I may not be living in an utopia like the far left folk who want free rides, but fees going upto 20k a year does frustrate us all. 

From prior experiences for the last five years, I think the best idea might be web conferences. No matter what campus the UC Regents meet, it should be done via teleconference because demonstrations are going to happen until we get back to stable fees that the average Californian can afford.

It might mean we might have to pare down the layers of administration, maybe have a 30% Online, 70% in campus degree program to save on costs. It might mean begging the state legislators to be pro-business so we can bring forth the revenue to make UC affordable instead of taxing our way to salvation.

Thanks to Top 2, if people knew Gary Miller’s policy positions, he will do just as bad as former Senator Santorum.

What is Congressional District 31 (2011)

41% Democratic, 37% Republican, 18% Decline to State with a history of people voting for Democratic Party candidates for President and Governor.

I think this will be a suicide run for Gary Miller, and I thought he was a prudent businessman and knew when to pull in and pull out.

56 Obama, 41 McCain, 49 Brown 42 Whitman

If he wanted to waste money, it would be better to give money to the local food bank or animal shelters.

I introduce merit pay proposal for our state legislators. Legislators would be wanting to create jobs and increase revenue without raising tax rates. If you chase away taxpayers and companies from settling away from your state, do not expect a pay raise.

Here are the key points:

Unemployment rate would have a target for 7 percent.

There would be a bonus for getting the unemployment rate down 1% statewide, each 1% reduced from the previous year’s Unemployment rate to the target unemployment rate would give a legislator 1000 for each percent.

If a budget deficit is basically perfect with a 0.25% error rate, a legislator would earn 2000 dollars.

If state revenue goes up without a sales tax increase, income tax increase or corporation tax increase then the legislator would earn another 2000 dollar bonus. State revenue must rise above 50 million dollars to qualify for this clause.

If the number of companies that make over 200,000 a year enter California more than them leaving our state the legislator would qualify for a 1000.00 bonus too.

Money talks, this may only be a rough draft of a policy proposal. However Democrats need to recognize that the legislation they pass does have an effect on our state. Democrats do like to make the state in their own utopia and I can understand that, but the idea is to encourage the legislators to THINK before they pass their laws.

http://munsoncampaign.org/2011/12/25/real-priorities-first/

Create jobs, and end the big wedge against California’s diverse population.

http://munsoncampaign.org/2011/12/24/on-illegal-immigration-and-education/

Even if we wanted to give aid to undocumented college students, they will not be able to get jobs as biologists and architects without the proper immigration status. So we are just throwing money away that we can not afford to lose.

My blog has links to the recent Munson for State Assembly articles for your convenience on the right side of the blog.

Do you not like who is running for office for the Republican Party? become a Republican. Tired of statists like Newt Gingrich or double speaking candidates like Mitt Romney, become a Republican.

Candidates such as Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman and Buddy Roemer would appreciate your support.

Fortunately in California you would be able to sign my nomination petition for State Assembly as a Democratic Party member or a Decline to State voter due to the new Prop 14 Open primaries, but if you want to vote to decide who will be the Republican nominee you have to make the switch as soon as you can. And a month later Election Day in June 2012 if you don’t like us, you can wash off those Republican cooties as soon as you can.

Here is some information on voter registration for California.

Tesco does have attractive products they brought over or developed to their stores and these stores they have in our neighborhoods are inviting and decent places to shop.

However Tesco is double faced like many multinationals who cheerfully allow for labor unions in their home countries, but love to be non union in the United States such as T-Mobile. I could support the right for a company to be non-union, but they should be non-union entirely. If Tesco can work under labor unions in the United Kingdom they should do the same in the United States.

I am also wondering why UFCW Local 770 has not targeted Trader Joes or even Superior Markets and saved most of their rancor on Tesco. Maybe because Tesco is a wealthy multinational and that is why they are a prime target. However Trader Joes is owned by a huge multinational as well, Aldi in Germany.

Also, our very left winged state legislature knee capped Fresh and Easy to make it where a full service checker needs to serve the alcohol purchase from start to finish, which was designed to cripple Fresh and Easy.

I know we want more jobs that provide affordable health care since we do not have universal health care in our nation and jobs that provide living wages. However unions are not doing this for free either. Unions want the union dues from the employees at Fresh and Easy. I wish there was a neutral arbitrator that would conduct the elections free from bias from the corporation and the union. National Labor Relations Board is not neutral at all, if a Republican runs it its management owned and if a Democratic administration runs it is labor owned.

I do shop the union represented Stater Brothers. Maybe if the other companies that are represented by UFCW were ran like Stater Brothers maybe we would not have much a problem.

Wonder why grandma never came to your house on Christmas Day?

I think the best solution is personal responsibility, if you can not pay the loans off in a reasonable fashion or at least pay half of the cost back you should reconsider the program you enroll for.

Borrowing 100,000 for a BA degree is silly if you are not going to have the ability or future potential to pay the fees. Yes, we need to reasonably fund our state universities. Fees went up 125% since I last went to UC Riverside. Yes, I believe we should not give free rides entirely. However fees should go back to 7 or 8 thousand instead of 12 thousand for the University of California as an example.

Basically all I am asking for is people to borrow what they can reasonably pay off. I know student loan debt is a crippling burden and the legal rules stating that students can not declare bankruptcy makes it hard for students to write off this debt. I think limiting how much students can borrow in exchange for being allowed to declare bankruptcy after all avenues are exhausted would be a good idea.

Senator Feinstein should reconsider her support of the Protect IP bill; this bill claims to protect the intellectual property rights of the owners of creative work. However Protect IP will do more collateral damage to the technology industry at the same time which helps to employ countless Californians from Facebook, Google and Twitter to name a few.

Destroying the Internet by giving the recording, movie and pharmaceutical industry veto power will not create jobs or help our economy particularly in California. Less entrepreneurs willing to take a risk online this means less jobs and opportunity to recover from the recession.

Matthew Munson

Ontario, California

If you liked Proposition 19 and you are disappointed that it did not pass in 2010, find out about this new ballot measure that is coming our way. This ballot measure does more things than what Proposition 19 and the medical legalization initiative Proposition 215.

The prohibition of marijuana would be eliminated for adults, allows for hemp agriculture and products which bill was vetoed by Governor Brown recently. This measure does not change laws about use by minors, medical use, workplace use or impairment while using marijuana.

The same infrastructure that is used to regulate beer and wine would be the same infrastructure to regulate marijuana.

Prevents the state and local agencies from cooperating with the federal government in dealing with marijuana issues.

Allows for reasonable number of plants  12 outdoors or 24 indoors to be grown in a household for personal use not for sale. Also, these plants must be cultivated in an area not visible to the general public.

The current war on drugs has failed, we are stuffing people into prisons and drug cartels are causing problems due to our prohibition of marijuana just like gangsters plagued our cities during the days of alcohol prohibition. We spend too much money on this drug war on marijuana, but can not afford to do other police activities in our cities such as dealing with the rapists and murderers that exist in society.

Help our economy, reduce crime, and prevent access to the drug for our youth. Visit the official site and sign a petition as soon as possible.