July 02, 2009, 11:43 AM

We are about to have a third furlough day for State employees.  It would be better for the public if we had NO furloughs, instead layoff the unneeded, unaffordable employees.

Even better, we should get rid of the unneeded and duplicative agencies.  has it bothered you that the DMV is closed on Saturdays and one Friday a month?  The people have begun using the Internet to do their DMV business instead.  How many other agencies could do this.

Did you know that the city of Los Angeles, begging for State money, OWNS a miniature gold course in the San Fernando Valley?

"Take the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which has seen a dramatic increase in customers taking advantage of its online services in the wake of the recent furloughs.

Rather than be adversely impacted, Californians simply went online to conduct their business which begs the question of whether or not some of those furloughed DMV employees should have jobs in the first place. And what of the states park system which could easily be privatized instead of draining hundreds of millions in tax dollars each year?

Sure Californias parks are lovely, but are they an essential government responsibility?

Sadly, common sense assessments like that dont seem to factor into the decision-making process in Sacramento."

Our Governor calls himself a "student" of Milton Friedman.  Here is what he has done: "In fact, a recent analysis of the states general fund conducted by the San Jose Mercury News found that government growth in California had exceeded the growth in population plus inflation by a whopping $10.2 billion over the previous five years.

Thats a 35% increase in just five years.

"I wish it hadn't grown that much," Gov. Schwarzeneggers finance director said last February. Had we stuck with a very austere budget, we would have been in better shape.''

Arnold has No one to blame but himself.  he signed the budgets to expand expenditures.  Isn't it time to sell government instead of expanding it?

July 02, 2009, 11:40 AM

In the whole of Los Angeles, the Feds are asking 50 businesses about illegal aliens.  LA has over 3,000,000 people.  I live in Simi Valley, a town of 120,000.  In one hour I could give you the names of 50 business that hire illegal aliens.  In the whole nation the Obama people are pounding their breasts--"we are investigating 650 business for hiring illegal aliens".  Heck in Ventura County you can find that many.

Start at Home Depot, go to the car washes, then go to the restaurants and hotels--650 easily, just in this county.

Instead of a"question" being raised how about raiding each of these places--or at least just the sidewalks.

Nice headlines to make us feel like Obama means business--but it is just a headline--the Feds could pick up 100,000 illegal aliens in a week in California by just doing their jobs.

Time for government to enforce the law, or challenge them for protecting criminals.

July 02, 2009, 11:38 AM

Add up all the costly AB 32 rules that "save" greenhouse" gases--at the cost of tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars--then compare that to one month of china building new plants--and China becomes the real culprit, if you believe in Global Warming (actually, temperatures world wide are dropping--we now have Global Cooling--but that is natural.

"Every seven to 10 days, as the New York Times reports, a new coal-fired plant big enough to serve every household in San Diego comes on line in China, exporting more pollution to California and the Western United States than Schwarzenegger's draconian proposals could ever hope to eliminate.

As a "developing" nation, China is exempt from the Kyoto agreement under which industrialized countries are trying to reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases. China burns 2,500 tons of coal and 210,000 gallons of crude oil per minute. It has plans for 2,200 additional coal generators by 2030.

For every "cleaner" car put on California highways, many more regular cars will be added to Chinese roads with their drivers going to businesses that are opening, not closing or moving elsewhere. Guess which way the wind will blow all those greenhouse gases and auto pollution."

But facts never bothered Sacramento in its quest to destroy jobs, families and the State.  Now the people of California are being harmed while the people of China prosper--who does our elected officials represent?

July 02, 2009, 11:35 AM

Well, looks like the State deficit just went up another $2.5 billion, from $26 billion to $28.5 billion.

Why, because the Governor and the legislature took $2.5 billion illegally and they knew it at the time.  The hope was that by the time they were ordered to return the money, they would have it.

This is the good news.  There are lawsuits against the State for another $10 billion, in total, of stolen money.  Arnold will lose those lawsuits as well.

In fact, between the Feds take over of the prisons, the lost lawsuits, California has approximately another $16 billion in deficits.

California has melted down.  Only reform will save the State.  Time to time, not expand government, time to make government stop killing jobs.

July 02, 2009, 11:20 AM

Government Motors, on order of some government official ended a contract to build cars in Fremont, in the Bay Area.

Now, the San Jose Mercury News wants to use California tax dollars to keep the plant open.  "Schwarzenegger should offer Toyota the necessary incentives to make the NUMMI plant a model for producing fuel-efficient cars for years to come.

California represents a huge market for the green cars of the future. Last year NUMMI churned out nearly 300,000 Corollas and Tacomas. Imagine the excitement that would be generated if Toyota were to build an electric version of the Prius in the Golden State."

Maybe they want Arnold to buy the plant in the name of the people of California--just as Obama has two car companies--Government Motors and Chrysler.

California has a $30 billion deficit, on top of a $42 billion deficit--all in just 18 months.  Is it the role of government to run car companies.

This is why newspapers have no trust or credibility--a failed newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News believes it is the role of government to own failed companies.

Instead, Toyota should sue the Feds for interference in a contract.  In your name Obama is about to kill the jobs of hundreds.

Should government use the tax dollars of some, who will then lose their jobs, to help some keep their jobs?

Shame on us for allowing this.

July 02, 2009, 11:17 AM

LAUSD has a one billion deficit and the most corrupt and incompetent management in the State.  It has lost 115,000 students in eight years, yet has more teachers AND schools then it did in 2002.

Districts sign contracts with unions that are un affordable and harm students, builld expensive schools, waste class time on social engineering and have high drop out rates.

Some schools have great football teams, but high drop out rates--they teach music but the students are functional illiterates.

Students are held hostage in what the US Secretary of Education calls "Failure Factories".

Allow parents to have vouchers--are schools for the benefit of the unions or the students?  The unions have bankrupted our government schools--time for the parents to take them back from the special interests, and the coming bankruptcy of our school districts.

July 02, 2009, 11:13 AM

Great news!!!!  Our parks will not be closed.  The deficit laden Feds will take them over!!

A better idea is to sell them to private interests, or at least lease them out to private management firms.  The parks can become money makers instead of a drain on the State.

Are the folks in Sacramento smart enough to make the right decisions?

July 02, 2009, 11:09 AM

In San Fran if you break the law, and you are the city, you do not stop, you change the law.  "Pasadena's Parsons Corp. wants the California Legislature to change conflict-of-interest rules to exempt the firm from a legal challenge lodged last year by City Attorney Dennis Herrera. His opinion left the firm, one of the country's most experienced with major infrastructure projects , at risk of losing millions of dollars in contract work. At issue is a state law that restricts private contractors who plan state projects from later receiving the construction work."

The fun part is that Parsons hired Willie Brown, the poster child for term limits due to his ethically challenged time in the Assembly, to go to Sacramento and change the law.

Regardless, Parsons broke the law and the city knew it, at the time.

What is it about the water in San Fran that allows officials to violate the law and still smile?

July 01, 2009, 06:52 PM

If you are in the military, when you are moved, domestically, your family moves with you.

When you move, your children are forced to go to the local government schools, regardless of how good or bad they are.  If a bad school, the children of the military personnel get penalized--for life.

The teachers unions do not want a voucher program for the children of the military--they want military kids held hostage to union controlled, government owned failure factories.

This is too high a price for those in the military to have to pay, forcing their children into bad schools, harming them for life.

This is what unions are about, power and control.  Don't pay them a bribe and you can't teach, in the military your children are forced into bad schools with no way out.

Those that defend our freedoms deserve better--their families deserve better.

End the union monopoly and free the children of the military to receive the best education possible.

What do you think--hold them hostage or free them?

July 01, 2009, 01:00 PM