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1) End all retirement or paid benefits (including vacations) for any elected or appointed state official.

2) Make a flatline subsidy for health insurance for all state employees of $400 a month. Allow employees to choose whatever plan they like.

3) Cap all retirement at $50,000 per year 2011 dollars. Cap any buyouts for retirement, etc at $12,000. Cap all payouts for unused leave or vacation at $12,000.

4) Cut vacations for all state employees to 2 weeks per year.

5) Evict the millions of illegal aliens and their anchor babies from California.

There you go, we can now have the lowest state taxes in the nation.

When looking at state budgets, the big, fat, stinking carcass of a moose blocking the road is SCHOOLS! If you get kids out of the schools, fewer buildings and teachers, with their gargantuan pensions, will be needed.

Here is my plan:

** Absolutely get rid of the illegals!

***Allow any child of any age to take the GED or a similar private exam. If they pass, they get an official high school diploma from their local high school. This diploma makes them eligible for the army and college scholarships. To make it extra fluffy. Give them a $2,000 voucher for each year that they finish early. The voucher can be used at any time in their lifetime for post high school education or training.

** Move all sports, theater, arts, and music programs to the county departments of recreation. There should be no requirement whatsoever on grades to participate! Many children stay in school because government has the monopoly on farm team sport's training. Also...These programs create “rah rah” support for the schools in the voting booth. Fewer kids in school mean fewer teachers and fewer buildings to maintain.

** Have qualifying exams for all subjects starting in first grade. If the child masters the subject and passes a government or private exam, the child would be immediately promoted to the next level in the subject(s). This would encourage children to study during the summer and at home. The sooner the child finishes high school and passes the GED the more money he would get for post high school training or education.

** Encourage the expansion of charters, tax credits, and vouchers.

** Encourage the formation of “dame” schools. Allow neighbors to run “homeschools” ( dame schools) in their homes. The zoning and health requirements should be no more onerous than what now exists for day care.

** On the post high school level encourage the use of private qualifying exams. Charles Murray is right! We need fewer kids in college. Even in some of the professions, such as engineering, dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, nursing some of the lecture material could be placed on-line. the lectures Qualifying exams would test mastery. The course material could even be free if advertising paid the producers of the course. The result would be fewer kids in college and less need for college instructors and professors.

A good start and agree. However, the common sense solutions have been voiced and demanded several million times over the past decade or so. The government is only interested in control in an effort to tax and regulate *everything* we do.

Unfortunately, government has grow so large and all controlling, it's now uncontrollable .