California

 How can anyone know Peace living in California as it is? Yet Peace is the only way to bring our state to a place of Wholesome Sustainability. If Wholesome Sustainability sounds unattainable, as if some unrealistic dreamer is merely playing with words to create false hope where no hope exists. I recognize your skepticism. I know it well as it very frequently is my perspective too.

 We must at least attempt through our Democracy as people of real concern for our welfare and the health of future generations, to alter the direction that we have been heading. Here is a list

of points I hope someone will be representing in California's upcoming general election.

    1.) An immediate moratorium on all new water hookups residential or commercial.

    2.) An end to the Public Proposition. Billions have been spent on projects that may not be essential. The passage of no laws in the Assembly or House is preferable to bad laws.

    3.) A thorough review of the California Correction Authority. Inmates in most cases of victimless crimes should be released. Elected Representatives of the people need to refuse

financial donations from the Correction Union. A corruption of the spirit of justice occurs when

expansion of our Prison System seems to be tied to Political Contributions.

     4.) A tax on landlord's holding 30 or more units of property to be modified by Tenant rent reductions.

     5.) Legalization of Marijuana

     6.) Joint local and state tax relief for new California Manufacturing

     7.) The protection of Teacher's Jobs is a necessity, particularly in our poorest communities.

     8.) A statewide initiative lead by communities and property owners to create Green Belts and Strips and in every location as possible. To create where currently none exists: A rich Carbon Sink (the action of green plants soaking up the CO2 from autos and industry) that can help lead the way towards a Zero Waste society.

     9.) California leads the way for the Planet in creating a sustainable civilization not based on

state decree but on the initiatives of local communities and individuals.

    Here's a starting 9. The ideas can be fleshed out a bit more, there is much more I could write about, but early this Sunday AM I hope getting something out in the public, even if it is to 5 people, will be at least a step. Maybe it will help me get some sleep knowing I've said something. Yes we can.