Okay flyover country, now’s your chance to repay the Liberal Elitists in California for the disdain with which they’ve referred to your inconsequential terrain nestled in between the coasts.

Have you noticed the condescension and sarcasm dripping from their comments while they chastise those supposedly less intellectually gifted than they? Over the years, they’ve taken every opportunity to demean the plebian populace living outside of the Promised Land. After all, California leads the nation, don’t they?

WELL, IF THEY’RE SO DAMN SMART, WHY IS CALIFORNIA IN SUCH CRAPPY FINANCIAL SHAPE?

It’s not so difficult for us ignerunt (sic) clods in the insignificant part of the country to figure out. While too dumb to comprehend any logic more complicated than “water is wet,” we somehow just stumbled onto the solution. Granted, we can’t possibly be as smart as the intellectual elites out there, but most of us CAN balance a checkbook, and apparently they can’t.

California is currently boasting a 21 billion dollar DEFICIT (that’s a minus for those of you in Rio Linda).

Using a formula even a simpleton can understand, it means that spending is expected to exceed revenue by $21,000,000,000. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that there are only three ways to fix the problem: raise revenue, reduce spending, or some combination thereof. A newsflash: when outgo exceeds income, your business model needs fixing.

So, on May 19, 2009, the voters of California had an opportunity to address the state’s deficit by raising revenue (one of their options). And what did they do? They chose to DO NOTHING; they took a page from the Obama playbook and voted “PRESENT.”

Did you get that? These paragons of superior brainpower and existential empathy voted to do NOTHING. Doing nothing is NOT one of the options that will fix California’s budget problems.

But hey, it’s not the voter’s fault – they assumed that their elected representatives would govern responsibly. Right? But WHO put those elected representatives in their government jobs? Those same voters.

It’s like that old Bible passage, “What Ye Vote, So Shall Ye Reap,” or something like that.

When every hair-brained, social feel-good scheme is enacted without regard to costs, someone’s head should roll. They’ve finally hit lint in that bottomless taxpayer pocket.

But wait! These California voters have a solid track record. These are the same voters who elected outstanding folks to represent California at the federal level: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and Representatives Barbara Lee, Henry Waxman, and Maxine Waters (to name a few). That gaggle of ne’er-do-wells couldn’t get elected to city council jobs in most of flyover country. And yet, California keeps sending them back. It just shows to go you.

California is an excellent example of how liberal policies “feel good” but (1) historically never work, (2) are unrealistic, and (3) are fiscally irresponsible.

So now the only apparent option left is to cut expenses. But before Californians take those draconian measures, they will pray to Obama. They’ll pray for a miracle – a bailout miracle.

Now, apparently something akin to bankruptcy is not an option for a state with the eighth largest economy in the world. The federal government (Obama, Pelosi and Reid, oh my) will have to come to California’s rescue. And that means that OUR tax money would be used to bail out the irresponsible, tax and spend liberals who have run their state into the ground.

It’s time for us to say N.O.D. – Not One Dime. 

A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that in 2004 the annual uncompensated cost of medical care for illegal immigrants in California was $1.4 billion. Total uncompensated educational, health care and incarceration costs for “illegal immigrants” in California were estimated to be 10.5 billion – and that’s in 2004 dollars.  What are the chances that the cost of illegals in California is more than half of their budget deficit by now?

Nowhere else is the coddling of illegals more evident than the Golden State. That’s one of the reasons for their fiscal condition. They won’t say no. The left wields majority power there and it shows. Their left-wing “leadership” has made them the center of the gay universe, home base for Code Pink and other anti-military groups, the Promised Land for Mexican illegals, and heaven for tax and spend liberals.

They’ll say “not in my back yard,” when talking about offshore drilling, but won’t take the same stance when it comes to illegal aliens. Their back yard has a welcome mat at the gate for them.

In October, 2007, Californians for Population Stabilization (a nonprofit public interest organization) presented the following low, medium and high estimates of that state’s illegal population: a range of 2.47 million to 4.8 million, with a median figure of 2.8 million - up from 1.7 million in 1994. The 4.8 million "high" estimate, is based on California's assumed 24% share of the overall illegal population, and implies a national illegal population of 20 million.

Just an FYI, that median figure of 2.8 million is a population greater than 17 of our 50 states (or should that be 57 states?). The illegals in California, by themselves would place 33^rd among the states ranked by population (most to least).

Now, there are a lot of other issues where California has overspent, and they’re easily identifiable, but spending on illegals is the most egregious.