[Elliott Jackalope]

I really hope that Arnold will be a good governor, and do good things for California. That state needs all the help it can get. I would suggest that the first thing he should do as governor is to take a list of every single state agency that exists in California, and then draw a line through half of the names on that list, thereby defunding them and firing everyone who works for those agencies. If you want a real hoot go to www.ca.gov and look up the list of state agencies, aka the "State Agency Index".

You simply would not believe the number of redundant, useless and downright laughable agencies that are funded by that state. Would you believe they actually have an "Acupuncture Board", or an "Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus"? How about the "California State summer school for the Arts"? Or the "Athletic commission"? Or the "Division for Apprenticeship Standards"? It just goes on and on. I'd list more but FR only has so much bandwidth!

[ElkGroveDan]

You simply would not believe the number of redundant, useless and downright laughable agencies that are funded by that state. Would you believe they actually have an "Acupuncture Board", or an "Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus"?

Agreed that there are a lot of agencies and boards, but the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus is not a board or agency. It is just a name like all the other legislative caucuses. There is no staff, no budget and no cost to legislative caucuses, they are just PC statements and most of them never even meet or do anything. Its a way for the Asian legislators to say hey look at us there are four of us now.

[cake_crumb]

Wow...those really DO exist...and why on Earth is the Department of Rural Health Policy Council a seprate agency from the Department of Health Services, and why are BOTH of those agencies seperate from MediCal? Can we say redundancy?

California African- American Museum? That requires a state agency? There's that much black history in California? Georgia I can see, but California? Can't it be privately funded??