miles.A loaded semi stores a lot of kinetic energy.
Highway 1 is a world-class auto-ad drive, especially through Big Sur. Everybody should drive Highway 1 from LA to SF or so, once in their lives.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
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