Friday, January 9, 2009
State to shut down first and third Fridays each month
Now the average Californian will know what it's like to do without the services they need, want & require, that they are willing to pay for on a beer pocket book budget when it requires a champagne pocket book budget. As a State government worker, I can't wait for the average Californian TO SUFFER & scream bloody murder when they can't get their driver's license, vehicle registration, unemployment benefits, permits to operate their business, income tax refund, when their employer tries to compromise their safety and health & nobody is there to enforce safety & health regulations, when their utility rates go up because there isn't any one to make sure their rates don't go up exorbitantly, when they have to constantly repair their cars because the streets, roads, freeways & highways are not being repaired, when they have a dispute with their healthcare insurance company & nobody is available to help them. Californians need to forget about dismantling programs & giving the programs to the Federal Government-that's what happened in the mid 1980s'. Gov. Wilson dismantled Cal/OSHA & gave the program to Federal OSHA. There was a mining accident Labor Day Weekend of the same year & the local Fed/OSHA office had to wait for the Fed/OSHA Director in D.C. to allow him to investigate & the permission to investigate came 2 weeks after the accident. In addition, WORKERS' COMPENSATION INSURANCE COST WENT UP 45%. Needless to say, BUSINESSES IN CALIFORNIA SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER & CAL/OSHA WAS RECONSTITUED 18 MONTHS LATER. HOWEVER, THE DAMAGE WAS DONE. Since Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, the SEC, EPA, FDA, CDC & Fed/OSHA's funding has been decimated rendering their regulatory & enforcement teeth nonexistant.
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