Evelyn Guzman
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The children throughout the nation currently have moved for now from this to “green jobs,” which to them is an even bigger, more long-lasting, more magical instant solution to everything including the common cold. It's not only going to be the object of obscession with a few state governments, but also of many a misspender in Washington.

“Spending money”: And how much did California's state spending leap upward during the stock bubble?

If the revolt results in new laws being passed, the scum of society will misuse the courts to try to get the laws overturned and the will of the people and their morality subverted. This is, of course, nothing new.

No, just fair, reasonable taxes (restricted to such) for all. Longer-term residents don't have the right to live as welfare recipients off others who arrive in the state later and pay most people's taxes, not only their own proper share. As I've said for years, there's no reason to rely on assessed valuation for the purpose of levying property taxes. An objective measure such as square footage of land area of parcels, and of the structures built on the parcels, is superior as well as obviously inherently more fair and just. Why it's not done is an open question, though the lust for excessive taxes and manipulation of markets and lives is the obvious answer.

I (a California native) don't miss this. It's gotten ever more crowded, expensive, and dysfunctional there. Sacramento's “Massachusetts Lite” behavior has long been notorious. How long before they expect and demand a bailout (it's a Democratic-run state, after all) from a federal government that currently also sees no limits to what they want to spend, and are looking to spent vast amounts more? Lessons from the Golden State in past years aren't learned, lessons from New York City (which bankrupted itself through liberal politics and policies and vast spending) aren't learned, and Washington currently is doing the same thing as California. [sigh]

California — Too Big (A Government) to Succeed. Lesson for Washington, DC, if it would ever learn…

Then we're forced to educate them and give them free health care along with their parents (parent). Then how many are in public housing like obama's aunt? How much is it costing to jail the illegal aliens, then deport them, when they shouldn't be here in the first place.

It's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these illegal aliens. It's time we get these illegal aliens back to their own country where they belong. They don't belong here and we don't want them here!

NO AMNESTY! NO AMNESTY! NO AMNESTY!

ENFORCE THE LAW!

I actually wish our leaders in Sacramento spent a little more time partying together. In the old days politicians would fight like hell during the week and golf together on the weekends. I have to imagine that led to a more collaborative relationship.

I say they put their six and seven figure incomes where their mouths are, stop their caviar and cocaine parties and shunt that money into keeping some potholes filled. I know, I tend to wander into bizarre fantasies sometimes…

When was the last time the Lotto was audited by an independant citizen revue board?

What? Did I say something wrong?…lol…

But the brake could be loosened a bit. Property assessments should drift enough to meet the market over time, and prop 13 should never have applied to commercial property. We should fix that, but in exchange do other things to make the state more business-friendly.

And we should certainly reform our initiative system and our fundamentally broken financial decision-making process. It currently takes a majority vote to mandate new spending and a 2/3 vote to authorize new funding. If we just reversed that, we'd have surpluses from now till the end of time.