We must have concrete solutions – and I am offering them to you – these are real things that we CAN do the first year I am in office:

1. Budget - everyone says the budget cannot be completed on time or FOR LESS. I can.
On time – I will write legislation to mandate that failure to complete and institute a new budget on time would automatically make the previous year’s budget the de facto budget for the current year with no additional spending items allowed!13 other states do this.
For LESS – we will write a budget every 2 years in the off-election year. Corporations, Cities and many other states do this!
2. Spending CAP – base spending on our state’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP. We can have a rate that will lock spending tied to our production – wow – once again – sounding like 3rd grade math. Our state has income and we can make sure expenses do not exceed and in fact, are below. This will force us to have fiscal discipline and protect YOU the taxpayers from ‘runaway train’ type programmatic spending.  that is what you have been witnessing these past 10 years.
3. Defend the 2/3’s Requirement to pass a budget. If we lower the threshold to only 50% then raising taxes on WE THE PEOPLE will be fast and easy – no no no! This is a way for the state to tax us into permanent unemployment.
4. Cut fraud and waste!
• CalTrans did a recent study and found that one division had 1,500 employees that were redundant or just not needed and that is only one division.
• CA has much waste and fraud. When Steve Poisner first became the Ins Commissioner he went after fraudulent doctors in Orange County that were doing unnecessary surgery on the elderly and stealing from the Medi-Cal system. Several doctors went to prison and millions and millions were recovered as the result.
5. Set up a TIP LINE – offer an anonymous line/text or email so that CA residents can report abuses of the system. Offer a reward for convictions. IRS does it – we should too!
6. Support the idea of a part-time legislature. No need for all these pontificating politicians to quit their day-job and run to Sacramento to rule our lives.