Local elected officials sit on the frontlines of the economic battle while the State and Federal governments continue to spend like there is no tomorrow.   Now that  Props. 1A -1E have failed, the state can fall back on its usually ploy of robbing from city coffers to cover some of their debt.  It is the cities that have to cut services, employees and budgets.  And it is the cities that have to finalize budgets for the next fiscal year with a big question mark on when/if the the State of California will come in and take a few million from each.  All the while the Feds continue to print money and the State has a spending addiction.

Read the article here in the North County Times.

It is the local communities that have to face their constituents directly.  All the actions from the State eventually trickle down to the streets and neigbhorhoods and into our homes.  Reduced services, less police patrols and shorter library hours are what we see.   The Democrat elite in the State legislature are completely out of touch with our everyday lives.  

The League of California cities has written a resolution it is encouraging cities to pass which simply says the money grab would inflict serious hardship on cities who have already tightened budgets and laid off staff.    Because the cities have no power to refuse the State, the local communities will need to brace themselves for the inevitable hit to their budgets.

Now that the tax increases have failed, it is up to the citizens to follow through and refuse to re-elect these tax and spenders.  Replace them at both the State and Federal levels with new, fiscal conservatives who actually have read the Constitution and love our country.  Enough is enough.