California's Governor Jerry Brown gave his state of the state address a week ago. I managed to listen to most of it while driving taxi. Jerry is the hero now... the California Budget went from a 6 Billion deficit to a 16 Billion deficit to a balanced budget in about two years. Wow!
His speech was full of great concepts and ideas for the proper moral developement of children through education to common sense approaches to law where he sounded almost T Partyish, enough with the bills
legislators why do we have thousands of new laws every year. Jerry is on top of his game and the great state of California will only continue to get better.
Skunk Cabbage! (That phrase was just 'channeled' like his plan to improve the ecology of the Delta by building tunnels under the Delta to ship water to Southern California from the North)
Where does one start looking at the dots and connect them creating .. revealing sadly the same old story corruption and bankruptcy.
From a state where Schwarzenegger rode in to save us, with the support of So California Real estate developers... let's go even deeper into .. a deep rose colored hole.
... California faces a crisis in quality of Life and if we face it squarely we can do the whole planet a favor. More people more growth is not the answer. More water pumped to Southern California is not a solution in sustainability. They claim only 16 Billion for that project. Why not give the younger generations of Californians the gift of a less crowded world. We need to end the model of California developers massive 'villages' 'communities' dumped everywhere. Destroying the quality of life, suffocating us in too much humanity who rather than bringing more money, bring more issues... sewage crisis, water crisis, food crisis. Am I over reacting. Maybe. What happens when California's Katrina comes along? Why not take care of our existing community rather than building the great Ponzi scheme of infinite growth to even more perilous heights.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/26/5142201/jerry-browns-water-plan-faces.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/13/5111910/californias-debt-still-a-heavy.html
Then there is this adventurous High Speed rail plan that Jerry is so thrilled with. Somehow they have got the cost down to only $57 Billion of which California has $12 Billion covered enough to begin thanks to the Federal Government (which owes15 Trillion to somebody) generously giving away your tax dollars. Wake up California! What's behind the dream here? I am not sure but my hunch there is huge money betting on huge developements out there in the 'wastelands' of Bakersfield... shuttle them in and out of LA. Cha Ching!! We can borrow the money like we have been so successful at borrowing over the past few years.. see that article referenced above about California's debt. Where do you borrow money from?
Cha Ching China!! Let's go to China.
http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Jerry-Brown-to-tout-state-on-China-visit-4222198.php
Hey there is nothing wrong with having strong ties with China. But what are we selling off to ' borrow' money from 'the state-owned' Banks of China. Isn't our problem 'debt' in California. Isn't that the USA's problem... When do we ever stop? According to Amtraks available online information regarding their prettty strong locomotives, they can easily reach 100 mph (120 mph is top) if the tracks are maintained. A hundred mile an hour train can get from downtown SF to downtown LA in .. what 4hours? That's pretty good. That's a nice ride, with beautiful California passing in front of your eyes. Or maybe you want 200 miles an hour with a blur of massive housing developements throughout the central valley.
You can't stop progress Guy.
I don't buy that it's progress. Who is going to fill those massive developements, who gets to build this railroad...? Just questions I don't have the answers. But the people who we borrow the money from are going to have quite a bit of leverage you would guess.
Speaking of California's state of the state how do you define Corruption?
State Parks/ Cal Fire
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/24/5139400/prosecutor-rejects-calif-ags-parks.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/26/5142092/cal-fire-kept-36-million-from.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles
The SF CHronicle had a story I can't find that was a headline during the Schwarzenneger years.. 250 California government workers make $250,000 or more per year..
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