In the Tuesday 24 April 2007 San Jose Mercury News newspaper there is a long article about the 0.5 $M /year court appointed administrator,,,maybe for 10 years !!,,,because our state legislators have neglected to do their jobs for so long.
According to the article, the state lost a class action lawsuit, conditions were that bad,,,and in 2005 the judge scolded the state for its incompetence and neglect resulting in many deaths , and thus instead of the Governor, Arnold S., and the State Legislature doing their jobs, now we California taxpayers have to pay a court appointed administrator and several others way too much.
The article also brought up the point that the General Services Agency is totally incompetent with a culture of low/no standard work performance !! How incompetent and $ wasteful does our state government have to get before Californians raise their voices and demand more responsible and efficient use of our tax dollars ?!
We have the worst roads, for years , in the USA. We have some of the worst public schools in the USA. We have the worst state bond rating with the bottom 3 states, in the USA. And after the terribly stupid attempt in 1996 by the same state legislature and Gov. Grey Davis to 'deregulate' energy in California, resulting in the state going very deep into the red by being ripped off by Enron, Arthur Andersen, and major banks like Citi, Merrel Lynch,etc.,,,we are so deep in Debt. Plus the incompetent state highway agency, CalTrans and their 6x -7x cost overrun on the SF Bay Bridge ,that instead of a billion, will probably cost us 7+$Billion. Another state agency that should be fired, en mass.
