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Monday, September 17, 2018, 7:23 pm | Randy Thomasson
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Have you been frustrated by the DMV too?
I tried to save time by scheduling an appointment. I even chose a DMV office in a conservative town for their perceived efficiency and fewer crowds. And I got there early. But it still took more than an hour.
The computer terminal they had me stand at to fill out an application asked me if I intended to drive a “housecar or trailer” and showed me a drawing of a little teardrop camper. I thought, well I might rent a U-Haul trailer in the future, so I checked the box. But later I was told this option was only for trailers over forty feet long, and they had to manually correct my application. But why didn’t the computer tell me that or show me a long trailer instead?
When I finished the application, a confirmation code appeared on the screen. Just to be safe, I wrote it down. Later the person processing my documents she hoped I wrote down my confirmation code. I said it’s good that I wrote it down, but they need to post a note for people to do that and put post-it notes for them to write it out. The DMV lady said those were good ideas, but that she didn’t have the power to change anything.
The most frustrating thing for me was that, while completing the computer-based application, I was asked if I wanted to register to vote and was informed that the only way not to register to vote today was to check the box declaring that I wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Shocked, I still checked that box, since I was already registered to vote. Later, at the window with a live person, I say I AM a citizen and they corrected my application. How lame was this?
I should also mention the large walls above our heads and running the length of the entire, big room were completely blank. Is there any virtue in this? There were no signs directing people to the computers to fill out their applications. And there were no signs directing us where to go afterwards. Ironically, there were large TV screens running paid, DMV-approved commercials! So communication is important if advertisers say so and the DMV says so, but not if customers need something to be clear, instead of frustrating.
After standing in one DMV line to ask where I should go next, I walked over and stood in another line next to a refined, older woman. I complained about the DMV, then she did too. I told her if I were in charge, I’d reward the good staffers and fire the bad ones. She said she agreed, and we laughed about it, both knowing it’ll never happen.
There were several other errors and miscommunications that took place during my DMV visit:
The lack of good employee standards meant DMV staffer mistakes that I had to correct. Such as trying to charge me more than what my appointment was for.
I also saw employees wasting time for minutes on end, doing nothing, just playing with their smartphones.
Meanwhile, on the back wall, the large photograph of California’s top Democrat, Jerry Brown, saw everything but did nothing.
My visit to the DMV reminded me that putting the government in charge of something usually means substandard service. And if government employees can unionize, then the pro-union laws have a tendency of making government offices slow and self-serving. For example, the privately-run Federal Express exhibits efficiency that puts to shame the government-run DMV.
And just today, I was reminded that the ruling Democrat politicians and their DMV are thieves. When canceling my automobile insurance after finding a better deal elsewhere, I was informed that, upon cancellation, I was being charged a $2 “special purpose assessment.” When I complained, the insurance carrier explained, “This is a surcharge collected by the state of California… we do not have more explanation on this surcharge.” When I searched the California DMV website, I discovered what I suspected — it just another tax permitting the wasteful, Democrat-controlled government to take — via “nickel and dime” — more money from We the People.
All of this has added to why I’m voting YES on Proposition 6 this November to repeal the Democrat politicians’ 2017 unnecessary and corrupt gas tax and DMV fee hikes. Please join me in getting a righteous return of California families’ hard-earned money and sending a message to the ruling Democrats that we recognize and reject their thievery.
“[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”
Noah Webster, “Schoolmaster to America” (1758-1843)
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Thursday, August 16, 2018, 4:45 pm | Randy Thomasson
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Wait, aren’t Democrats supposed to protect the weak and the vulnerable? No, the new Democrat agenda is to kill them off — at the beginning of life (abortion) and now to the elderly too (euthanasia).
On August 6, AB 282 expanding both “assisted suicide” (so-called voluntary death) and euthanasia (involuntary death) passed the California State Senate. Sold as a “correction” to the 2015 “assisted suicide” law, AB 282, by focusing on the existing Penal Code making it a felony to assist someone to commit suicide, illogically exempts from all prosecution the act of helping a “terminally ill” person commit suicide.
But this should not assure anyone, not even the so-called “terminally ill” who have lots of life and natural medicine opportunities left, Because under AB 282, with nothing to assure a person’s “choice” to die, selfish family members can order up the pills, even force you to “drink” them, avoid all prosecution, and still inherit money if they’re in your will. It’s the “perfect crime.”
I invite you to read my August 16 interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN News). In it, I explain why AB 282, as well as the first “assisted suicide” law from 2015, is so wrong and harmful, and why it’s a severe threat to the weak and vulnerable.
In the 40-member State Senate, all 25 Democrats voted yes, while 9 Republicans voted no and 5 others did not vote: Noes: Bates, Chang, Gaines, Moorlach, Morrell, Nguyen, Stone, Vidak, Wilk; No Votes Recorded: Anderson, Berryhill, Cannella, Fuller, Nielsen. AB 282 now returns to the Assembly for a “concurrence vote” by August 31.
In 2015, Democrat politicians in Sacramento first legalized “assisted suicide.” There’s no requirement for a witness at death, and no requirement to self-administer. What’s more, it permits forgery of a final attestation form and a false cause of death on a death certificate.
What’s going on today:
Now, the Democrat politicians are pushing AB 282 (authored by Jones-Sawyer). This new bill would:
» Exempt from criminal prosecution “aiding, advising, or encouraging” physician-assisted suicide. In other words, a bad doctor or nurse can pressure you to die.
» Allow someone who could financially benefit from your death to actually sign an order giving you suicide pills. This allows murder for profit.
Think about what a terrible message this sends to teenagers and young adults. While the law focuses on the so-called “terminally ill,” it also sends an an unmistakable signal that if you’re depressed, suicide is the “answer.”
The vital issue of “assisted suicide” is still in California courts. The 2015 bill was rightly ruled unconstitutional; however, that ruling is “stayed” (so it’s not in effect right now) while the case is being appealed by California’s pro-suicide Attorney General, Xavier Becerra.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Call your California state assemblymember and Governor Jerry Brown.
Calling your assemblymember: 1) Click here, then enter your voter registration address, then click the “Locate” button. 2) Then your state assemblymember and state senator information will display. 3) Click your assemblymember’s name. 4) On his or her web page, find “Contact” in order to see phone numbers.
When you call or leave a voicemail, just say: “AB 282 allows murder for profit by permitting a person who could financially benefit from a patient’s death to request a lethal dose of drugs. Oppose AB 282, which creates ‘the perfect crime.'”
Leave the same message for Governor Jerry Brown, including your conclusion, “Please veto AB 282.” Call 916-445-2841, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 7:54 am | Randy Thomasson
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SaveCalifornia.com provides this solely for educational purposes
and does not support or oppose candidates for public office.
See the CBN News story, “How California Fuels Its Own Fires: ‘Families Suffering Trauma and Harm Because of Bad State Government'” (this story includes California Congressman Tom McClintock’s expert explanation of how wildfires quickly spread because “our forests are catastrophically overgrown.”
The Carr Fire in Shasta County is the 7th most destructive fire in California history, killing at least 6 people and destroying 2,546 structures, including homes and businesses.
And that’s just 1 of 17 “uncontained” wildfires up and down California right now.
In 2017, there were 9,133 separate wildfires in California; so far in 2018, there have been 4,457 separate wildfires in the formerly Golden State (now the “Burning Up State”). Do you accept this? If not, why do “environmentalist” politicians (known mostly as Democrats)?
It used to be that responsible politicians believed Smokey Bear’s reality-based message, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” But now, too many “progressive” politicians silently excuse evil pyromaniacs and negligent transients, and publicly blame “climate change” instead. They’re feigning sympathy while people’s lives and property are going up in smoke.
This is totally unacceptable. California families are suffering trauma and harm because of a bad state government. If 2017’s fires weren’t enough, will you demand that California’s Democrat politicians stop claiming that year-round wildfires are “the new normal”? Don’t let them deceive you. What if politicians claimed there was nothing they could do to prevent violent crime?
Candidates running for state office in California need to answer this question: “What will you do to prevent wildfires?” If they blame “climate change” or just say more funding is needed, this election year is your opportunity to fire them or replace them due to their lackluster attitude about wildfires that are directly harming California families.
There ought to be new fire-prevention laws, like these:
1. Publicize and impose new stiff penalties, including prison time, for people who cause wildfires either through neglect or pyromania. Since uncaring transients and evil boys and young men are likely perpetrators of most of the California wildfires, every government “homeless” agency needs to hand pamphlets to every transient they see and every government school must drum into the heads of children why we need to “love our neighbor” and why setting fires is wrong. Church schools can and should add fear of God and that God is watching.
2. Clear out dead trees, bushes and brush from all “public” lands in California. Get rid of this dry wood and grass that easily spread fires, because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Do it despite the opposition of “environmental groups,” which apparently value dead plants more than live people.
3. Pass a new law requiring a wide-enough barrier between hillside homes and wild brush to stop the spread of flames and sparks. Since wind-borne sparks can jump freeways, the barrier needs to be at least that wide. A wide-enough width must be studied, because people and their property matter more than weeds and wildbrush. Any Democrat politician who bows to opposition environmental groups on this is not a “public servant.”
4. Purchase many more planes and helicopters that can fight wildfires better and faster. This can be done using existing funds, but liberals are loathe to cut government waste, aren’t they? Republican state legislators should introduce bills cutting waste, fraud, and abuse and spend the saved money on a new quick-response, wildfire “air force” for California. Even if the ruling Democrats kill these Republican bills, the Republicans could publicly pressure the Democrats to come up with their own bill to buy more planes and copters and station them in high-risk areas of the state.
Bottom line, Californians of all political stripes need to demand that our elected officials PREVENT wildfires in the future, and stop irresponsibly excusing themselves because the official fire report reads “cause unknown.” It’s like a corrupt and lazy police force that never names or arrests suspected criminals!
As many as 90 percent of wildland fires in the United States are caused by humans. Human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, negligently discarded cigarettes, and intentional acts of arson.
Wildfire Causes, U.S Dept. of the Interior
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