On 01/12/2010 05:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 01/12/2010 11:59 AM, Jim wrote: > >> It's time you Cali-for-ia Gurus come out of the woodwork and make it >> happen out there. >> I would imagine there is more Gurus in California per square inch than >> any place in the U.S. >> You now have your marching orders from the CIO of your state , so lets >> make it happen. You have heard that old saying "what ever California >> does So goes the Nation" >> >> Read article below and get scoop. >> >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10432052-16.html >> > Truly spoken like a man who doesn't live here. > > <soap> <!-- Turn away now...this gets political --> > The heavily ensconced special interest groups here that run our state > government (to the detriment of every _legal_ resident taxpayer) would > NEVER allow any such commonsense solution. The legislature here has > absolutely no concept of the real world. They only understand "spend, > spend, SPEND!" In their delusional Utopia, cost is no object and > accounting flim-flams, slight-of-hand cleverness and outright denial > that anything's wrong will hide it all. > > The C-Net article doesn't go into it fully, but the $20B deficit they > quote is after the accounting tricks have been performed. By the way, > these machinations are precisely the kind which landed the executives > of Global Crossing, Broadcom, and several other corporations in jail. > In reality, it's more like a $60B deficit, and with interest will > probably cap out at over $100B when the bill is fully paid and the > damage is truly assessed. > > But then again, what happened here has already happened in Washington > with the Senate, House and Obama. Trust me, you DON'T want any bloody > part of it. Pelosi is from the People's Republic of San Francisco, for > Christ's sake! You want MORE of that kind of bovine excrement? > > There is a movement afoot to change our state flag's symbol from the > California Golden Bear to an ostrich with its head buried in a septic > tank (or perhaps more appropriately, up its own arse). > </soap> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Do you know where _your_ towel is? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rick what your feeling is the feeling of the whole country. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines