Kalifornia Kanary

Conventional wisdom says that whatever happens in California economically, happens to the rest of the country a few years later. They are having buyers remorse with the socialism they have been purchasing for the last 30 years. To show they are tired of rewarding failure, and rampant government spending they voted down the most recent tax increases

An angry electorate soundly defeated a slate of special election budget measures Tuesday, a decision that left Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers holding virtually nothing but a scalpel to deal with California's $21.3 billion shortfall.

The reason this election was called was that the politicians in Sacramento thought that it was business as usual and they could just pile it on the back of the California tax payer, but they showed them.

Schwarzenegger and lawmakers called the special election in February as part of a plan to solve a $42 billion deficit that had been projected through mid-2010. '

They asked California voters consider a complex mix of spending reforms, higher taxes, borrowing and funding shifts.

Most of the measures were losing by wide margins, with at least 60 percent of voters rejecting them, according to partial returns.

They did, however, pass one resolution;

Voters approved just one of the six propositions, a measure prohibiting pay raises for lawmakers and other state elected officials during deficit years.

They will probably go crying to Obama, who then will foist the irresponsible spending of Sacramento onto the rest of the country, instead of making big cuts. We will see, just remember, I said it here.