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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (435128)	11/16/2008 4:13:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573416

Ted, > When you don't properly maintain your infrastructure for decades eventually you end up paying much more to keep it up than if you had kept it up year after year. You're still not answering the question. All you are doing is addressing the expense side, then basing the "starvation" on greatly inflated "needs of the state When you don't maintain things properly, they break down more frequently and the breakdowns tend to be more expensive than had they been maintained properly in the first place. Unfortunately, you never get caught up. Everything the state of CA owns......its roads, its bridges, its hospitals, its universities, its prisons et al have what's called deferred maintenance. The state doesn't have enough money to keep them up. Plus, departments are understaffed. Every time you try to deal with the state....you face long lines. I know you think the state's workers are incompetent but that's not the real problem. They have too much work for the amount of staffing. Read Klein's article again.......back in the 1960s and 1970s, CA was one of the best run states. Things worked.....the state was innovative and led the nation. Now its a mess.......more S. CA than N. CA but both are not in the best place. Its the primary reason why I left. I came from MN where things worked.....I couldn't take the chaos of CA any more. Plus all the bad decisions that have been made in the last 20 years......letting people build in the middle of fire zones. When I first got to CA, the fire season went from Aug to Nov. Then it increased from June to Dec. Now its nearly all year round. I hated it.....the smell of burning; ash in the air; smog blotting out the sun.....the mild weather wasn't enough to offset the bad! You know exactly what I am saying. I hope this answers your question.