Inland Utopia

Democratic Party state legislators got their priorities wrong in Sacramento. The state budget and job creation should be the ultimate priority instead of the distractions of plastic bag bans and boycotts of Arizona. While the Republican Party State Senate minority leader should get off his soapbox of banning marriage equality and get on-board on fixing the state’s budget crisis.

I would like representatives that actually are focused on the big issue that means most, the economy. I would like California to be a place where business owners want to set up shop in, not flee away from. We need fewer regulations that kill jobs in a state with one of the worst unemployment rates in the nation.

We need to promote private sector industry so they could provide the employment opportunities that will bring forth tax revenue for the public services the people in California rely upon such as education and law enforcement so we can afford to fund our budget. A true economic recovery does not exist with public sector jobs alone.

The people of our communities need to speak out to our representatives and tell them they want Senator Dutton’s private sector job creation package brought back and passed as soon as possible and no more distractions while we are late on another state budget.

Discussing what was talked about on the John and Ken show, the labor unions of California have decided to tell the Spanish language community that they are being played for as suckers due to Meg saying one thing to the English speakers and another to the Spanish speakers.

We are living in an instant news cycle where people can easily find out for themselves the real story instead of relying on political advertisements for their information. We have John and Ken with their 25 hours of week of broadcasting, there is one major lesson as reported in the Los Angeles Times as what one member of the duo stated "Don’t get into a fight with two guys who have 25 hours to fill each week."

Many of my friends and family members are disgusted by Meg Whitman and even though the idea of a third Jerry Brown term may make long time Californians sick, at least he is honest about his policies and we will not get a third term of Arnold Schwarzenegger where he had no consistent views.

Robert wrote a diary on the site he is a regular diarist for at the Calitics blog reflecting about California’s unemployment rate. Here is my response to his diary.

I do not see anything about a vision for helping to create private sector jobs as well. I know firing public sector employees would cause more economic instability, but we need to learn how to create a business climate that would make private sector businesses want to take root in California or expand their existing businesses so we could get tax revenue to help keep those public sector employees employed.

It would be a great day for our state if we read in the news about 84 companies who moved to our state for business or expanded their operations here instead of the reverse.

There can be things we can do to help the economic recovery that does not require messing with overtime or lunch/break or worker protection regulations. Which is one thing I strongly disagree with Senator Dutton.

I do not expect us to spend the money we do not have. I do not want us to become Illinois. Maybe Proposition 1A would of been a good idea, protect our public services, and save money for the next rainy day. I thought we are not allowed to keep budget deficits compared to the federal government.

The cavalier attitudes of the Republican nominees in California and Nevada telling the unemployed let them eat cake is very counter productive. I have more respect for Reid than Sharon Angle even though both parties could of have nominated different people. We need to stand united where the public sector and the private sector should work together in building a stronger economy for our state. It will take shared sacrifice where both sides will have to lose something for the stability of our state.

This is the ballot measure that will lower the passage to 50%+1 for taxes and budgets in California.

I am pondering voting Yes on Proposition 25.

Voting Yes on 25 would force the Republicans to run serious campaigns in all the districts with at least 34% Republican registration, not just their safe districts.

Voting Yes on 25 will realize that Republicans will have to be more mainstream in order to get the 41 members they need to get the speakers chair or budgets passed.

Voting Yes on 25 will either prove or refute the theory that higher taxes from the Democratic Party will help or kill our economy. The thing that I probably fear is if the higher taxes from the passage of 25 happens, voters are not likely to fire the Democratic Party anyways even if unemployment went to 15 or 20 percent due to all the nanny state taxes and regulations they propose.

The debate is only going to start. Right now it has strong support.

I supported DA Cooley in the Republican Primary due to him being attacked by the Traditional Values Collation and the National Organization for Marriage, but it seems likely I should have just voted for John Eastman instead if they were basically the same in theory.

I am thinking of my encouragement to DA Cooley to drop the idea of defending Proposition 8 as a budget cutting suggestion. California has a massive budget deficit, and it would be better to outsource the defense of Proposition 8 to the Alliance Defense Fund and the proponents of Proposition 8 who brought the ballot measure to the ballot since they are much wealthier than the state where they can get money from the Catholic Church and the Latter Day Saints.

And if the new Attorney General wants to strike a new tone in politics since he is known to be a bit more centrist than the base of his party, he could end up not defending or opposing the proposition since active opposition as a Republican would make him pelted by stones by Lou Sheldon and Brian Brown.

I do appreciate DA Cooley’s opposition against Proposition 8, but sometimes as a matter of principle if a law is unjust you have to stand aside.

Organizations such as Equality California PAC might be supporting DA Harris of San Francisco because she is 100% on the issues concerning LGBT equality, but honestly Kamala Harris is mediocre when it deals with issues that do not concern LGBT individuals such as her prosecutorial record. So in November if I do decide to support a major party candidate I am going to have to figure out what would have the greater good for the people of our state.

I wish both sides on the political aisle were able to work together an amicable compromise to be results oriented in helping to change the political culture in Sacramento. I wish Republican legislators could give up their quest to promote social values nanny state governance and Democrats give up their dreams of economic nanny state governance. We need to lay off the nanny and leave it to the individual to help in economic recovery in California. If Republicans were not so adversarial against gay people and other minority groups and Democrats start developing fiscal restraint and did not add bills that would drive up the cost of goods and services maybe we could get somewhere in helping to make Sacramento work for all of us.

We need to bring forth industry and entrepreneurs in our state to restore the tax base so we can provide opportunity to our people. If we are not able to do this, I do not want our state to become a failed one. Making sure that our state is business friendly, while keeping regulations to make sure the environment and workers do not get exploited should be the highest priority.

Both political parties need to understand that the way that the game is played right now is not going to do one difference. There are people who support most of what the Republican Party stands for, but believes they wage war against people instead of helping to solve the problems that face us today such as unemployment. However the Democratic Party is known to stand up for the little guy, and does recognize that government is helpful most of the time. However government cannot always grow each year Keynesian economics has not shown a difference with the trillions the Obama administration has spent. People do support improving our schools and making sure teachers are employed, but money has to be accounted for and spent appropriately for the public services we value most.

From the State Senator:

District Office Consolidation

Dear Neighbor,

In a cost cutting measure to save precious State budget dollars, effective March 1, 2010 the San Bernardino District Office for Senator Gloria Negrete McLeod will be closed and its operations merged with the District Office in Montclair.

Although we will be consolidated in Montclair, please be assured that my staff and I will continue to serve all residents of the 32nd Senate District.

I hear you Senator Dutton, California does need to put jobs first. However there is something the Republican Party establishment needs to do first before voters in California consider the party seriously. Republicans may have the solutions to bring back California’s economy back to life, but voters will find out there is a cost for this economic recovery.

For the voters who value equality where each Californian deserves equal rights regardless of sexual orientation they will find out that Republicans will put forth a wrecking crew ready to take down anti-discrimination laws, school safety regulation and partnership registration laws.

Yes, we do need to bring forth the private sector jobs to make California a successful place. However we need to make sure that personal and economic freedom is both respected. If we want the recovery it will take two to make it work and make it where we do not have to suffer in the name of recovery.

Unlike this video that I linked from the IT CROWD, in America the emergency number is still 911. Assemblywoman Torres thinks her constituents are stupid where they do not know how to dial 911. 911 is simple no matter if you speak English, Spanish or Chinese. If the emergency services were changed to 0118 999 881 999 119 725…3 then the Assemblywoman would definitely have a bill worth supporting.

Norma needs to get to approving bills proposed by Senator Dutton that create private sector jobs that generate the revenue that create the public sector jobs before creating nonsense legislation like this. The priority for the legislature is fix the economy first and worry about pet projects later.

Thank you Ray Moors of Chino for letting us know about this absurd piece of legislation in his letter in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.  The bill is AB 424 and hopefully Governor Schwarzenegger will veto this.

Recently Andy Pugno of the proponents of the recently passed Proposition 8 wrote an essay for FlashReport which had this statement.

"Really? So let me get this straight. If you lose a campaign because you can’t persuade the majority of people to rally behind you, then you have a constitutional right to nullify the votes of the majority."

Just because voters pass an initiative does not mean its right. Would the defense stand for Proposition 14 in 1964 legalizing housing discrimination? It was passed by the votes of the majority. Just because it’s passed by the majority does not mean the law is a good law.

So mob rule is the law of the day?

What about checks and balances?

The tyranny of the majority is not permitted to trample the rights of the minority.

Anyways, I thought a learned man such as Mr.Pugno would have read stuff like Federalist Number 10.

I thought it was the left wing who believed that they should teach the youth and people to be ignorant. When the traditionalists want to brainwash the people by thinking "How come the courts can overturn a law passed by California voters, it’s just not fair" That is why we have checks and balances just like how McCain Feingold got repealed. Or Proposition 14 (1964) repealed.

Liberty Fund sells loads of useful books that could teach the general public about politics, history and philosophy and it’s not the GLSEN Reading List! Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government  by James McClellan is a first start for our friends at ProtectMarriage, if I had the money I would send Andy Pugno and Frank Schubert a copy since they forgot about Federalist Number 10.