There is hope if the people understand:  The record clearly shows that Republicans fought these tax increases hitting the poorest of the poor; the Democrats authored and ruthlessly defended those provisions.  There is no spinning or hiding those simple facts.  True champions of the poor, like Audra and Tony Strickland, understand that California has one of the highest per capita tax burdens in the country; that tax increases like those just passed hit the poor disproportionately.

Last summer the Republicans told Democrats and the Governor that the budget would not work. It didn’t then, it doesn’t now.  The crisis is merely postponed, again.  The Democrats and Governor will soon return when the current “solution” fails under the weight of its inconsistencies.  Then they, and the MSM, will vilify Republicans at every step.

Cut this out and tack it to the wall.  Remember, those who brought this crisis are they who only tax and spend; who will not attack bureaucratic waste in education and other departments of government.  The "Main Stream" Media won’t report it, Democrats won’t admit it, and Republicans are ignored when stating that the education budget, and the entire budget, grew in every year of Schwarzenegger’s governorship prior to legislation last week; California is in the top ten states in per capita taxes; cuts enacted by the bureaucracies since last week’s budget are born of the same spirit as past rhetoric about budget “cuts” while the budget was in fact growing faster than inflation.  There is enough money to serve the people’s needs, when we focus on that instead of protecting fiefdoms.