This week, readers of the Sacramento Bee are being “treated” to a series of editorials where, on a day by day basis, the editorial board fixes its sights on yet another “interest group” that is playing a role in the politics surrounding the state budget crisis. Their format seems to be similar – brief praise for their target, acknowledging a legitimate role for that group, and then blasting away at the group in question. I would summarize it this way – the members of the Bee editorial board clearly feel that the solution to the overspending crisis is some sort of mega-compromise where some of the increases in spending of the last few years are cut, and (I know you will be shocked) they want taxes to go up on Californians. So they have decided to heap criticism on anyone and everyone, right or left, who opposes this scheme.
Next they turned their sites on the California Teachers Association, criticizing them for doing what unions do, which is prioritize the pay and benefits of their members at all costs. Go figure.
Yesterday they decided to give an expository spanking to the state’s preeminent taxpayer advocacy and protection organization, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, in an editorial they titled: Anti-taxers chart course to disaster.
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January 15th, 2009 at 12:00 am
SacBee is nothing more than a Democrat party hack. I am amazed their readership has not been further reduced. No attempt is made to report the news as they are interested only in “making” the news.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:00 am
One of the slurs from the bee is that the organization does not give enough energy to “pursuing an agenda of real governmental reform.”
Exactly how many times do we have to tell the Democrats that a 40% increase in spending in the last 5 years is not sustainable? That wasting millions of dollars on crony pensions and useless commission jobs for Migden an Kuehl is an insults to the taxpayers? That giving more welfare to useless slugs than just about any other state only invites more useless slugs to come here to cash in?
Their behavior sure seems to indicate that they hold the taxpayers in contempt. But maybe I’m wrong… maybe the Democrats really don’t understand that they are wasting the money they already take from our families. In any event, they are sick. They are addicted. They need treatment. Giving them more drugs is not the answer.
The HJTA has drawn the line. Unlike Arnold and Cal-Tax, they will not be enablers.