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If you don't like the American system, you can leave, but it's gotten us pretty well so far.
Bankruptcy, insolvency, eroded freedoms, limited right, interference, obstruction, and harassment.
It is what the founding fathers fought for- A representative republic.
It ceased being a republic with the 17th Amendment.
You could try figuring out what words mean, you know. The Senate ceased being the representatives of the moneyed classes when they became nothing but officials elected by the same people voting for Congressmen. Hence, no longer a Republic, and not coincidentally, the Wilson Presidency is the time when the nation started going to hell in a go-cart.
I'm all for a representational republic. When are we going to get one?
Why is it relevant that they wear jeans and steel toed shoes?
You're anti-common man?
They just have to have monied snobs telling them what to do?
That's worked well, hasn't it?
And how do you know you'll get that? For all you know, you'll get someone who wears a suit for a living.
Possible, but chances are he's not a lawyer, and chances are sound that he knows what a dollar is worth to the man who earned it.
What we need to dispose of is the class of people willing to spend my money to get others to vote for them.
The state was spending beyond their means. I'll be the first to admit it. And I've proposed the above as realistic solutions.
And I've proposed even more realistic solutions, almost all of which boil down to "you! Get a job, ya bum!".
You have a problem with that?
Welfare is a fairly insignificant part of the budget. I mean, we're at the point right now where we're thinking about closing state parks and schools.
I mean, we're at the point where the state is refusing to cut the nonessentials and is insisting on cutting the essential services, like testing the rape kits, because the calculating callous cynical politicians are lying their asses off and know damn good and well that the more the cut of what's actually needed, the more they can push for higher taxes, and so long as the lap dog media that helped them get the state in this condition in the first place refuses to point out the budget items that are being spared while rape kits go untested, the more then can convince the ignorant voters that they just have to pass those tax hikes and resupply the politicians with their heroin.
Only saps can't see what's going on right now.
Only saps can't see that it's what happens with every budget cycle.
I never said the state was ran well. And politicians do lie and steal, that's why we pass transparency laws. Better than your ridiculous system of picking people at random.
Yes, clearly the present method has worked just wonderfully.
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It's impossible to assume you're a reasonable, realistic person who genuinely wants to fix things.
Your personal inabilities aren't my problem, are they?
I'm perfectly reasonable.
Government in free societies exist to protect freedoms, not perform au pair services.
Eliminate the au pair functions of the California State Government and the financial problem becomes one of cutting taxes enough to prevent huge budget surpluses.
All I get is a list of things you hate,
No. You got a list of au pair services, and not a conclusive list at that.
and draconian measures you want to enact,
Nothing draconian with telling the indians to preserve their own culture, if they care about it, etc etc etc. I'm from New York, I don't know squat about the stone age civilization the preceded the Spanish conquest of California and see no point in being paid to preserve relics of it.
without any regard to how much it'd save. We're talking, last I checked, 24 billion. Your "solutions" would be a drop in the bucket to that.
Kicking the invading hordes back to Mexico will save 4-5 billion annually alone.
Canceling all the nickel and dime activities will save tons.
working up to the two-bit and four-bit articles will save even more.
What is the state supposed to provide from general funds?
State police, state courts, highways and roads, water management issues, some stuff like that.
Well, roads are paid for by gasoline taxes, there should never be a shortfall there. State police are paid for by state taxes, and aren't a huge budget matter, regardless.
Parks? If the state wants to run parks, that's fine. Raise the day-use fee to that level necessary to balance annual traffic against annual operating costs.
Welfare? Well, ain't no one got a right to demand someone else's money, let them beg on the streets or move away, I'm easy.
Water management? Paid for by....water use fees. Oh, these things are soooo difficult to figure out, aren't they?
It's not a government matter, but you trying to get unions banned or whatever you're pushing for is pretty totalitarian.
No, goonion influence over politicians is the principal reason the state is in the condition it's in. Welcome to the reality of California politics.
Unions brought us minimum wage
See how much trouble and damage they've caused?
and 40-hour weeks.
Which were coming into being because of the increased productivity of worker due to technlogical advancement and goonions are claiming credit for something that was evolving naturally anyway without their interference.
Work places that wont kill you.
Yawn.
As if anyone wanted to read an infinite progression of stale goonion praises again.
I believe that when they're in office, they do have immediate transparancy. But what would you define as a bribe?
Nope. Bribe is a sefl-evident word not requiring translation into english. Buy a dictionary.
Are you trying to say I'm racist?
If you can't take the truth, don't spray the paint.
It's nice in theory, but what are you going to do with them?
Tents work. We can set them up right against the Mexican border and leave the southern side unsecured, so they can leave any time they want to.
Our prisons are overcrowded as it is, and just dumping them in Mexico isn't a real solution.
Hmmm....gets them out of our prisons, gets them out of our state, gets them out of our country, and puts them in the country causing the problem, and you claim it isn't a solution?
hahahahahahaha...
Besides, most of them just want to be able to work and make money and get by
Illegally.
The people obeying the immigration laws only want to be able to work, make money, and get by, too.
Why are you discriminating against them in favor of law breakers?