🚀 go-pugleaf

 >
 >In article <3591@labsline.win.net>,
 >PAT SHEAFFER <pat_sheaffer@labsline.win.net> wrote:
 >>	Is anyone following the problem with the County's funding
 >>that Pete started last year?  Last year the County officials
 >>met with us and said that Pete's Plan would force them to close
 >>parks, libraries, medical centers, paramedics, firestations, sherif
 >>stations, lifeguards, etc.   In fact, there were several lawsuits
 >>filed by the counties' of CA against that antic by Pete.  Imagine 
 >>that, the Counties suing the state!
 >
 >Yikes.  I'm no fan of Pete Wilson.  I don't plan to vote for him.  B
 >an incredibly simplistic analysis of the situation.  You can't get b
 >a turnip.  

Talk about simplistic!  <g>


 >You've got to cut somewhere.  

Maybe, how about firing brain-dead public "servants"?  How about
cutting "fat"?  It is always easiest to say, "tax more" and
"cut what people won't squalk about".  In surveys all over the country
it has been shown that light rail systems are really poor and
costly public transportation (at least compared to buses).  They never
make money, they loose it and have to be subsidized by county
or state.  Yet the state insists on building them in times of 
financial pinch!!!

=> This is *really* irresponsible money management <=

But the bureaucrats will say, "oh we can't stop that, blah blah, we'll
just have to close Medical Centers instead..."  (makes my blood boil!)


 >In case you haven't noticed
 >state has been seriously hurting for a while.  

Yep, to be sure, and you don't kill your children in hard times,
you get creative.  You know, 3 or 5 year fiscal budgets, like the
big (successful) corportaions do.

 >Now we can all come u
 >reasons why that's true, and maybe some of that is Wilson's fault; m
 >But to imply that Wilson single-handedly destroyed all that is good 
 >in California is absolutely absurd.  

For sure, but that snake, instead of coming to the people and trying
to work with us, or at least in the light of day, passed his budget
by calling "emergency" 24-hour legislature and senate sessions to
get his plans implemented.

 >By the way, Pasadena voted to keep the libraries open by attaching a
 >increase to property taxes.  Money well spent, in my opinion.  Inste
 >blaming Pete or the legislature, maybe more cities should be doing s
 >similar.

We did a similar thing too, but since Pete succeeded the first
time, he's back at it again.  He won't stop, since he "got away with
it" the first time, until we send him a REALLY strong message, or
throw him out of office.  And if you don't think that raising
local taxes will help drive local business away, well...

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