| | How Would You Fix CA?Page 2 of 26 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26) | I was born and raised here in CA and have gone from being extremely proud of where I came from to totally disgusted.
My opinion is that we are being squeezed with over burdensome environmental and business regulations, high taxes and an invasion of illegal immigration along with too much social engineering. The fix would be to put everything in reverse and undo the things that are bringing us down so low that the State is now giving out tickets and fines everywhere like sharks on a feeding frenzy.
I totally agree.
One thing I'd add though, is that we all like to vilify our politicians, and while we rightly do so, the problem also exists among us - which is a fundamental misunderstanding of how a successful economy works. We all get caught up in class-warfare, and other types of back-biting, over trying to divide the pie. What most do not realize, is that the way to solve things, isn't to divide the pie up more "fairly", but to MAKE MORE PIES.
In order for the most amount of help and good to be done, we need the economy to grow. This happens by inspiring business and entrepreneurship, not encouraging jealousy.
We are lost in a PC society that has people all being phony, and playing the victim, which has bred distrust amongst us all.
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Posted: 12/2/2011 9:46:07 AM |
ugggg.... can't comprehend. makes no sense. I can't grasp how a state filled with some of the smartest people in the country are so .... openly corrupt? Completely stupid? Blind? I don't know how to explain it.
You just explained it pretty well. | |
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Posted: 12/2/2011 8:40:56 PM | Oh man, what a list I have!! Preface though - I live in la-la land. None of this stuff would ever actually happen... but hey - a guy can dream ;)
Copy Wisconsin's law so the state isn't required to negotiate with ANY unions. Additionally, make California a right-to-work state.
Freeze all public-sector pensions based on current seniority. If you don't qualify for a pension now, you don't get one. If you do qualify for one, the clock stops and you get the amount you'd earn if you retired right now. The rest you can make up by saving for the future.
Eliminate all at-will employment distinctions between public sector employees and private ones. Eliminate implied contract and covenant of good faith stipulations in at-will employment law.
Cut the corporate tax rate in half.
Reduce all state fees for business permits/licenses to 1995 levels.
Reduce each government departments work force by 25%. Reduce the work force for legislative staff (office and committee) by 50%.
Reduce legislative per diems to 1995 levels.
Legalize all drugs, and strip law enforcement officers of the authority to detain individuals based only on simple possession. This would drastically reduce prison overcrowding. Also, eliminate the death penalty - not for moral or anti-capital punishment reasons... I'd actually like to see it expanded, but since the State Supreme Court has to review all capital cases, it's a huge burden on the court system, a huge expense to house inmates, and not something we can afford to hang onto right now.
Put inmates to work - chain gangs.
Privatize unemployment insurance. Same with Medi-Cal.
Freeze all future spending projects (high-speed rail, BART expansion, etc.) for 20 years.
Education - Rate teachers by performance, not tenure. Assign teachers with education objectives for each academic year, and evaluate by performance. Since there's no bargaining with the teachers union AND public employees are at-will, you can get rid of bad teachers and keep the best ones. Eliminate all the state exit exams. Eliminate college loan programs.
Repeal the minimum wage.
Eliminate CARB.
Eliminate CalOSHA. I'm actually not against this department, but figure we don't need it if there's a federal OSHA.
One word: redistricting. (like I said, I'm in la-la land) :)
Re-direct funds collected from traffic parking tickets to 501(c)(3) organizations which have their primary location in California. Award funds based on a combination of things, including lowest administrative overhead percentage.
Require ALL politicians to have ALL meetings with lobbyists in open, publicly noticed and recorded meetings. NO meetings behind closed doors whatsoever.
Require any candidate for public office to publicly disclose all campaign contributions over $2500 at every single public appearance (debates, town all meetings, rally's, etc.).
Eliminate sales tax. Keep income tax. Prohibit any municipality from imposing any type of tax on sales or service (goodbye to the SF health tax).
Make income from tips tax-free.
Require pre-nups before granting a marriage license. This should drastically reduce court costs in divorce proceedings. There's other social-contract reasons for this that I won't get into.
Privatize the freeways. Reduce state gas tax.
There's a plethora of common interest development laws that need to get kicked to the curb. Too many to list.
Require county licensing to breed domesticated animals, and place limits on the number of animals that a licensee can breed. Out-of-state purchases require a permit. Goal is shut down puppy mills and reduce costs to house/euthanize animals at the county level.
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Posted: 12/2/2011 9:17:22 PM |
We all get caught up in class-warfare,
I really agree with this. However, I have a massively huge problem. My problem is that I have, over the years, found that conspiracy theories are not likely real as it would be so absolutely improbable for that number of people required to make a conspiracy succeed to actually work together long enough to pull it off.
However, I'm seriously confused.... If you spend any amount of time in conspiracy land (which I think is fun) you see the dots. You see them connected to real people and real events and real things. You know that it is most likely just 'appearance' so you live your life. But .... No really BUT what if it turns out that some of the tin foils hats are right?
At what point over the last 41 years of your life did you ever consider 'Class Warfare' to be a valid term for describing your living environment?
At what point did you ever think that 'pies' should be considered for division {outside of math class}?
I just ran across a 'conspiracy' page that links Newt G to communism and for the life of me I can't find fault with the reasoning.
In order for that to be true it would require the acceptance of the conspiracy that everything we believe to be true is false and that 40+ years ago the conspiracy of communism was real and active all along.
Where do you go from there? Not believe it? Accept it? Think there must be another explanation?
How does this relate to California... Well, Isn't CA just a bit ahead of the rest of the country in all of these "progressive" areas? I've never had 'friends' declare themselves as 'socialist' until this past two years. Am I the one that's under a rock and totally oblivious to the 'conspiracy'?
I don't know... I do know that a very few people that I know see 'class warfare' as just the beginning.
All I can really say any more is WTF
Dec 21'st 2012... 'Conspiracy theories are fun' | |
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Posted: 12/8/2011 9:25:55 PM | It's coming......
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2011 12:13:53 PM | By "generous gifts from the public treasury", are you including the bank bailouts and the lavish tax breaks that primarily benefit the 1% of the population currently controlling most of the wealth? You know, those tax breaks extended from the Bush era, that now make up nearly half the deficit (and were supposed to create "jobs")?!
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Posted: 12/9/2011 12:39:39 PM |
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
Which is exactly the reason why the United States is NOT a democracy. However, with the OWS crap and the liberalist demands for equality of existence the most logical step in reaching their goal is by bringing in more democracy.
Every time I hear Presidents say we are spreading 'democracy' it makes me cringe. It has become popular culture to think we are a democracy. Makes it all the easier to say, ‘there is a problem with our democratic processes and 'my vote doesn't count'. How do you fix it? Let's all have a vote!
We are screwed right now because the people we have elected to function in the government are inept, or incompetent, or corrupted. The two sides of liberal vs. conservative are deadlocked and neither side can allow the other to proceed without a fundamental change of the entire system so there is an impasse. The longer the impasse exists the more ferocious the opposition becomes. The more ferocious the opposition the more forceful the change will be. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2011 12:54:05 PM | No offense, but complaining is the easy part. So what's the answer (besides blaming "OWS crap and the liberalist demands for equality of existence")?!
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Posted: 12/9/2011 12:56:34 PM | I just posted a thought in another topic that I've never seen anywhere...
So, what would people think of a compromise that looked a bit like this:
Federal government cut taxes drastically across the board and allow the states to pick up more responsibilities. If federal taxes were cut by 15% and state taxes were increased by 10% how would that change the balance of power?
That would reduce the federal government, give the states more authority and capital to address issues and put control back to the local level where now people get to vote on how they want their state run.
We can vote on state initiatives...
Makes more sense than free college for all... | |
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Posted: 12/9/2011 4:36:19 PM | As far as the politics are concerned, or any kind of conflict is concerned for that matter, there are almost always more than to sides to every story and more than two solutions to a problem, etc., etc., etc.
The 2 party system we have is ridiculous in terms of the premise of each party. Democrats want less .gov when it comes to social regulations and more .gov when it comes to business regulations. Republicans want the opposite. Both parties are inconsistent. All that does is add to the confusion and finger pointing. I want less .gov period. I want just enough .gov to enforce the minimum amount of laws to keep our right to pursue happiness from infringing on another’s right to pursue happiness. In a free society like that the down side is failure and there are always going to be people that simply are unable to survive on their own-people that can't help themselves. We should take care of those people and let everyone else sleep in the bed that they make. This society has a horrible entitlement mentality.
Here's an example of regulations in CA that are too heavy handed. In CA a non licensed contractor is called a handyman and a handyman is not allowed to take on any job over $800.00. You can't support a family on an arrangement like that. In TX the maximum sized job a non licensed contractor can take on is $10,000.00. You can support a family an arrangement like that.
In CA a licensed contractor can loose his license without a hearing of any kind whatsoever.
The DMV won’t give out extensions for smog certificates any more upon simply requesting one.
Illegal immigration is like a cancer and it is draining us of all of our resources.
These are just some things I know about from personal experience. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2011 9:49:31 PM | I would die of happiness if something was finally, once and for all, done to get rid of every last Illegal Immigrant in this state. Only people who've lived here awhile really understand what it's like to put with them. Over 30 years for me. Completely sick of it.
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Posted: 12/10/2011 9:04:49 AM |
In CA a licensed contractor can loose his license without a hearing of any kind whatsoever.
Well most contractors claim they have no employees to avoid having to pay workmens comp. All their "subs" are supposed to be insured. But they are not, and often found standing around Home Depot.
Mexico not only has cornered the drug market in California, but also the construction market and a large percentage of the governmetn jobs. One day I was driving by a construction site of a new building..the workers were flying a Mexican flag on top. Not kidding. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2011 10:15:59 AM | | Silly question, but how exactly does one know that someone's an "illegal immigrant".... like, do you go around and ask for everyone's birth certificate or green card? Or is it just that any "mez-kin" these days is now presumed to be an "illegal"? | |
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Posted: 12/10/2011 10:23:54 AM | | Just move out, abandon ship, the state is sinking fast! | |
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Posted: 12/10/2011 10:55:39 AM |
Just move out, abandon ship, the state is sinking fast!
To where? Someplace that no one wants to migrate to? It is not just here. It is global. Just change the race. Look on YouTube for "My Tram Experience". There is a thread on the UK forum about it. Look up the elections in Sweden. In comparison we are behind the world in what could be happening. Although there were attempts to stir up race riots here not too long ago.
The simple answer is to stop voting for the idiots that are doing this stuff on purpose. You may not have kept voting for the same people that are in office either but apparently over half of California does. Would be interesting to get a number of registered / likely voters in the state and compare that with the number of unionized workers and see how close that number is to 50%.
However, I have most of my coworkers in San Francisco. I can tell you that it is almost across the board liberal with many openly socialist. So, probably have to include most of the tech sector in with liberal. They are all smarter than everyone else.
edit: Well, that didn't go anywhere.
http://goo.gl/5x7MS
44% likely voters are democrat
35 % likely voters are Republican
http://www.bls.gov/ro9/unionca.htm
18% of California is represented by union
So, it is our friends that are smarter than all of us. Thanks. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2011 8:41:56 PM | You already know that is only temporary :)
Consider it Vegas! | |
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Posted: 12/12/2011 8:17:45 AM | [qupte]Silly question, but how exactly does one know that someone's an "illegal immigrant".... like, do you go around and ask for everyone's birth certificate or green card? Or is it just that any "mez-kin" these days is now presumed to be an "illegal"?
It's pretty easy. Just try to speak to them in English. If they can't carry on a descent conversation then they are more than likely illegal. Being in construction for over 30 years I can tell you that is a real good clue. | |
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Posted: 12/12/2011 1:27:36 PM |
It's pretty easy. Just try to speak to them in English. If they can't carry on a descent conversation then they are more than likely illegal. Being in construction for over 30 years I can tell you that is a real good clue.
Or just yell INS! and flash a badge..if they run, they are illegal.
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Posted: 12/12/2011 3:24:41 PM | 1. Remove all pensions from gov't workers.
City,State & Fed. All Countys too. We just can't afford it, there isn't that much money in the World.
2. Outlaw "double dipping."
3. No more benefits for illegal aliens. No schooling for their "anchor babies." In fact, deportation of all illegals.
4. Close 90% of State offices that are only there to punish success.
5. Get rid of "automatic benefits" for prisoners. Deathrow inmates should be disposed of the next business day.
6.Remove 90% of the 41,000 California vehice Codes. Really, do we need forty one thousand laws to drive a car? Really?
7. Remove regulations on businesses, (and keep exsisting) businessses from fleeing the State. (or country...)
There, I fixed California. What's next? | |
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Posted: 12/12/2011 10:39:58 PM | | ^^^^^I think you pegged a lot of the problems with a bullseye. next of course is the Fed. | |
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Posted: 12/13/2011 1:03:25 PM | ^^^^^
And all the libtards in California are going to go for something like that? | |
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Posted: 12/13/2011 6:43:31 PM | | Even if Moonbeam was not in, the current legislature won't let that happen. | |
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Posted: 12/14/2011 9:35:50 AM | | Right now those of us that agree with that appear to be out numbered. I can only hope we are the silent majority or the sleeping giant. Otherwise we're never going to get out of this mess. It's difficult to leave this state because my kids are here and in NV which is in no better shape than CA. All I can hope is that enough people get disgusted that they get out to the voting booth and vote out all of the incumbents and replace them with the right kind of representatives next time around. | |
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