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Sunday, July 03, 2011

revealing quote ...

Pappy And James Taranto:


An Associated Press dispatch about California's budget dispute contains one of the most revealing quotes we've seen in a long time, from the head of the California Federation of Teachers:

"Our polling shows us clearly that this is a winner, that very high numbers of the public and likely voters agree that the wealthiest Californians should contribute more," said Fred Glass, the federation's communications director. "I think there's a growing recognition that it's not that California's broke. We have plenty of money in this state; it's just in other pockets."

It's like when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks and said, "That's where the money is."

6 comments:

  1. And have they thought to consider WTF they're going to do when all those pockets leave the state? Oh yeah, it'll be someone elses problem then.

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  2. Do they think they can rob the same pockets two years in a row?

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  3. Larry Gatlin sang, "All the gold in California is in a bank in Beverley Hills in somebody else's name." It's time to move it offshore because the looters are coming.

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  4. I have a surly personality, a playground sense of justice, and am available for "security" work in the golden state.

    Casca

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  5. Wait... Isn't that a direct Michael pass the cheezeburgers Moore quote?
    He said it in Wisconsin, right?

    e~C

    TW: [perfete; my memory is...]

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  6. Didn't he mean to say "Just in other's pockets"? - Skyhawker, Doug

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