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urizenxvii · 07-28-2003, 12:00 PM

to borrow Michael Moore's ideas, I think that both major parties have lost the mandate of heaven, as it were. The Democrats are just Republicans that claim to care about the poor and needy. We Californians need to stand up and act. There's no reason that we should be in this situation, and it's as much Republicans' fault as it is Democrats'. California, if it was its own nation, would have somewhere around the 7th largest GDP in the world. We have high tech up the wazoo. And yet public schools took another hit. We're 48th in the nation for education. Can you believe that my former high school nearly had to declare BANKRUPTCY? This started with Prop. 13 a long time ago, and it's just continued. Last thing we need is another actor as governor, but it's fairly obvious that Gray Davis isn't exactly the best choice either. And Issa... *shudder* don't get me started. "I'm a millionaire, I should be able to balance the budget of a multiBILLION dollar economy that I know nothing about!"

Anyway, the budget has been a crisis for the last ten or fifteen years, because of all the graft and porkbarrel... and the fact that they tax the heck out of the poor and leave the rich alone... I don't personally know how to fix it all, but I'm sure that there has to be someone who does. It isn't anyone in Sacramento. Maybe we can get Nader to run...

07-28-2003, 12:00 PM	#38 (permalink)
urizenxvii Tilted Location: location, location	to borrow Michael Moore's ideas, I think that both major parties have lost the mandate of heaven, as it were. The Democrats are just Republicans that claim to care about the poor and needy. We Californians need to stand up and act. There's no reason that we should be in this situation, and it's as much Republicans' fault as it is Democrats'. California, if it was its own nation, would have somewhere around the 7th largest GDP in the world. We have high tech up the wazoo. And yet public schools took another hit. We're 48th in the nation for education. Can you believe that my former high school nearly had to declare BANKRUPTCY? This started with Prop. 13 a long time ago, and it's just continued. Last thing we need is another actor as governor, but it's fairly obvious that Gray Davis isn't exactly the best choice either. And Issa... shudder don't get me started. "I'm a millionaire, I should be able to balance the budget of a multiBILLION dollar economy that I know nothing about!" Anyway, the budget has been a crisis for the last ten or fifteen years, because of all the graft and porkbarrel... and the fact that they tax the heck out of the poor and leave the rich alone... I don't personally know how to fix it all, but I'm sure that there has to be someone who does. It isn't anyone in Sacramento. Maybe we can get Nader to run... __________________ BOOYAH!