Posted on 06/21/2025 5:28:03 AM PDT by george76
What will it take for Gavin Newsom to focus on his day job?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/20/opinion/what-will-it-take-for-gavin-newsom-to-focus-on-his-day-job/
The filibuster should be removed from the US Senate.
No member of Congress or staffer should be paid during the time when a budget is overdue.
Federal judges should not be able to issue an injunction against the federal government or its projects without the approval of the President or the Attorney General.
” differences in regulatory burdens between Texas and California and between various jurisdictions within the (allegedly) Golden State”
I understand the Golden State refers to the color of much of vegetation in the state and not directly to a metal.
Make the Playboy mansion the Governors residence.
Anything good in California happened by accident it’s a leaderless state that is hell bent on gouging to keep things going.
California is dying of a terminal disease.
It’s called many names: wokeism, socialism, progressive, stupidity, etc. et. etc.
It’s too late for life support. What possible good would it do to extend the life a few more years?
Just be aware of who and what caused the demise of this state that after the term of RWR ended there was a surplus of funds, and the state was in sound condition.
So, what happened?
Evil Democrats and equally complicit RINOs.
Maybe we could just fire millions of government ‘workers’.
After generations of replacing the world’s best and most driven with quota hiring of the mediocre and incompetent, and and with the over layering of our entire culture, society, and our institutions with feminization and normalization of the female standard replacing the male standard, and the replacement of our achievement culture with driving those achievers from the work place and hobbling and limiting those who remain, this is the smothered reality of America and of Western Civilization.
Getting things done, fixing things, is seen as harsh and masculine, and there is no way of getting there except to readmit white males and their competence and drive that led to American greatness and restructuring America on that culture of trust and competition and vision of excellence.
The 30 mile addition to the 405 freeway, from Century Blvd to where it meets the 5 in the Newhall Pass was Completely Built, Finished and OPENED in 18 months. 1958
Things weren’t always so bad in the Wine State. When I was growing up in the middle of the last century, California was the hottest economy in the world. People were moving in at the rate of 1,000 per day. Our public schools, overseen by Max Rafferty, a no-nonsense traditionalist educator, were the nation’s finest. LA was run by a Republican, followed by a conservative Democrat, and even San Francisco had a Republican mayor for a while.
Things started going downhill after George Deukmejian, our last conservative governor, left office in 1991.
It is ok to hold a contemptable judge in contempt
I don’t know if anyone here has been following the debate among the Democrats of Ezra Klein’s Abundance, but it is really quite interesting. It seems like that even when the flaws in their ideas are pointed out to the Democrat theorists, many of them are completely unwilling to make the smallest changes.
Klein himself was quite surprised that the Democrats are willing to shoot themselves in the foot, and lose elections and support rather than give up their ridiculous policies: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/abundance-democrats-future.html
Just over twenty miles of the CSX Clinchfield railroad through the Nolichucky Gorge was wiped clean down to the bare bedrock by the raging Hurricane Helene Nolichucky river flood.
The railway will re open soon after about 8 or so months of reconstruction including I believe 5 bridges. The route is through mountains having no road access for most of the way. It is a construction feat riveled by few other efforts.
In Az, the 22 miles, 4 lines each direction, 202 loop extension, in rather challenging geography, took only about 2 years to physically build, just few years ago!
After about 30 years of lawsuits and bureaucratic boondoggles!
That’s about typical now.
We can still build fast, when we are allowed to do that!
Even that California high speed rail is taking so long and costing so much, not because building contractors are inept and corrupt, but because of legal, environmental and bureaucratic nightmares.
According to my expert friend, the interstate project would never have chance in todays’ legal environment.
The state is filled with indoctrinated retards.
There is, of course, a place for regulation in society— particularly where public safety is concerned.
The incentive and power between the private enterprise and the bureaucracies which regulate it, however, is quite different.
The bureaucracy, and those inside it, generally have a perverse incentive to protract enforcement of the regulation through forms, reviews, inspections, etc. They do not have the same competitive cost pressure as private entities to become lean and efficient in their operations.
This has a ratchet effect on the time and cost of completing large projects. They do not get fired from a project because they overran their budget— or because they caused your company to overrun its budget.
Neither the Assembly nor a private entity can switch to alternate bureaucracies for their road inspections, zoning approvals, etc.
And so the very agencies charged with enforcing regulation for the public safety become the hindrances to improvements.
It will be interesting to see how states use AI to change this.
“Woodrow Wilson”-doesn’t THAT just say it all...
Every federal agency is, has never been anything but, an attempt to make end runs around the Constitution.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN!
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