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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (283041)	4/7/2006 4:16:01 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572065

Your link gives me Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. However typing in the url gave me my post. The link is your link. I didn't post another link. I am unclear that point you are making. The point is right up front in the post. That CA is spending more as a percent of personal income on education than it did before Prop 13 and has been doing so since the late 80s. During the 1980s, CA had a huge rise in housing prices in part due to the promises of Prop. 13 but mostly because its big cities were running out of in close land on which to build. Starting around 1975, the median price for CA housing began to exceed that of the ave. median for the country. In the late sixties and early '70s, CA was in an aerospace recession. As that abated, in-migration into the state resumed and that started putting pressure on housing. Simultaneously, the big cities began to run out of buildable land. The twin pressures began to force housing up in price. That prompted the jerk who came up with Prop. 13 to make his move. By 1978, the CA electorate voted Prop. 13 into law. The passage of Prop. 13 precipitated a boom in housing prices the likes of which CA had never witnessed before. Much like rent control which provides an unnatural control over rental prices, Prop 13 had a similar influence......except, unlike rent control, it influenced housing prices to the upside. With the speculation that ensued, housing turnover increased so that some of the expected tax revenue shortfall was reduced. At the same time, the country was just coming out of an inflationary period...........roughly in the mid 1980s, inflation began to abate as the oil boom crashed. So it is no surprise that by the early 1990's, CA spending had caught up with its past. However, more than ten years had elapsed since the passage of Prop.13.........there were more than 10 million new people in the state as well as a couple of million more illegals. Both were putting increasing pressure on an infrastructure that was beginning to show its age. Returning spending to 1978 levels did nothing to stop the infrastructure crisis in CA. Because there are so many people living in CA and visiting CA as tourists, the wear and tear on infrastructure is much greater than it is in most other parts of the country. So, if the expected life of a freeway is 30 years in Kansas before it needs rehab; its 15 years in CA. Ask Ten about his freeway commute. Ask him about graffiti. Ask him about structural problems with the roads. Ask him about cars that have died along the freeway and need to be removed. Ask him about the hospitals.......how crowded they are on any given day. Ask him how long he has to stand in line to get his driver's license at the DMV. And he lives in the better part of S. CA. Its mind boggling how many people are using such few facilities.......and the pressure cooker it creates. I just remembered the guy's name......Jarvis. He's the butthole who got Prop 13 passed. I bet the sucker lives in Idaho or Montana now.