Welfare people, union payroll people and intellectual academics don’t go to “parks”. Thus … there’s no need for this wasteful spending.

I can guarantee there will still be people “using” these parks. As in druggies, marijuana growers, dealers making transfers, homeless, various gangs, etc. Because where things get abandoned, that’s when “it” moves in.

Close popular public state institutions, like parks, visitor centers and the like. Just like the Feds did during past “budget shutdowns.”

Do nothing to cut real spending.

The same way public schools cut popular teachers and sports but never reduce administrators’ salaries.

The people will inevitably cry and capitulate.

I will provide an example. There is a small California city that has a state highway that runs through town. They want to put in new sidewalks. But since the road is a CalTrans road, it has taken them over TWO YEARS to get the sidewalk engineering approved.

This town wanted to put up a banner across the street to advertise a charity function. They asked CalTrans since it is their street. CalTrans said they had to submit engineering drawings and design for 100MPH winds. To put up a charity banner. The amount of time and money that CalTrans costs the cities and the number of engineering staff CalTrans requires by making even the simplest repairs require YEARS of paperwork, reviews, and circular paper chases is amazing. CalTrans is the biggest waste of state money there is. It is layers upon layers upon layers of bureaucracy and lots of chips flying with very few trees falling.

The state and the cities would be better served by turning over the maintenance of state highways within the incorporated limits to those jurisdictions. It would literally save billions. There is been one project … the addition of TWO handicap ramps at an intersection that has been going back and forth with CalTrans for 18 months now. This is an intersection that CalTrans themselves rebuilt a few years ago without ramps. The city wants to put them in. CalTrans is probably justifying the salaries of 5 engineers on that little project of two handicap ramps.

In other words, much of the “work” CalTrans does is not really state work at all. They spend thousands of hours micromanaging work OTHER people are doing. A city wanting to repair potholes or fix a sidewalk will have YEARS of paperwork, engineering studies, “resubmit for further disapproval” notes … until CalTrans finally milks enough hours out of the project. If someone needs a project to charge time to … your project is never getting off their books until something else comes along to replace it.

Give us our parks. Cut CalTrans.

1) had they not wasted all their money on illegal immigrants, they might have some
2) had they not taxed their citizens into oblivion, the citizens might have more to spend
3) had they not given every green cause money, they might have had some
4) had they realized that every step they took made things worse, they might have chosen a different way (fat chance)

And so on…

Something Sergeant Carter once said to Gomer Pyle: “Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid!”

Yet, our illegal immigrant president and angry hippy administration STILL think that California is the model to follow.

I have to ask, if when they wake up in the morning, do our democrats in power look at the toaster and think it would make a great bath toy?

Schwarzennegar is a failed governor of a failed state, largely due to his mismanagement. Perhaps if he could divert his attention away from getting face lifts and being henpecked to wife Maria, as well as making rude comments about Rush Limbaugh, the old bagga waste of space might try actually governing. p.s. Arnold, it’s time you take your aging small mind and go over to the ‘D’ side along with the rest of the RINOs. Get out!

This is what happens to a Welfare State with open borders.

Can’t wait to see OUR punishment from Oblabla with continually growing tea party members pushing back for no tax increases among other things.

CalWorks is a fine way for illegal aliens to get welfare because the support checks are given to “benefit” the anchor babies, and of course the illegals themselves get “job training” for such in-demand occupations as medical billing and administrative support persons (file clerks).

He also proposed cutting health benefits for illegals (WTF? I thought all they had was “emergency” benefits when they pop up in an ER. Apparently there are programs for that! However, there is no program for my 30-something white male California-born (Irish/German heritage) co-worker who is scraping together money to finish his bachelors degree!

But there’s no way the senate and legislators of my fine welfare state will ever allow that to happen!

Perhaps it’s time to privatize some of the parks, or make them a bit more self-sufficient? I hate to say it, I’d rather close parks than cut law enforcement and emergency services in any way.