[FairOpinion]

I agree with Tom McClintock's recommendations on everything, except 1 B, where I thin that our roads are in such desperate condition, that we need to have them fixed now.

It's like when you need to buy meat and the only meat available is meat with bone and fat, but you need to buy the whole package, to get the meat you need.

[newzjunkey]

His reasoning: Prop. 1B Transportation Bond: NO! Although some of this money is for long overdue road construction, most goes for equipment, maintenance and social programs that will be obsolete decades before our children have finished paying off the debt. Californians pay the third highest tax per gallon of gasoline in the country – and yet we rank 43rd in per capita spending on highways. Our neglected roads are not the taxpayers’ fault.

I have to disagree with Tom's apparent optimism that we will have a better option than 1B any time soon. Knowing the state of the roads, I'm leaning towards a YES on 1B, but haven't read the language for myself as yet.