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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Ah, but that is where you are wrong.  The answers are simple but folks don't 
want to look reality in the face!  The problem in this state is that the 
folks in Sac have begun to think like sheople.  I can par the budget down 
with a few quick swipes of the pen and bring it back into line without 
loosing any "services."  Does any state need NINETY commissions with 10 to 
20 people on them that get $100,000+ year to meet four times a year?  Plus 
per diem?  Zap, and we've gotten rid of over $100,000,000.  Which won't 
happen cause it might make Schwartzenazi's campaign manager unhappy since he 
invented every single of one of them right before he left office.

Zap the state only funded road projects that are bid outside.  Why in the 
world they are bid to begin with is beyond me when the state owns all the 
equipment AND has employees with the skills to do the roads IN HOUSE. 
Instant savings and saves a billion or so.

Par down CalTrans to a reasonable amount of people AND a reasonable wage 
($35/hr to flag cars don't cut it!).

Change all state employees to alternating 4/10s.  And get rid of the 
ridiculous number of paid holidays AND sick time.  It has been shown that 
alternating 4/10s cuts absenteeism down to almost zip!  And for those that 
don't know what alternating 4/10s is, you work 10 hr/day Monday-Thursday one 
week and the next week 10 hr/days Tuesday-Friday followed by 
Monday-Thursday, etc..  Every other week you have 4 days off.  That gives 
your employees plenty of elbow room to set up their doctor appointments, 
dentist appointments, school conferences, etc., etc., etc. without using 
sick leave or vacation days or simply calling in or no showing.  That would 
also allow for state offices to be open hours that would allow regular 
working folks to access their services!

The city I worked for never borrowed a cent for decades.  The city manager 
was a whiz and that's the way he liked it.  It was the only city in the 
state that did this and the city didn't suffer for it.  Now that city 
manager is gone and the city is just like any other city, borrowing like 
crazy.  It can be done IF folks work at it!

It's all in the mind set, Bob.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> Lynda; if I am completely honest with myself, I , like you, think in the 
> long run we 'could probably' be much better off with a complete collapse 
> of the current finacial system.  But, I'm almost your age, and I have 
> family and friends that I do not choose to see suffer.  I am not in a 
> position to help them more than a bit.
>
> And, the reason I modified with 'could probably' is because the same 
> stinking b*stards (or their sons and daughters) could very well be running 
> the 'new' order of things.  There is nothing wrong with using credit; I 
> have had access to more credit than I could use most of my life.  A eprson 
> just needs to be smart with its use.  The problem is when credit is 
> extended to those with no means or no-how to use , profit, and repay; and 
> then the d*mn goverment comes in, and changes the rules for everyone.
>
> You live in an important state that is beyond insolvent.  California was 
> once like Eden must have been dreamt.  You want your fellow Californians 
> to pay with cash?  How?  What cash?   The answers just are not 
> simple..........