Affordable housing, or free healthcare for illegal aliens? California will have to choose this weekend.

Photo above - the iconic "Spadena" house, now worth $10 million, was used for a location shot in the film Clueless. The owners may be resisting the construction of affordable housing adjacent to their neighborhood. But Cher (Alicia Silverstone) does look safe and carefree, doesn't she?

How can anyone vote against affordable housing? Well, you can if you're a politician who received big money from wealthy voters in your district to keep that sort of stuff from being built near their ritzy homes. (See link below)

By law, California is required to have a balanced state budget. So at the end of the day they can’t afford EVERYTHING and just borrow endlessly like the federal government.

Governor Newsom – currently in 2nd or 3rd place in the race for 2028 democrat presidential nomination – is walking a tightrope. If he bungles California's budget, he can wave goodbye to the votes of moderate democrats in the other 49 states. Hence, his decision to sacrifice free migrant healthcare, and put state money towards efforts to building more affordable housing.

Unsurprisingly, mansion owners in California aren’t wild about this idea. You know, falling property values, crime increases. Because the governor doesn’t hear their lamentations, they’ve enlisted the state legislature. Campaign contributions loom larger for them, than for Newsom. Both sides can’t win, of course. Unless more cuts are made to police, fire, EMT's, schools, reservoirs, trash collection . . .

California’s budget deficit – which needs to be fixed, before a budget can be passed – is $12 billion. At his point, all the socialists who don’t have 12 hundred dollars in the bank should jump up and down and rant that $12 billion is “small potatoes”. They will regale us with their easy answers: rent controls; higher sales tax; higher gasoline tax; higher income tax; higher property tax.

Except California has already been doing most of those things, since forever. And the problem is getting worse, not better.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

California budget comes down to the wire as Newsom, lawmakers face off over housing

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exchrist · 31-35

Issue everything costs more each and every year.
Issue the federal government never pays its portion of the bill instead opting to buy more weapons.

Issue states with the highest population are expected to cover their own bills. While the fed gets the most tax dollars from them.
Solution if there is one.
The fed needs a balanced budget law. Stop war spending. Fund border security (the fed keeps screaming build a wall. But maybe just staff the border as it already is. Any security is better than throwing endless money at Israel and the Middle East.
Im just saying. Something needs to change. . .

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@exchrist agree that a balanced budget would help. But probably impossible to enact in a single budget cycle. We'd need a phase in period - 3 years? 5 years? where spending is decreased across the entire budget, until it's in balance.

How about a law saying that if congress cannot pass a balanced budget, new elections will be held in 90 days?

exchrist · 31-35

@SusanInFlorida i certainly would support that 90 day idea. Personally the main issue is military funding obligations(esp. entangled alliances), ww2 mindset ( America's going to save the world and enforce good morals). Those two and a perceived unwillingness to invest domestically. Imagine paying our national debt and improving domestic issues? Its beyond the scope of these war mongrel politicains.
Therefore it is a distraction to keep citizens from examining the real issues.
The reality? Citizens, through the internet, can see the writing on the wall and readily examine how other countries have grappled with these same or very similar issues.
Unfortunately ww2 politicains ww2 strategies money based elections.
It is coming to a point and soon.