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Affordability

There is no single reason for all affordability issues across California and U.S. However there are common themes.

  • Monopolies across the board are manipulating pricing, from healthcare, food, housing, insurances, film industry, to transportation.
  • Government corruption allows market manipulation
  • Government waste and fraud adds to infrastructure rot that makes utilities expensive
  • California lawyering and frivolous legal system costs residents at least $50 billion/year in extra insurance, healthcare and other costs.

Solutions

  • Well-paying jobs, jobs, jobs: Big corporations are decimating small businesses that are the main source of jobs, revenue and opportunities for young and average people.
  • Breakup monopolies across the board. Monopolies have always been illegal for a reason but they bribe the party politicians to ignore it.
  • Audit all government spending from state to local and end all waste and fraud. That will provide at least $50 billion to $80 billion of savings to taxpayers each year to go directly to infrastructure, homeless and direct subsidies to taxpayers
  • Reform the lawyering industry in California to stop frivolous legal action.
  • Put resident owned California farms and ranches before mega corporations of all industries. Breakup the monopoly of water in California.

Shortage of housing in California?

In 2012 we had 800,000 more housing units than households when there were too many houses.

By 2024 that gap grew to 1.2 million more housing units than households. (Google it)

The problem is not building more dense housing. The problems are:

  • Government’s huge taxpayer funded incentives to large landlords
  • Short-term rentals and all units built specifically for Airbnb
  • Investor monopolies of housing
  • Building housing that residents don’t want, in locations they don’t want to live in.
  • Mega corporations all moving to the most overpriced and overcrowded areas

Solutions

  • Stop using taxpayer money to pay mega landlords
  • Breakup investor monopolies by any means
  • No property tax for full-time resident’s primary home and push that to investor owned who currently pay no taxes
  • Put meaningful restrictions on short-term rentals until housing is fixed
  • Force mega corporations to move to where people live, not the opposite
  • For the next 2 years offer direct subsidies to people who cannot afford rent instead of paying the landlords

Homeless

California is world’s largest homeless factory. We create more homeless than we can possibly house or help. This trend needs to stop.

  • Address affordability and housing manipulation
  • Reduce drugs on streets
  • Treat the homeless like human, not garbage to be thrown into a bin away from us and forgotten.
  • Make housing and treatment mandatory for the time being.
  • Audit money wasted in the name of the homeless and put it directly to use
  • Hold lawyers and NGOs who have pocketed 10s$ of billions of money for homeless accountable and take that money back for good use.

Public Safety

California is epicenter of playing politics with public safety.

  • Fully fund police departments, crime labs and reverse the years of funding going to administrative tasks back into law enforcement
  • Implement the strongest accountability and transparency of police departments in history to restore the trust of the communities in police.
  • Give law enforcement the backing it needs to their job with competence, confidence and accountability to public.
  • Audit the lawyering and judicial system in California for unethical and incompetent behavior and take action on accountability
  • All illegal activities are illegal (period).
  • Create better prison rehabilitation programs and better paths out of prison
  • Improve affordability and reduce drugs which will automatically reduce crime
  • Bring back public and individual responsibility. Condoning harassing behavior such as loud pipes on cars and street take overs has resulted in spread of social decay.
  • It’s absolutely the duty of California government to protect our residents’ safety. Any threat from individuals, including government sponsored individuals must be dealt with in the same manner.

Education

California has the best higher education programs and one of the worst K-12 education. This system is clearly designed to benefit the elite in and out of our state.

  • Our school teachers and educators need to get paid better (period).
  • Our K-12 buildings are neglected and need upgrades.
  • Public pre-k and after school childcare is needed. Even if it is partially subsidized.
  • Get drugs off the streets and away from our children
  • Disparities between poor and rich neighborhood schools is unacceptable and must be addressed (period).
  • Improve school programs to serve all children from remedial to gifted
  • Audit all state and community colleges for waste and bring tuitions under control
  • Money wasted by frivolous projects can pay for all of these without extra taxes.

Healthcare

California has the best hospitals, doctors and nurses in the world, and yet 90% of California residents cannot get decent healthcare. This system is clearly designed to work for the elite at the cost of everyone else.

  • Monopolies: Each community only has access to 1 or 2 healthcare systems. They set the price for consumers and what the doctors get.
  • Subscription model: You pay a monthly subscription just like Netflix, for the privilege of having access to one monopoly’s hospitals and doctors. And you have no other choices and they choose what care you get and the price.
  • Unethical and frivolous lawyering is one of the main causes of affordability.
  • Mega monopolies have huge administrative and management costs at the top

Solutions

  • Breakup the monopolies including pharmacies.
  • Or replace it with single-payer. If we only have one or two choices in each community, we may as well have one single-payer.
  • Provide non-profit or government built clinics and pharmacies in under-served communities
  • Reform the frivolous California lawyering industry that is raising healthcare costs

Environment, energy and fire prevention

California has gone from the top environmental state to one of the most polluted, outpacing the reddest states while our leaders have feigned environmentalism for years.

  • Clearly EVs are not enough to reduce pollution. Let scientists, engineers, chemists and true environmentalists guide the way, not politicians and their rich donors.
  • Improve infrastructure for clean energy which has been neglected for years.
  • Absolutely no drilling off the coast
  • Reduce, reduce, reduce. Including the huge piles of consumer goods shipped from thousands of miles away which mostly go to waste.
  • Cut the funding waste and fraud in the name of environmentalism and use that money directly to clean the water, land and air
  • Work with energy companies to move refineries and plants to unpopulated areas and away from agricultural land and nature preserves.
  • We will have more fires, be it arson by drug addicts as we saw in Palisades (2005) and San Bernardino (2004), or utilities and wildfires. We must be ready for it. More fire fighters, more and better equipment, more water reserves, better logistics, better oversight, better evacuation plans, more cooperation from all emergency responders across the state and across the country.
  • We must break up the home insurance monopolies and have more financial reserves for all disasters including earthquake and fire.

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