CA Measure 23 - Personal Perspective

I have similar thoughts as expressed by Mr. Nichols, though not so eloquently presented…:-) First, where does money flow from, if not by the exchange of services for goods. Meaning we all have to work to pay for goods produced by a manufacture, business or other that we puchase from; through the exchange of labor for income, and the cycle goes on and on.

So, what good is it if legislation is put into place to clean up the air, that forces businesses to close their doors and people to lose their jobs, only to beg, borrow or steal to feed their starving bellies?

Politicians of today are like leeches, that feed off of tax payors with legislative powers. They act as though they working upon our behalf, but always with ulterior scheming and conniving motives.. Politicians, and yes I’m referring to senators, congressmen, legislators and others are on par with that of used car salesmen. All selling and pedaling programs and agendas to keep their “I owe ya / scratch my back” campaign fund supporters happy and satisfied; while we the common folk are led to the slaughter house of higher taxes and legislative constraints.

As for politicians; these wanna be civil servant and self professed do gooders,  how about they give up being paid for their curruptible fallacy of service; fighting for damnable legistion that enslaves instead of freeing or protecting the people?  Bet there wouldn’t be many takers. Or how would they respond, if the laws they passed would potentially end their sorry existence of pretense servitude?

Fact is we need to eat and drink to survive, and that above breathing pristene air, that AB 32 purports to improve upon, but at what cost to the working class of California?  If one reads the pro-cons of AB 32 verses Measure 23; you will see that big and small business is indeed supporting Measure 23 and for good reason.  Business owners just like the common folk work for an existence, but their revenue stream is based upon profit.  AB 32 is being pushed, because activists believe California is the forerunner on green air technology and that others follow our lead.  Folks read the research; Texas and other states are leading the pack on alternative energy, not California, but none of these states have an AB 32 Bill in place.

AB 32 will no immediate impact on emissions within CA or the world; nor will the passing of Measure 23 stop the current clean air bills in place from maintaining our current air quality. It will, however, insure that we don’t lose any more businesses in CA; followed by subsequent job losses.

The real culprit behind the cesspool of economic woes facing  California and other states, along with our Fed government, is attributable to the fact that governments does not follow the same rules that they expect us a people to comply with... ie. deficit spending, trickle down economics and ZIRP just to name a few of the absurd accounting methods the government operates by.

People of this great country, we need to wake up and clean house, and it needs to start with government. Government doesn’t pay our bills, but somehow there are alot of folk out there that believe they do. They just forget that it’s us, the working taxpayer that are paying the welfare and socialist system programs that our government has so generously decided to create and support with our hard earned monies.  We all could go on and on about this embalanced injustice, but fact is, something has to change and hopefully soon and hopefully for the benefit of the 25% of working Americans that fund this countries tax funded programs.