The Republican Trickle Down Theory has never worked.

At least retired California employees will have an income to support some kind of economy. The sad Republican TRUTH is that they actually believe what the say. Dangerous. Very dangerous.

In this photo provided by his press office, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs an order creating the Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission in his hospital room in Santa Monica, Calif., on Dec. 28. (click here)




Has Ahnold been able to stimulate jobs and an economy in California?

NO.

Current California unemployment rate is 7.7% (click title for information).

Why?

Because the economic depression across the USA has anchored deeply into every state's economy and without state sponsored economic rehabilitation there WON'T BE A RECOVERY. The ONLY way out of this economic depression and I'm sorry but with some states reporting 10% unemployment rates, some registering over 5% in the month of September alone, this is a DEPRESSION with nearly every investment bank gone and consolidations and mergers eating up the infrastructure. This is an economic depression.

The INFRASTRUCTURE the Republicans are relying on to reduce taxes to stimulate growth and jobs DOES NOT EXIST. The USA, including California, has to rebuild its infrastruture. The economic policies of Schwarzenegger have failed and failed royally and he actually believes a temporary sales tax will turn the corner on his budget short falls. Whom exactly is going to pay that sales tax, visiting Europeans spending Euros.

We need a Democrat in the Executive Branch along with a Democratic House and Senate to take back the country and return economic viability to an American landscape that has all but disappeared !

California's single-family building permits drop 60% (click here)
Apartment demand lifts multifamily starts
By Inman News, Friday, March 28, 2008.
Single-family housing starts, as measured by building permits issued, plunged 59.8 percent in February compared to the same month last year, the California Building Industry Association trade group reported this week, and total housing starts dropped 27.9 percent.
CBIA reported 2,540 total single-family building permits issued in February, compared with 6,326 permits issued in February 2007, according to building-permit data supplied by the Construction Industry Research Board, a nonprofit research center.
Multifamily building-permit activity, meanwhile, rose 35.8 percent year-over-year in February, according to the report, with 4,315 multifamily permits in February 2008.
Single-family permit activity dropped 5 percent in February 2008 compared to the previous month, while monthly multifamily building-permit activity rose 112.2 percent compared to January.
The increase in multifamily construction was expected because of an increased demand for apartments, said Alan Nevin, CBIA chief economist, in a statement.
He also said that federal actions to increase the conforming loan limit and reduce the federal funds rate could "gradually induce activity in new-home production."
The Los Angeles metro area led in permit activity with 1,635 housing permits issued in February, followed by the Riverside area with 973 and the Anaheim area with 906, according to the report.

What is in your mind's eye for the future?

Happy Halloween !

When does this UNCONSTITUTIONAL Voter Tampering Stop? Florida does it AGAIN.

Under a Jeb Bush lead Republican legislature the "Florida's Voter Verification Law" was passed. It uses every opportunity to oppress the vote in Florida. THIS TIME, if your driver's license address doesn't perfectly match the voter registration YOU LOSE and so does your candidate !

ELECTION 2008 VOTER VERIFICATION LAW
No-match list catches regular voters by surprise (click here)
The state's list of 'no match' voters includes some surprises -- a Miami Heat player, a candidate's wife and many people unaware they were on it.
BY CURTIS MORGAN AND CHARLES RABIN
cmorgan@MiamiHerald.com
What do a promising rookie for the Miami Heat, a systems analyst from Bulgaria, the wife of a Republican congressional candidate and Fidel Castro have in common?
They can't just show up Nov. 4 and fill out a regular ballot. Theirs are among 12,000 names statewide flagged under Florida's Voter Verification Law, a ''no match'' screening process embroiled in legal and political controversy....

If Voters find themselves between a Rock and a Hard Place, simply go to the 'online' address change site and be sure it matches your voter registration, while the hideous law is challenged in court.


Driver Privacy Protection Act Warning (click here and check "I Agree" at the site and change your driver's license address)
The personal information contained within this site is protected by 18 U.S.C. 2721-2725, et seq., (the Driver Privacy Protection Act) and Section 119.0712(2), Florida Statutes. You are not authorized to access personal information for anyone other than yourself through this web site unless you have specific written permission to do so. Any access or attempted access to personal information of others may subject you to criminal prosecution or civil liability.

The illegitimacy of these 'qualifying' laws date back to 1870 when a bunch of wise guys placed A BARRIER to voting to disaffect those that would seek justice to their plight through representation, when a 'literacy' component was added to the law.

...African Americans exercised the franchise (click here) and held office in many Southern states through the 1880s, but in the early 1890s, steps were taken to ensure subsequent “white supremacy.” Literacy tests for the vote, “grandfather clauses” excluding from the franchise all whose ancestors had not voted in the 1860s, and other devices to disenfranchise African Americans were written into the constitutions of former Confederate states....

In a country where fingerprint scanners and retinal scanners are used to secure the border access and egress of the USA there is ABSOLUTELY no reason why every registered voter has to be challenged to their identity. Individuals that qualify to vote and know they are legitimate voters should NEVER be INTIMIDATED. These 'qualifying events' are unconstitutional and have always been used to oppress the vote. The very people that need to be able to vote in any election are those with 'logistical' issues in 'their lifestyles.' It's nuts already.

The Provisional Ballot is the other alternative to any barrier as it presents itself at the time of voting.

Supervisor of Elections (click here)
Brevard County, Florida
Provisional Ballots
Last updated 8/4/08
Provisional ballots are issued to voters in four situations:
1. When a voter claims to be properly registered in the county and eligible to vote at the precinct or early voting site in the election, but the voter's eligibility cannot be determined (Section 101.048, Florida Statutes).
2. When an elector has been mailed an absentee ballot but desires to vote in person and he or she does not bring the ballot to the polling place or early voting location, and it cannot be determined whether the supervisor has received the elector's absentee ballot (Section 101.69, Florida Statutes)
3. When an elector fails to furnish the required identification (Section 101.043, Florida Statutes).
4. When the polling time is extended by court or other order; these provisional ballots are segregated from all other provisional ballots (Section 101.049, Florida Statutes).
Provisional ballots are not issued to a voter who is found to be in the incorrect polling place. These voters are directed to their correct polling place to vote....

The so called well meaning legislators that pass these hideous laws do so in full recognition of the obstacals they place in the path of people that need to vote in order to elect representatives that can most assist with their issues of 'living' in the USA. These laws have to be challenged in a court of law and replaced with provisions that FACILITATE 'ease' in voting rather than prevention of voting.

Placing obstacles in the way of unwitting voters has always been a favorite of Republicans to insure their victories. It was the case in 2000 in Florida when thousands of legitimate voters were disenfanchised AND the then 'Ruling Jeb Bush Administration' did NOTHING to recognize that fact, in order to 'instill' his brother at the federal supremacy. It is time "Gore v. Bush" was replaced with a Constitutional challenge that places THE VOTE at the focus of any measure rather than a Republican victory at the focus of a Supreme Court Decision.

In deciding "Gore v. Bush" a travesty of justice occurred and the decision was passed into precedent law by three NEOCON judges to facilitate their political preference in the Executive Branch. "Gore v. Bush" was wrongly decided and during the questioning preceding that decision by a three vote majority it became obvious the proceedings were nothing but a formality to all too anxious decision makers while the ACTUAL majority of the court disqualifed themselves from such a decision that would profoundly disaffect a nation.

THE VOTE needs the dignity it should be afforded and the next federal legislature needs to pass 'guidelines' to Voter Laws for states to once again return dignity to 'the process' and fluidity to the ability of any voter to participate in their elected representation !