Budget Battle Devolves Into Food Fight

CBS13 reports that "seven days after the new fiscal year began, the state of California still appears to be far from a budget solution" as lawmakers bicker "about fruits and juices. A war of words developed between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers over the fruit-related focus of three new bills. 'The governor is not against condiments. The governor's not against fruits of any kind,' said spokesman Aaron McLear. 'But he believes we ought to be focused on solving our budget crisis first and foremost.' Assembly bill 606 creates a commission to serve the marketing interests of the blueberry industry. Another bill defines 'honey' to mean the natural food product resulting from the harvest of nectar by honey bees, and a third bill adopts regulations establishing definitions and standards for 100-percent pomegranate juice. 'Look, we're pro-condiment, we're pro-fruit, but the focus needs to be on the budget crisis, McLear said."

First cow tails, then Chinese workers in the 19th century, then fruits and jucies. This is a parody of a legislature, and would be laughable if it were not tragic. That California's lawmakers cannot even get to work on solving the huge budget crisis the state faces and instead focuses on unimportant distractions is pathetic. It is a sad portrait of a reckless liberal legislature.
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