Rags 'n' Bones

nezua:

azaztheunabridged:

robot-heart-politics:

buffleheadcabin:

There is an unreal, almost dreamlike quality about this moment. Dreadful things are about to happen: Hundreds of thousands of children will lose their healthcare. Five thousand state workers will be laid off. Massive cuts will decimate education at every level. Social services will be slashed. Two hundred and twenty-nine parks, out of a total of 280, will be shut down. Even some of the state’s landmarks may go on the auction block to raise money.

Yet as their state prepares to go over the cliff, California’s citizens seem weirdly oblivious, or resigned, or numb. Like inhabitants of a corrupt third-world country who have utterly lost faith in their government and in politics itself, or ostriches sticking their heads in the sand, Californians are behaving as if the whole thing is out of their control. Or even that it isn’t happening at all.

Wow.

I hadn’t even heard about most of these.

Here is Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California on the mood and how he is taking all of this:

Schwarzenegger reclined deeply in his chair, lighted an eight-inch cigar and declared himself “perfectly fine,” despite the fiscal debacle and personal heartsickness all around him. “Someone else might walk out of here every day depressed, but I don’t walk out of here depressed,” Schwarzenegger said. Whatever happens, “I will sit down in my Jacuzzi tonight,” he said. “I’m going to lay back with a stogie.”

A GLIMPSE into the minds behind the class war that will take a clearer and clearer shape over the next year or more.

It does sort of feel out of our hands.  The poor are still poor.  The middle class is on it’s way there.  But what can we do?  We are too busy working to go protest at the capital, to tell those assholes republicans to agree to a budget with fucking tax increases already.  Those like me have already written them telling them so.  And the rich don’t care because they never fucking care.  At worst they’ll have to give up their membership to the country club you know (who are still giving away Ferrari’s for a hole-in-one, true story).  I wouldn’t be surprised if we turned into the wild west again and every regional area for themselves if the shit hits the fan in the worst case scenario like.