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First they came for the communists,
but I was not a communist, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the socialists
and the trade unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they
came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did not speak out. And when they
came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
– Pastor Martin Niemoeller.
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| To File for Bankruptcy, Press 1 - Monday, November 23, 2009 This Is the California Hotline: To File for Bankruptcy, Press 1 David C. Stolinsky, MD California, here I come. So long, it’s been good to know you. Welcome to the California Hotline. To continue in Spanish, press star. To continue in English, press pound. To file for bankruptcy, press 1. To cut off water to Central Valley farms, reducing food production and throwing tens of thousands out of work, all for the alleged benefit of a four-inch fish, press 2. To spend money we don’t have as if it were water, but to hoard water we do have for the sake of a fish, press 3. To have student test scores at unacceptably low levels, but to listen to the teachers’ union rather than to advocates for the students, press 4. To have U.S. citizens from other states pay high out-of-state tuition, but illegal aliens pay lower in-state tuition, press 5. To have 1.2 million illegal aliens − 8% of the state population and one-quarter of the illegals in the nation − and still advocate open borders, while Speaker Pelosi (from California) calls immigration laws “un-American,” press 6. To have overflowing public hospitals, public schools, jails and prisons, as well as ballooning Medicaid costs, yet still claim illegal immigrants are a boon to the economy, press 7. To declare San Francisco and Los Angeles havens for illegal immigrants, press 8. To have leading politicians who were members of an organization dedicated to turning the American Southwest over to Mexico, press 9. To have the state with the most cars provide no more Highway Patrol officers than when the state had half its current population, press 10. To pay high vehicle-registration fees and gasoline taxes, but still wait three hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles and bounce over huge potholes, press 11. To push for electric cars while there is a shortage of electricity, press 12. To block the building of major power plants while the state’s population doubles, and then blame power companies for an “energy crisis” that somehow spared the other 49 states, press 13. To press for issuing driver’s licenses – the basis for other ID, voting and getting on airliners – to illegal aliens, press 14. To have legislators propose that the cure for a severe recession and a 12.5% unemployment rate is to raise taxes, press 15. To increase withholding, telling taxpayers they will get their money back after April 15 − that is, forcing them to give the state a loan at zero interest − press 16. To create an anti-business climate that drives employers out of the state, and then claim to be for workers, press 17. To advocate for open borders and to allow immigrants to work at or below the minimum wage, and then claim to be for unions, press 18. To saddle employers with soaring workers’ compensation costs, license and permit fees, fuel and disposal surcharges, health insurance costs, environmental regulations, and personal leave and “living wage” regulations, press 19. To live through an extraordinary boom without saving a penny for the inevitable recession, press 20. To increase state spending by 92% in 10 years, much faster than state income and population increased, press 21. To have high state income and sales taxes, but the lowest bond ratings of all 50 states, press 22. To have a budget deficit larger than the other 49 states combined, but resist attempts to cut spending, press 23. To cut public hospital capacity despite increasing numbers of illegal immigrants and jobless residents, press 24. To concentrate on gun control but neglect crime control, press 25. To obsess about criminals’ rights but ignore victims’ rights, press 26. To pass a law that prevents employers from firing a man who wears a dress at work, but to forbid a Marine from wearing dress blues at his graduation, press 27. To reject the free gift of the battleship USS Iowa as a World War II museum because “war is not the answer,” press 28. To reelect the only one of 535 senators and representatives to have voted against the use of force after 9/11, press 29. To have a U.S. senator whose response to the state’s problems is to utter irrelevancies such as condemning “assault weapons” and suggesting censoring talk radio, press 30. To enact stringent gun-control laws, including registration of ammunition sales, yet have a higher rate of violent crime than states that allow law-abiding citizens to carry guns, press 31. To blame everyone else for your problems, press 32. To allow the left wing of your party to take over, while calling your opponents “far-right extremists,” press 33. To control both houses of the legislature, as well as most major offices (except for a governor who is Republican in name only), but still not accept responsibility for what goes wrong, press 34. To live in a rich, beautiful state that is losing population, and claim to have no idea why this is happening, press 35. If you want to apply these ruinous policies nationwide, please stay on the line. You will be transferred to the Mental Health Hotline. Your call is important to us. If you would like to make a call, please hang up and try again. ● Author’s Note: A prior version of this article appeared in 2003. Since then, things have gotten worse. Einstein once said that doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity. But some people think it is the definition of wise policy. These people have been in charge in California for years. Now they are trying to do to the nation what they did to California. ● Dr. Stolinsky writes on political and social issues. He can be contacted at dstol@prodigy.net. www.stolinsky.com |
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