Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 11, 2010

During a recent press conference, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, straining to create a moment of pseudo-Reaganesque folksiness, told a story about his pet pig and pony working together to steal food from his dog.

That story, according to the Gubernator, was akin to the efforts he and legislators had made to craft a state budget.

Appropriately, Schwarzenegger analogy describes an act of collaborative theft, which is what democratic politics invariably becomes.

California is afflicted with a population of nearly 250,000 government employees, and keeping the unionized tax-feeders happy ? whether they?re active or retired -- is bankrupting the Golden State. During the past decade, while revenues increased 24%, pension costs for public employees ? many of whom retired at age 50 with annual pensions of over $100,000 -- increased 2000%.

California seeks federal subsidies to close its budget gap, thereby preserving those government pensions by stealing money earned by private citizens from across the country who may never be able to retire.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.