Gun confiscation and nukes?

@SheikYerbouti 😂

We're doing just fine without you.

@QuixoticSoul The last time the budget was balanced was under Gov. Pete Wilson (R). Lots of people and businesses fleeing from the land of fruits and nuts!

@SheikYerbouti We're running a surplus right now 😂

@QuixoticSoul With high taxes?! 👌

@SheikYerbouti Still a surplus 🤷‍♂️

@QuixoticSoul No it isn't 🙄

@SheikYerbouti See, this is what happens when you leave California, you instantly forget what terms like "balanced budget" and "surplus" actually mean 😂

@SheikYerbouti I don't like California either but extra money is extra money. I still wouldn't live there haha

@QuixoticSoul You apparently don't know either one 🤣 but keep on believing.

@SW-User High unemployment, gas prices, insurance. Yeah, that's a state to live in.

@SheikYerbouti When there is more money left after all budget items have been accounted for, they call that a surplus. It's like when Bill Clinton was president.

What do you call it?

@SW-User It's fine to criticize California, and this state has plenty of problems. But some of our ex-pats totally lose any sense of objectivity.

I get it - I'm an ex-pat myself, and when you leave your home, your outlook tends to be polarizing - either extreme nostalgia, or extreme rejection.

Anyway - for the peanut gallery: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-has-extraordinary-budget-13392995.php

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article221653225.html

@SheikYerbouti I think you missed the part where I said I wouldn't but that's okay haha

@daisymay 1.3 trillion California owes. You can fudge the numbers and do all the accounting tricks you want to.

@SW-User Just in case you had second thoughts.

@SheikYerbouti That's debt dude. You can have a balanced budget and debt. They're very different things.

@QuixoticSoul I admit it has done it's share of good despite not the way I would like it to be done. Haha


Every state has its issues. Haha

@SheikYerbouti How, specifically are the numbers fudged? And what specific accounting tricks have been used to perpetrate the fraud?

@SheikYerbouti name your .gov source sir if you can - dont just open your big mouth and spout out a number - Let me try -- I make 30000 an hour !!! - hey thats neat !! flapping without facts.

@QuixoticSoul Debt has to be payed right?

@SheikYerbouti Yes, debt has to be paid. What kind of nonsense are you spouting here? Do you think a balanced budget means not having any debt? That's not what it means. At all.

@SheikYerbouti Its a lost cause because you left - without you the State just fell apart --------stupid

@MarmeeMarch californispolicycenter.org You normally talk out of your rear end anyway.

@SheikYerbouti Attacking people because you're wrong is a sure way to prove you're winning!

@MarmeeMarch Because I'm too smart to pay more than nationwide taxes there slapnuts.