December 29, 2002

The California Spin
The Power Elite Tell Us: "California is Not Unusual"

Just as we predicted
The "company line" from the L.A. Times:
"Struggling through their worst financial crisis in half a century, states are freeing prisoners, closing libraries, hiking college tuition, even halting prosecution of abusive spouses as legislators scramble to plug budget gaps that seem to widen by the day."
L.A. Times 12/29/2002
In other words:
"California is not unusual"
"Illegal Immigration has nothing to do with it."
"It isn't Gray Davis' fault."
"Get ready for really bad things in California."
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AP Comment: Never mind that California's budget deficit is greater than the rest of the states' budget deficits combined (National Association of State Budget Officers)!!! Never mind that Gray Davis killed Proposition 187 and allowed millions of illegal aliens to receive billions in California taxpayer funds - and then lied about it! Never mind that millions of middle class, taxpaying Americans have fled California!
ABC NEWS -- IN ON THE SPIN
This Week with George Stephanopoulos -- Dec. 29 -- According to the geniuses at ABC Network News, California's budget deficit is around $20 billion. Of course Governor Gray Davis says it is more than $34 billion. But what does he know? During the same show, governor-elect Napolitano of Arizona said her state's deficit is due in large part to illegal immigration. (There is always the ten percent who don't get the word.)
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