As expected by all thinking people, the unemployment rate continues to rise. In the face of this, democrats are still fighting to raise taxes and raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately, we have a president who used the stimulous as a political payoff to his buddies with the belief that the economy would fix itself, because it always does. Now we need a real stimulus but the public has lost their appetite for goverment spending. Meanwhile, goverment employees and goverment employee unions who have largely gone untouched during the great recession are starting to feel the pinch as stimulus funds run out. Finally, 4 years later the goverment excess is coming to a head in states like Wisconsin. Unfortunately, in California the continue to pass sham budgets and pension increases to public employee Unions. Ultimately, believing as Obama did that we'll eventually come out of this and the democrats political cronies will remain not only unscathed, but enhanced. You can only kick the can down the road so far, eventually these bills are going to come due. In California's case, Jerry Brown will be long gone at that point so why should it matter to him. He doesn't want to upset funding to his party by making the hard decisions to keep our economy afloat.
