[Brando]

Our systems here have become too bloated. They still want to spend money like Prop 13 never happened, like the .com bust was fake, like everyone here is above the water financially.

CA's answer to financial problems is to "seek more revenue". That's right, bend over and take the tax hike. I've heard that in Los Angeles (county? city?) $.85 of every $1 in tax revenue goes to pay employee salaries, pensions and benefits.

No wonder the roads are so crappy; the schools so defunct; highways are congested; sales tax is 9.75% -- The highest in the country!

The bill is coming for all of the social[ist] programs this state offers and the fat administrations. In what other county in another state does a County Board Supervisor get $3M as a "discretionary fund"? Cut out the bloated middle management, "administration" (that's for the public schools), sedentary paper-pushing cubicle sheep and get to the basics.

We don't need a program for semi-disabled non-legal residents applying for a scholarship to Pasadena's community college. Subsidized both state and federally.

Stop spending like its 1999. And make public unions illegal. They could never get the same types of benefits programs at a private company (limited assets) but somehow they think it's perfectly alright in the public sector (theoretically unlimited assets [the private sector pays]).