Editor,
Our one party Democratic state government is failing to deliver basic services to Californians like adequate water, reliable power and basic education for children. No meaningful water storage has been added to our water supply in 50 years. Reliable electricity from natural gas generation and nuclear power has been significantly replaced with unreliable solar and wind power resulting in blackouts and the highest cost electricity in the country.
Our teachers’-union-run schools are rated just about the worst the country. State employee pension funds are increasingly taxing local governments. Meanwhile, $100 billion is being spent on a boondoggle high-speed rail to Bakersfield. When are Californians going to realize that we have a corrupt authoritarian state government that is being run for the benefit of democrat politicians and government employee unions and not for the people?
Ed Kahl
Woodside
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(12) comments
Hello, Ed
Thanks for your letter. Hopefully, it will generate further discussion re: the ineffectiveness of our one-party legislature's rule in California. And while your letter may draw out some opposing opinions, it's unlikely we will hear about why we have witnessed water storage and school system failures in California or anything about the Central Valley's high speed rail project that has lost its way.
Well written, Mr. Kahl. Just remember, more costs for power means more money, in the form of fees and usage taxes, for the city and state. And we need the boondoggle rail to reward unions for getting lemming Democrats elected. Thankfully, one can leave the state and enjoy the show from the sidelines.
Terence,
The only problem with leaving California, is the problems follow those leaving. According to all the "well educated smart people" I know around the country. In particular, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Colorado. Tongue in cheek, of course. [innocent]
Astute observation, Wilfred. However, I’m counting on other state tax and regulation to stay as-is before these "well educated smart people" have a chance to bring their idiocy, wokeness, and wasteful spending to the fore by potentially infecting decision-makers in their new adopted state.
Let's be honest. The Republican Party has no compelling message anymore in California. What does it really stand for? I consider myself a Republican but I don't have a lot of faith in the motivation of our party leaders. The Democrat Party has glammed onto all popular issues of the day, including racism, gun control, environment, even COVID19, homelessness, and the list goes on. What is our Party's position on any of these that would cause voters to return to a two-party system?
Dirk,
I will say that you do have a good understanding of the Republican party, the party of NO. The repubs never offer a solution to a problem, they only oppose the ideas and solutions offered by by others. Be it the Democratic party, an independent or anyone else. How many years have they refused to talk about any form of gun control other than how to be sure there is no control of guns? The reply to every major shooting event is the same. "Now is not the time to talk gun control, now is the time to mourn the dead."
Taffy - let's not go overboard. I generally despise the Democratic Party platforms. And, gun control is just a slogan for you guys. It does not serve any purpose other than punishing law abiding citizens, the very vast majority of which would never turn a gun onto another person. Just because we have some kooks out there, and their families who refuse to recognize that they have a criminal in their midst, should not condemn the rest of us.
Dirk,
Here is your chance to be different from the party of no. What do you propose as a solution for the mass shootings other than McConnell's standard mourn the victims line?
Hey, Tafhdyd
What US president said, "Guns are an abomination"? He also favored making handguns illegal and requiring licenses for hunting rifles...
Richard Nixon
Who acknowledged that he was a member of the NRA then said, "I support the Brady bill and I urge the Congress to enact it"?
Ronald Reagan
Who said, "I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don’t get in the hands of people that shouldn’t have them"?
George W. Bush
Democratic Party leaders push gun control after tragedies like Atlanta and Boulder, but they are really pushing the confiscation of firearms. Remember Beto?
Watch the remarks made by Mark Robinson almost three years ago at a Greensboro NC city council meeting on the topic of gun control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dZn0D_9VY8
He made those remarks almost three years ago. Since then, Mark Robinson has been elected as the first Black lieutenant-governor in the state of North Carolina.
Ray,
I don’t have a problem with background checks. I don’t want to take guns away from citizens. I don’t have a problem with having a license for guns. I also don’t see the need for military high capacity weapons to hunt a squirrel.
The Brady bill was passed and parts of it are still being used as far as I know. Party leaders push gun control after tragedies…don’t forget that one of the party leaders sponsored the Brady bill, Chuck Schumer. It seems to me that they push gun control at other times but it only makes the news after tragedies.
Hey, Tafhdyd
We do not differ too much on things like background checks... but let's be honest. Dem leadership will not let a crisis go to waste. Throwing down the race card in Atlanta and trying to do the same in Boulder while calling for gun control is intellectually dishonest (IMO).
Let's not wait for another shooting. Sadly, except for the trauma that the victims' families will live with for the rest of their lives... Atlanta and Boulder will be in the public's rear view mirror all too soon. So, grab Schumer by the ear and McConnell by the neck wattle and drag them into a room with these instructions... don't come out until you have a real plan that addresses the real issues pushing gun violence.
Beto is a great example of Dem leadership wanting to take guns away. First, he inflates the numbers, then he ties gun violence to... wait for it... white supremacy.
Joe Biden said a year ago, "I support the Second Amendment." We'll see...
Dirk,
Methinks that the Republican and Democratic parties are two sides of the same coin. They are only interested in sustaining careers. The people politicians are supposed to provide for are thought of only in that respect. Not unlike my dear childhood friend from San Mateo, that brought the SMDJ opinion page to my attention. During our long drives to and from golf course destinations in Carson City and Lake Tahoe, he would bemoan the problems of being a teacher. Problems with students, their parents, school administration and union issues. Eventually I suggested he should worry about the only thing that mattered. The students. He did not and I suspect politicians won't either because people are people. Nothing will change; until we foist real change upon them. Like President Reagan did, fire them all and re-hire based on their value to the task. But I won't be holding my breath.[unsure]
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