http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com they really do exist Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:24:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The thoughts and prayers of all people are with the families and soldiers at Fort Hood. They suffered a brutal attack today. One of their own, a Major, attacked soldiers at a graduation ceremony. Regardless of the reasons, this is a brutal attack. On their homebase, where the soldiers come to ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/11/05/thoughts-and-prayers-are-with-the-families-and-soldiers-at-fort-hood/ The water bond is headed to the voters. The price tag for the Legislature's water reform ... $11.14 billion. It is amazing that the Legislature even agreed on a water reform package. $125 million of this goes to the California Department of Forestry for forest restoration. How is this related to ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/11/05/water-bond-is-headed-to-the-voters/ Part of the problem with the California State Legislature is that they don't have effective budgeting experience. If you want to dispute this claim, think about what the Legislature does with budgeting. They wait until the state is in crisis to do anything, and even then they don't always work ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/11/04/what-kind-of-budget-reforms-does-california-need/ There is some slow progress on the water situation in California. Water is essential to life. Water is essential to growth, industry and commerce. Water needs to be able to be stored, transported and used in the same way that goods are stored, transported and used. So California needs some more ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/11/03/water-bond-now-at-999-billion/ When the cost to produce something increases, that means one of two things will happen: either the production levels will go down, or the price to consumers will increase. It is simple economics. When production costs increase, production goes down or prices go up. When production costs increase, the cost ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/10/31/taxing-oil-is-a-bad-plan-and-a-bad-strategy/ Have you looked at the various versions of the water bonds that are being floated around the California State Legislature? I did. There is actually money in the bonds to buy dirt. $1.5 billion of the bond is to buy dirt - $1.5 billion!!! The building of water storage and water ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/10/30/you-want-to-spend-how-much-money-on-dirt/ The backers of an initiative to call a constitutional convention have passed the first hurdle - they have the measure approved by the Secretary of State and are on their way to collecting signatures so the measure can qualify for the Nov 2010 ballot. Then there is  whole secondary issue - ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/10/29/passing-the-constitutional-convention-initiative/ It's that time of year again - the budget cycle has begun and we await the Governor's release on January 10th. During the fall, agencies and departments submit BCPs (Budget Change Proposals) to the Department of Finance (DOF) to change their budgets. These BCPs are supposed to include taking away money ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/10/29/its-the-budget-time-of-year-again/ The closed-door meetings with the Governor Legislature on the water issue has finally produced something - a water bill. There is no indication whether this is the true water bill, as nothing has arrived on the www.leginfo.ca.gov website. However, the Sacramento Bee obtained a copy of the water bill. You can ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/10/27/new-water-bill-made-public/ There are major problems in California. The unemployment rate averages over 12% - and is over 20% in Imperial County. The education system is in collapse. There is nothing to help the struggling middle class. Manufacturing jobs, really jobs of all sorts, are leaving California (the latest is the NUMMI ... http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com/2009/10/26/why-the-budget-is-the-downfall-of-california-politics/