Don't you just hate those lazy lousy elected politicians in Sacramento and how they take our votes,,, and sell us down the river to campaign corp. contributors interests!!
I talked to a AAA claims adjuster who told me about a guy driving legally in a new Mercedes and he has a tire fly in his windshield from a collision he could not possibly avoid right in front of him. He had to pay for all his cars damages as the insurance companies involved, INCLUDING HIS EXPENSIVE CAR INSURANCE COMPANY!!, said he, the legal following victim driver in the Mercedes, get this!!, was "causing his own car to be damaged"!!
Holy Shit, do the insurance companies have it made; The sorry bastards in Sacramento have rewritten the law so that someone minding their own business and legally driving on the state highways ,,, has to pay for damage to his car in the $10,000s because the liable driver that CAUSED THE COLLISION has an insurance company that does not want to pay full damages , including flying debris and immediate debris, of that same accident!!
In my case, it was my own Nationwide Insurance company who did not want to investigate how my car was damaged over $1000 by debris. "Oh, why don't you call the CHP and get the accident case number and who they determined was at fault?" I had 4 Nationwide reps tell me this.
So i called my local State Rep. He tried but we got a rude and insulting letter from the State of California Insurance Commissioner's office, 'who the hell do you think you are to bother your State Representative and have them bother us,,,!" Gee, guess i did not know Sacramento had SCREWED ALL CALIFORNIA DRIVERS, AGAIN.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
United States citizenship needs a PROBATIONARY PERIOD,,,badly.
If we had one, think of all the Italian Mafia we could have sent back!
At least 10 years for minor crimes like violent assault-rape, so we can send them back to France,,,Then maybe 20-40 years for serious crimes like stealing payroll for years from all /most of the immigrant's employees, so we can send them back to Korea or Iran. And a first generation lifetime probationary period for serious crimes , like murder and terrorism, so we can send them back to Muslim countries,,, instead of paying massive amounts to 'properly' jail them.
Unlike the Founding Fathers, we are no longer desperate for just any warm bodies, or should not be. Why are we allowing low IQ India's in as full citizens, who work at gas stations and take forever to count a few paper money bills they are still not familiar with after years? And they are never on time!
If you have a Mexican drug cartel tattoo, you get deported!, with your whole state-side family, back to miserable Mexico! We don't have enough jobs for all these illegals, let alone those born here legally. And we don't have the tax base anymore to pay even for their jail time.
The Republicans want to kill Medicare and end most government, but for a very expensive military. If they win any seats in 2012 you can expect more potholes, less health care , and a more toxic public environment, with continuing sewage spills/dumping in San Francisco Bay and old coal plants that still, still, do not have modern stack scrubbing equipment,,, We are going to Hell in a hurry, and most don't seem to care that the quality of life that was American is quickly passing.
It is all short-sighted, for profit, me first,,,
At least 10 years for minor crimes like violent assault-rape, so we can send them back to France,,,Then maybe 20-40 years for serious crimes like stealing payroll for years from all /most of the immigrant's employees, so we can send them back to Korea or Iran. And a first generation lifetime probationary period for serious crimes , like murder and terrorism, so we can send them back to Muslim countries,,, instead of paying massive amounts to 'properly' jail them.
Unlike the Founding Fathers, we are no longer desperate for just any warm bodies, or should not be. Why are we allowing low IQ India's in as full citizens, who work at gas stations and take forever to count a few paper money bills they are still not familiar with after years? And they are never on time!
If you have a Mexican drug cartel tattoo, you get deported!, with your whole state-side family, back to miserable Mexico! We don't have enough jobs for all these illegals, let alone those born here legally. And we don't have the tax base anymore to pay even for their jail time.
The Republicans want to kill Medicare and end most government, but for a very expensive military. If they win any seats in 2012 you can expect more potholes, less health care , and a more toxic public environment, with continuing sewage spills/dumping in San Francisco Bay and old coal plants that still, still, do not have modern stack scrubbing equipment,,, We are going to Hell in a hurry, and most don't seem to care that the quality of life that was American is quickly passing.
It is all short-sighted, for profit, me first,,,
PG&E's Citi-bank Debit card to credit / reward customers for less gas use,,,IS A PAIN!! Many places will not accept it as partial payment, so unless the amt you owe at the register is less than "$25", THE CARD IS REFUSED !!
Does the Cal-PUC care? Not likely,,,
We are pawns to the N.Cal. power company.
8 people DIED,,,38 homes BURNED,,,and yet not one Executive has gone to jail. White collar crime, murder, is so tolerated here in the USA. What a shame. In France, you may forcefully assault and rape a woman,,,no problem. Here, a corporation, the Supreme Court 'says' is the same as a person, can kill 8 PEOPLE, yet NO ONE IS HELD RESPONSIBLE, TRIED, CONVICTED, AND SENT TO JAIL FOR A LONG LONG TIME.
We are pawns to the N.Cal. power company.
8 people DIED,,,38 homes BURNED,,,and yet not one Executive has gone to jail. White collar crime, murder, is so tolerated here in the USA. What a shame. In France, you may forcefully assault and rape a woman,,,no problem. Here, a corporation, the Supreme Court 'says' is the same as a person, can kill 8 PEOPLE, yet NO ONE IS HELD RESPONSIBLE, TRIED, CONVICTED, AND SENT TO JAIL FOR A LONG LONG TIME.
"pureclease3000", colon cleane formula, out of Murray, Utah: BEWARE !!
A late night tv mistake,,,ordered with my AX, a free trial order with full refund ability,,,and was charged $79 for 60 pills on a Visa account i do not have.
BEWARE,,,BEWARE,,,oops
BEWARE,,,BEWARE,,,oops
Don't buy the 150ft hose, item 224 632, at Home Depot, as it will massively kink and tear holes in itself ON THE FIRST USE
THIS IS A TERRIBLE HOSE, yellow and grey label with black and white writing.
"made in taiwan"...green 150ft hose.
"made in taiwan"...green 150ft hose.
Last year, 2010, you had to tape both ends of alkaline batteries to RECYCLE THEM , that was the FEDERAL RULE!! Talk about stupid;Now you don't have to, and OSH accepts them so don't toss in your trash as TOXIC LANDFILL.
Seems the Feds were afraid they would catch on fire if not taped with masking tape on both the + and - ends,,,
Yeah, like that is a major problem, not that MOST PEOPLE JUST TOSS THEM ON THE STREET OR IN THE TRASH !!
Please properly recycle,,,we all live on the same planet, right?
Yeah, like that is a major problem, not that MOST PEOPLE JUST TOSS THEM ON THE STREET OR IN THE TRASH !!
Please properly recycle,,,we all live on the same planet, right?
Thursday, May 19, 2011
May and crowded June are the best times to visit Yosemite. SO WHY ARE YOU STILL NOT THERE?
The waterfalls of the valley start to diminish in late June,,,
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
(warning:this is real news)The 100TH BAY TO BREAKERS is on Sunday at 7AM,,, and CalTrain does not have the Brains to RUN A LOCAL TRAIN TO GET US ALL TO THE CITY FOR THE PRE-RACE PARTY WELL BEFORE 6AM!!
Caltrain is a huge expensive now-quality system that is in budget trouble, so you might thiink they would be interested in making more money and providing a very valuable public transit service, like a special LOCAL TRAIN TO ALL STATIONS THAT WILL GET TO S.F. WELL BEFORE 6AM ,,,SO WE CAN WALK OVER A MILE TO THE START,,, AND ENJOY THE PRE-RACE PARTY,,,LIKE A BIG BIG BIG TRAIN, ONE, WITH ARRIVAL AT LIKE 5AM IN S.F.
But ,,, no ,,, we have to put up with old original bad-caltrain thinking ,,, remember the ORANGE upholstery, dirty tinted windows , and rude unhappy unsmiling conductors in the late 80s and early 90s?
As i said back then, a high school student could run CALTRAIN better than the mgmt we got now !! Stupid,,,stupid ,,, stup-id . Period.
But ,,, no ,,, we have to put up with old original bad-caltrain thinking ,,, remember the ORANGE upholstery, dirty tinted windows , and rude unhappy unsmiling conductors in the late 80s and early 90s?
As i said back then, a high school student could run CALTRAIN better than the mgmt we got now !! Stupid,,,stupid ,,, stup-id . Period.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Will California and the S.F. Bay Area EMBARRASS all of us again with POOR PREP. FOR MAJOR EVENTS, like 2010 Fleet Week hours long traffic jam in the S.F. Fisherman's Wharf area?
California is poised to FLOP!! again!!: CalTrain does not have a local train to arrive from all Silicon Valley and Peninsula stops before 5am or even 6am with the race start of the 100th BAY TO BREAKERS Spring fun run (the pro runners are just a nuisance and can run off a pier for all most care) a mile and half away at 7am. Does BART(70mph system failed experiment in not buying a Japanese bullet train system) have enough early large trains from the East Bay? Doubtful with incompetent mgmt that fired the train cleaners 3 years ago, the last time i rode.
Oh, right, the media avoids the obvious potential disaster ,,, until it is OFFICIAL ,,, and they can "report" it , like they did with all the close-ups of the 1989 fires in the Marina District to Scare-shock news-value people ,instead of a more honest perspective from the Golden Gate Bridge or Pacific Heights.
Another poor prep. Bay Area disaster recently?
No problem: the 50 anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in the spring of 1987. I was there, so no johnny-come-lately-Historian pomposity here. The evening tv news in the night before broadcasts said that the S.F. Mayor, Diane Feinstein, had closed the Golden Gate Bridge to cars, a bridge she and the State do not own by the way, and 2 state freeways , 1 and 101, and only "200 to 300 celebrants were expected",,,!!. I drove up the peninsula and got there early and watched the crowd on a beautiful spring day grow to estimated 800,000 on the bridge from the foot high rail separating the sidewalk then from the road at the south end of the bridge. We were packed as tight as a can of sardines and there were fights when people could not leave, esp. to even go to a bathroom!! Not near enough cops to keep the people moving across the bridge in opposite directions like cars, in fact damn few cops, which is common in SF. When people far away called 911 with fears of the bridge collapsing from the big sag in the middle, only then did the CHP and other cops show up in force to quickly "party over" for no reason, until we got home and saw the huge sag with our own eyes!!
Next is the 100th running /walking of the BAY TO BREAKERS on Sunday 15 May 2011. Expect too many to drive and too many to not find parking in SF. And expect all the State and Bay Area politicians to say they did not 'expect' such a crowd , most say over 100,000 are coming from far states and wide!!
Then , next ,,, we can embarrass ourselves by not being ready for Larry E.'s-Oracle's AMERICA'S CUP sailing race, expected to bring 'a Billion$ to the Bay'. We Californians voted for high speed rail, but expect huge car-jams, frustrated visitors,,, "the usual".
Where is that thing we use to call ,,, "Political Leadership"?!!
Embarrassing, isn't it?
Oh, right, the media avoids the obvious potential disaster ,,, until it is OFFICIAL ,,, and they can "report" it , like they did with all the close-ups of the 1989 fires in the Marina District to Scare-shock news-value people ,instead of a more honest perspective from the Golden Gate Bridge or Pacific Heights.
Another poor prep. Bay Area disaster recently?
No problem: the 50 anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in the spring of 1987. I was there, so no johnny-come-lately-Historian pomposity here. The evening tv news in the night before broadcasts said that the S.F. Mayor, Diane Feinstein, had closed the Golden Gate Bridge to cars, a bridge she and the State do not own by the way, and 2 state freeways , 1 and 101, and only "200 to 300 celebrants were expected",,,!!. I drove up the peninsula and got there early and watched the crowd on a beautiful spring day grow to estimated 800,000 on the bridge from the foot high rail separating the sidewalk then from the road at the south end of the bridge. We were packed as tight as a can of sardines and there were fights when people could not leave, esp. to even go to a bathroom!! Not near enough cops to keep the people moving across the bridge in opposite directions like cars, in fact damn few cops, which is common in SF. When people far away called 911 with fears of the bridge collapsing from the big sag in the middle, only then did the CHP and other cops show up in force to quickly "party over" for no reason, until we got home and saw the huge sag with our own eyes!!
Next is the 100th running /walking of the BAY TO BREAKERS on Sunday 15 May 2011. Expect too many to drive and too many to not find parking in SF. And expect all the State and Bay Area politicians to say they did not 'expect' such a crowd , most say over 100,000 are coming from far states and wide!!
Then , next ,,, we can embarrass ourselves by not being ready for Larry E.'s-Oracle's AMERICA'S CUP sailing race, expected to bring 'a Billion$ to the Bay'. We Californians voted for high speed rail, but expect huge car-jams, frustrated visitors,,, "the usual".
Where is that thing we use to call ,,, "Political Leadership"?!!
Embarrassing, isn't it?
Monday, May 16, 2011
An open letter to President Obama: May2011, San Francisco does not "NEED" a subway from the ballpark to downtown, so WHY are we wasting valuable tax money ?!
Talk about a total waste of money!: a subway from the ballpark to Union Square and the Financial District. We have a Mediterranean climate and it is only about a mile or less to walk on relatively safe city streets. So why waste all this money,,,when our roads need repaving more to fill all the potholes in California, and CalTrain is in trouble, and there is so little money for the recent ballot passed "fast train" from LA to Sac. to SF ??
Please, Mr. President, STOP this public money WASTE immediately !!
San Francisco may Want this 'public works project', but no one can prove it is Needed. What a waste!!
Please, Mr. President, STOP this public money WASTE immediately !!
San Francisco may Want this 'public works project', but no one can prove it is Needed. What a waste!!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Glasgow, Scotland has public streets closed to cars and free pedestrian access;San Francisco closes public streets and says "REGISTRATION REQUIRED" PAY $75 in violation of their own ISCOTT city rules, for the 100th Bay to Breakers celebration . SF has crossed the line, for a City dependent on Tourism as its #1 income.
In the days immediately before the race on Sunday,15 May 2011, public radio station KQED has a radio show with the B2B race manager, Sam Singer, representing both the sponsor, Zazzle, and the L.A.-based race mgmt company, AEG, who says the SFPD will turn away anyone without a $75 race bib on the day of the race trying to walk on car-closed public streets race course,,, and that the North (Golden Gate Park) Panhandle Association has volunteers also on the start line street 'pens'!! area and race course to ,along with the Police, ask anyone without a $75 bib to leave the highly fenced, public property, street course!! This is a direct violation of the spirit of the race for decades and San Francisco's own ISCOTT rule/law allowing public access to all car-closed public streets!!
I paid the full fee for years in the 1970s and 1980s and even volunteered ,for free one year, to work the race start when the old locally owned Examiner and accepting of rich and poor,balanced attitude company ran the race, instead of the arch-conservative creeps who own it now. Where is the new Mayor , Mr. Lee? Where is the S.F. Board of Supervisors?! How could all the 70% of SF who rent or lease , the 'have not' non-owners of houses and apt.buildings, let this happen in a City famous for Tolerance of Gays,,, Chinese,,, Italians,,, all nationalities, cultures, and religions?? Look at all the rude scary discrimination on the official Bay2Breakers website !!
The race has been limited, officially, to "55,000 paid entrants", instead of allowing for decades lots of people to walk the course and welcome them, before the race, to do so. Yes, i heard that the SFPD relented, at the last minute!!, this morning in turning away anyone without a $75 bib,which would have been a direct violation of City law. And something like 110,000 people celebrated Spring and the City of San Francisco together, in peace and respect and commonality.
But many of us were warned away and scared away,threatened!!, by the heavy handed mgmt of the ultra-conservative AEG , who has no place running/owning such a public gathering event(listen to the public radio archives on KQED),,, and the neighborhood associations like the Panhandle Assoc. made up probably of home owners, the 'haves' in this terrible American economy, with homes they knowingly bought on the race course and leave on race day,they say, instead of staying to protect their lawn from someone peeing in their yard along the same official 12k race course!! How discriminatory, irresponsible, and unfriendly.
I was ready to walk last ,in the rain and lightning even, peacefully and respectfully, to Celebrate San Francisco and Spring,,, but that drive at 4am, PAY to park at 5am, walk to start at 6am for pre-race party, and watch the fun cooperative friendly crowd with usually only a few bad actors run jog and walk across the City. I even tried to pay the FULL $75 last week and was told the 'race course was full'. How rude and illegal!!
San Francisco has too long a history of pandering to the rich and super-rich , the 'haves' who could afford to pay $75/gallon of gasoline and not bat an eye. Alamo Square has been closed to tour buses stopping for decades,,, because the local owners of expensive houses/ apt.buildings around a famous tourist attraction by the 7 most famous Victorian houses in the City consider it 'their own PRIVATE front yard'. And Bay st.-Marina blvd.-Doyle drive on the N. edge of the City in front of the Marina neighborhood mansions has been closed for too long to tour buses when the #1 business of SF is tourism.
The City of San Francisco has stumbled. Let us all hope it regains its tolerance, reasonable acceptance, and warm welcoming Spirit of old.
I paid the full fee for years in the 1970s and 1980s and even volunteered ,for free one year, to work the race start when the old locally owned Examiner and accepting of rich and poor,balanced attitude company ran the race, instead of the arch-conservative creeps who own it now. Where is the new Mayor , Mr. Lee? Where is the S.F. Board of Supervisors?! How could all the 70% of SF who rent or lease , the 'have not' non-owners of houses and apt.buildings, let this happen in a City famous for Tolerance of Gays,,, Chinese,,, Italians,,, all nationalities, cultures, and religions?? Look at all the rude scary discrimination on the official Bay2Breakers website !!
The race has been limited, officially, to "55,000 paid entrants", instead of allowing for decades lots of people to walk the course and welcome them, before the race, to do so. Yes, i heard that the SFPD relented, at the last minute!!, this morning in turning away anyone without a $75 bib,which would have been a direct violation of City law. And something like 110,000 people celebrated Spring and the City of San Francisco together, in peace and respect and commonality.
But many of us were warned away and scared away,threatened!!, by the heavy handed mgmt of the ultra-conservative AEG , who has no place running/owning such a public gathering event(listen to the public radio archives on KQED),,, and the neighborhood associations like the Panhandle Assoc. made up probably of home owners, the 'haves' in this terrible American economy, with homes they knowingly bought on the race course and leave on race day,they say, instead of staying to protect their lawn from someone peeing in their yard along the same official 12k race course!! How discriminatory, irresponsible, and unfriendly.
I was ready to walk last ,in the rain and lightning even, peacefully and respectfully, to Celebrate San Francisco and Spring,,, but that drive at 4am, PAY to park at 5am, walk to start at 6am for pre-race party, and watch the fun cooperative friendly crowd with usually only a few bad actors run jog and walk across the City. I even tried to pay the FULL $75 last week and was told the 'race course was full'. How rude and illegal!!
San Francisco has too long a history of pandering to the rich and super-rich , the 'haves' who could afford to pay $75/gallon of gasoline and not bat an eye. Alamo Square has been closed to tour buses stopping for decades,,, because the local owners of expensive houses/ apt.buildings around a famous tourist attraction by the 7 most famous Victorian houses in the City consider it 'their own PRIVATE front yard'. And Bay st.-Marina blvd.-Doyle drive on the N. edge of the City in front of the Marina neighborhood mansions has been closed for too long to tour buses when the #1 business of SF is tourism.
The City of San Francisco has stumbled. Let us all hope it regains its tolerance, reasonable acceptance, and warm welcoming Spirit of old.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
May 2011: Mitt Romney is 'running' for President in 2012, Really? Scary.
Mr. Mitt Romney was officially in charge of the USA 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, and should have been fired!! As a hired bus driver, i also blame the IOC and the USOC!! He and they hired a transportation coordination company-sleazoids- who lied to us in recruiting in the SFBayArea with "$18+/hr pay" and "no more than 10-12hrs / day work schedules". We drove over 2 days to get there and they then say "oh, your pay is half of what we said cuz you are working from 6am-2am, every day, regardless of the federal 8hrs off-continuous to sleep per day safety rule!!
The east SLC apt was a dump and i could only get 2 sheets and one blanket IN THE WINTER with snow on the ground, tho at 7000' Park City there was a news-ban snow drought of only 2ft. i drove my minibus all over town looking in Salt Lake City for blankets, electric blankets and big warm comforters,,, but the stores were already and then ,DURING THE OLYMPICS, pulling all that off the shelves and putting up ,,, swimsuits for Summer!! (big group laugh at SLC)
I worked for arrogant Sports Illustrated(never again), instead of friendly and generous Nike, for a week until i could not longer stay safe and awake and quit and flew home to the SFBayArea. Many other professional commercial-license bus drivers did as well; Feel free to call Hotdogger Bus of SoCal to verify that their ENTIRE COMPANY quit!!
Mitt, did you serve the standard 8 yrs as an officer in ANY branch of the U.S. Military? No?
Mr. Mitt Romney, you are no leader to me. Take your pretty wife and go home.
The east SLC apt was a dump and i could only get 2 sheets and one blanket IN THE WINTER with snow on the ground, tho at 7000' Park City there was a news-ban snow drought of only 2ft. i drove my minibus all over town looking in Salt Lake City for blankets, electric blankets and big warm comforters,,, but the stores were already and then ,DURING THE OLYMPICS, pulling all that off the shelves and putting up ,,, swimsuits for Summer!! (big group laugh at SLC)
I worked for arrogant Sports Illustrated(never again), instead of friendly and generous Nike, for a week until i could not longer stay safe and awake and quit and flew home to the SFBayArea. Many other professional commercial-license bus drivers did as well; Feel free to call Hotdogger Bus of SoCal to verify that their ENTIRE COMPANY quit!!
Mitt, did you serve the standard 8 yrs as an officer in ANY branch of the U.S. Military? No?
Mr. Mitt Romney, you are no leader to me. Take your pretty wife and go home.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
(warning:this is real news)The 100TH BAY TO BREAKERS is on Sunday at 7AM,,, and CalTrain does not have the Brains to RUN A LOCAL TRAIN TO GET US ALL TO THE CITY FOR THE PRE-RACE PARTY WELL BEFORE 6AM!!
Caltrain is a huge expensive now-quality system that is in budget trouble, so you might thiink they would be interested in making more money and providing a very valuable public transit service, like a special LOCAL TRAIN TO ALL STATIONS THAT WILL GET TO S.F. WELL BEFORE 6AM ,,,SO WE CAN WALK OVER A MILE TO THE START,,, AND ENJOY THE PRE-RACE PARTY,,,LIKE A BIG BIG BIG TRAIN, ONE, WITH ARRIVAL AT LIKE 5AM IN S.F.
But ,,, no ,,, we have to put up with old original bad-caltrain thinking ,,, remember the ORANGE upholstery, dirty tinted windows , and rude unhappy unsmiling conductors in the late 80s and early 90s?
As i said back then, a high school student could run CALTRAIN better than the mgmt we got now !! Stupid,,,stupid ,,, stup-id . Period.
It costs $9 round-trip for a 2 zone trip from San Mateo County to SF. I am willing to pay double, $20, for a special early train!! But 'no', CalTrain is not interested to one wise timed train vs 4 poorly scheduled late trains. At this rate the SFBayArea will never be Leadership and Organized ready for a major event like the Olympics.
It is like BART;With all this birthplace of the computer smarts and riches you would think we could make a transit system equal to or better than a Japanese off-the- shelf bullet train,,, but 'no'. Skill at one thing and its wealth do not favor success at most things.
But ,,, no ,,, we have to put up with old original bad-caltrain thinking ,,, remember the ORANGE upholstery, dirty tinted windows , and rude unhappy unsmiling conductors in the late 80s and early 90s?
As i said back then, a high school student could run CALTRAIN better than the mgmt we got now !! Stupid,,,stupid ,,, stup-id . Period.
It costs $9 round-trip for a 2 zone trip from San Mateo County to SF. I am willing to pay double, $20, for a special early train!! But 'no', CalTrain is not interested to one wise timed train vs 4 poorly scheduled late trains. At this rate the SFBayArea will never be Leadership and Organized ready for a major event like the Olympics.
It is like BART;With all this birthplace of the computer smarts and riches you would think we could make a transit system equal to or better than a Japanese off-the- shelf bullet train,,, but 'no'. Skill at one thing and its wealth do not favor success at most things.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
2012 Presidential Elections could learn alot from the current fiscal and financial deep red hole that CALIFORNIA is in! (but then That would be news!!)
California is broke, busted, dead in the water.
We are BILLIONS of dollars in debt. And as you may have heard , we are still doing REally Stupid Stuff like giving a major company for the working class in Brisbane TAX BREAKS to move to massive gang violence Fresno area,,,and destroy the Brisbane economy!!
It isn't just that we voted in fiscally and financially irresponsible Republican and Democrat Legislators to Sacramento. But if you watch "ENRON" the movie/dvd , we had a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR-a string of loser-republican governors who did not like the public and did very little public speaking to lead the entire state together- Grey DAVIS who promised us IF WE DEREGULATED the price of home gas and electric would go down. The energy market natural capitalist forces would do this by the rule of economic supply and demand. It sounded too good to be true,,, and it was.
We went from being the wealthy state with the best public K-12 schools, road and highway surface maintenance, and best bond rating in the USA ,,, to now our roads are full of potholes and we are rated one of the WORST in K_12 public schools, road and highways surfaces, and bond ratings. Last year the budget was again late, 25 of the last 30 years--MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST FLUSH SACRAMENTO AND START OVER FRESH?- and i cost us Californians something like 56 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY ,,, FOR 100 DAYS,,,so 100 x $56,000,000.00 ,,, and the really sad thing is , we do not have the tax base to be that financially frivolous anymore.
Yes, California is STILL making MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES, but with the Bush era tax cuts for the rich extended again and again after President Obama's election and then after his first 2 years, we are in terrible shape, with little hope, other than the new Governor, Jerry Brown, the only candidate who was not going to give away the rest of the state to the sole benefit of corporations. Thank GOD!! those 2 women lost!!
As i said, it would be news worthy if PBS discussed this hard difficult divisive-rich-vs-the rest of us issue,instead of the mind-numbing safe and boring and timid discussions of "is the mood changing in Pakistan after the assassination" ,,, I am very afraid Obama will continue to be too weak and we will make the same mistakes we have made here in California , but on a much bigger scale in the Nation.
The Democrats are good at doing next to nothing and the Republicans don't like the truth with their strong support of trickle down economics-failed!!- and deregulation-failed!!- and too big to fail- yep,FAILED and they say still threatens us with the real poor house nationhood like corrupt and incompetent Mexico.
But as long as the sun is still shining , we have to go to work to pay the bills. And our collective future does not look bright at all. Can we really postpone, again, the debt ceiling until ,,, August?! Congress is sooo irresponsible and we the Public are responsible for That.
We are BILLIONS of dollars in debt. And as you may have heard , we are still doing REally Stupid Stuff like giving a major company for the working class in Brisbane TAX BREAKS to move to massive gang violence Fresno area,,,and destroy the Brisbane economy!!
It isn't just that we voted in fiscally and financially irresponsible Republican and Democrat Legislators to Sacramento. But if you watch "ENRON" the movie/dvd , we had a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR-a string of loser-republican governors who did not like the public and did very little public speaking to lead the entire state together- Grey DAVIS who promised us IF WE DEREGULATED the price of home gas and electric would go down. The energy market natural capitalist forces would do this by the rule of economic supply and demand. It sounded too good to be true,,, and it was.
We went from being the wealthy state with the best public K-12 schools, road and highway surface maintenance, and best bond rating in the USA ,,, to now our roads are full of potholes and we are rated one of the WORST in K_12 public schools, road and highways surfaces, and bond ratings. Last year the budget was again late, 25 of the last 30 years--MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST FLUSH SACRAMENTO AND START OVER FRESH?- and i cost us Californians something like 56 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY ,,, FOR 100 DAYS,,,so 100 x $56,000,000.00 ,,, and the really sad thing is , we do not have the tax base to be that financially frivolous anymore.
Yes, California is STILL making MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES, but with the Bush era tax cuts for the rich extended again and again after President Obama's election and then after his first 2 years, we are in terrible shape, with little hope, other than the new Governor, Jerry Brown, the only candidate who was not going to give away the rest of the state to the sole benefit of corporations. Thank GOD!! those 2 women lost!!
As i said, it would be news worthy if PBS discussed this hard difficult divisive-rich-vs-the rest of us issue,instead of the mind-numbing safe and boring and timid discussions of "is the mood changing in Pakistan after the assassination" ,,, I am very afraid Obama will continue to be too weak and we will make the same mistakes we have made here in California , but on a much bigger scale in the Nation.
The Democrats are good at doing next to nothing and the Republicans don't like the truth with their strong support of trickle down economics-failed!!- and deregulation-failed!!- and too big to fail- yep,FAILED and they say still threatens us with the real poor house nationhood like corrupt and incompetent Mexico.
But as long as the sun is still shining , we have to go to work to pay the bills. And our collective future does not look bright at all. Can we really postpone, again, the debt ceiling until ,,, August?! Congress is sooo irresponsible and we the Public are responsible for That.
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