By: mr. ihavehadit

mr. ihavehadit — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:16:01 +0000

Yes on A.B. 390 !!!! Save California State Employees Jobs!!!!
The next time you take a bite of that Mc Hamburger think about who’s inspecting that restaurant for roaches, rodents and other common vermin. They won’t have the staff to do as many inspections as usual so what use to be annual will become every 5 years or 6 years and that’s a lot of unchecked rodent hair getting into our food. The Feds don’t inspect or have authority to inspect State food facilities. Dog pounds will cut the euthanasia waiting time over half which can be a problem if your pet gets out of the yard and picked up. You will have only 24 hours to claim your pet before it will have to be euthanize. City maintenance will cut their staff so soon those safety signs, lights and reflective paint on the roads will be a thing of the good old days. No the only State employees California will have left will be the politicians they elected who took it all away from them, right Arnold?

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:59:42 +0000

California’s problem is they don’t want to budget. We have two state Congressional groups “DEMOCRATS” and “REPUBLICANS” but both can not agree to make cuts. The democrats want to raise taxes, whether its (Raise Sales Taxes, Property Taxes, Vehicle License Fees, etc) but that will allow State Assembly people and State Senators to just continue raising the taxes on the common workers without making any cuts. BACK IN the 1990’s and 1980’s WE HAD A MUCH SMALLER STATE BUDGET AND PEOPLE WERE RELATIVELY HAPPY THEN. We didn’t have draining programs like class size reduction for K-3rd grade, which costs the state an excessive amount of money. The state actually want’s us to believe that kids can only learn if the class size is under 20 kids per class. MY MOTHER WENT TO A SAN FRANCISCO SHCOOL AND SHE HAD 50 KIDS IN HER CLASS FOR A FEW YEARS, AND SHE HAS A BACHELORS DEGREE TODAY. The Problem is we have such an extreme amount of kids that can not speak English, at an appropriate level for school. Thus, the state adds costly programs to support illegal immigrant’s families like (Class Size Reduction, Medi-Cal costs, Food Stamp Fees, Section 8 reduced rent fees, WIC , TANF Fees.) YES, I DO KNOW THERE ARE ALSO U.S. CITIZENS IN CALIFORNIA THAT UTILIZE THESE PROGRAMS, BUT NOT NEARLY AT THE AMOUNT THE ILLEGALS USE THE PROGRAM. And I do realize that illegals come from country’s that do not give them as much opportunity. But, the state needs to close its border, to restabilize itself, before allowing more immigrants to come in down the road, OR ELSE CALIFORNIA WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SLUGGISHLY DRAINED ECOMONY INTO THE FUTURE.
Now California’s problem are not just immigrants. State retirees (PERS and STRS retirees) now outnumber active state workers 2 to 1. THAT”S NOT GOOD. Thus, for California to get things straigtened out they need to budget and make cuts. THE ONLY THING THAT IS SAVING THE COMMON PERSON, IS WE HAVE A REQUIRED 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE. IF THE STATE’S CONGRESS PEOPLE HAD IT THEIR WAY, THEY WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT TO 50.1% MAJORITY, AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE RAISED MORE TAXES UPON US EASILY. THUS, THE 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE MAY ACTUALLY SAVE THE COMMON WORKER BY ACTUALLY FORCING THE STATE CONGRESS TO BUDGET. If the state congress can not agree to a budget then all the state Democrats and Republicans need to be voted out! Everyone of them. We all have to budget in every day of our lives. Therefore, they need to budget just as we do.
Its about time that they do the right thing.

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