The U.S. economy is suffering under crippling deficits, massive debt, and record unemployment. The country needs fresh ideas, novel solutions, and unorthodox measures to stimulate job growth, pay down debt, and balance its budget. Independents will be watching for policy proposals and candidates, who think outside the box, can make the tough decisions, and challenge the status quo when it comes to leading the economy out of a recession.
Approximately 1,500 fewer high
school seniors will become freshman at University of California campuses than last year this fall.
Fewer students were admitted for Fall 2009 to the UC campuses,
mainly owing to a budget crunch and fewer allotted spaces. While more
than 60,000 students became first-time UC freshmen last year, fewer
than 60,000 have earned that distinction for next fall.
The California Car Buyers’ Protection Act of 2009, appears to protect
car buyers; however, it may, by extension, end up hurting car buyers.
By presenting greater leeway to punish auto sellers, if fewer auto dealers
are willing to sell cars in California and become more risk-averse,
buyers may be adversely affected, as well.
As the circus
of delusion surrounding California’s special elections continues, the
unrealistic optimism of those pushing the elections is only becoming
more and more obvious, and more and more self-evidently
counter-productive.
Now not only are politicians asking California’s
people to approve spending caps, tax increases and borrowing against
the lottery, they’re also asking them to publicly admit they were wrong
last November.
If SB 810 is passed, universal
healthcare may soon be a reality for California citizens. SB 810 covers
the issue of “single-payer health care coverage” and is titled the
“California Universal Healthcare Act.” This bill provides a road
map for government-sponsored universal healthcare throughout California.
Let’s
hear it for Pittsburgh, which Tuesday made dirty
air not just California’s
problem.
The Pennsylvania city topped the American Lung
Association’s annual list for the worst short-term air pollution from
particles and was barely second to Los
Angeles for year-round levels.
It’s the
first time in 10 years that a city outside California has headed any list in the yearly
State of the Air report, the lung association says.
A minor
legislative scandal has rocked California, and from the looks of it,
all that pro-Proposition 1F sentiment wasn’t just sentimental. Despite
the pleasant 60 degree weather, the winter of California’s discontent
came rushing to Sacramento after Speaker Karen Bass and Minority Leader
Mike Villines proposed pay increases for their staffers numbering close to half-a-million dollars.
Approximately 300,000 Californians are expected to enter their names on the rolls for food stamps next year.
As if the prison expansion mandates weren’t enough, California’s people now face yet another unfairly created, unfunded liability. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Following a battle that some likened to a struggle between “machine” and “grassroots,” Democratic state politics, Prop. 1A
– the core of a six-measure initiative package on the May 19 special
election ballot — failed to receive the official endorsement of the
California Democratic Party at its annual convention this weekend in
Sacramento.
A glimmer of light has
suddenly entered the oppressive darkness of California’s special
elections prospects, though it is a feeble one indeed.
