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What’s the cause?

The County is run as a feudal principality. A few score campaign contributors and other nobles own the County. The County is run for their benefit. Certainly not for the public’s.
The courtiers—the middle managers who do the nobles’ bidding—are the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.

The Supervisors are master of political theatre. They embrace the ceremony of public service while viewing the citizens and taxpayers as disenfranchised peasants.

The peasants—the citizens–are a time wasting distraction to the Supervisors’ real mission: building up their own feudal estates (big benefits packages) even as they scramble for political and social advancement.

The Supervisors in fact have little real power; often less so than their subalterns: the Agency and department heads who are the real executors of the nobles’ wishes.

For example, County Counsel’s job is to serve as a kind of court jester whose job preservation depends on making a mockery of honest governance by creating legal cover for the unethical and extra legal acts of the Supervisors and other agencies, particularly the Water Agency.

The Water Agency– the feudal equivalent of the village tax collector who robs the poor to feed the rich– has a huge discretionary budget and serves as bursar for the County’s nobles who direct the Water Agency’s payments to the nobles’ friends and associates under the guise of rigged, no bid contracts.

The Auditor Controller is the feudal equivalent of a corrupt sheriff, the supposed defender of public order. The Auditor Controller looks the other way while the nobles, their puppeted Supervisors, and the Agency heads steal the public blind.

Might this be the cause of our roads, pensions and other symptoms?

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Crash the old.

Usher in the new.

Why does someone like me have to print a newspaper to inform about something that we should be sick of talking about by now?

Why doesn’t our representation feel obligated to inform their constituents?

Answer: because they no longer work for us…

They work for THEM.

http://thenorthbayindependent.org/

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UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.

The 800 lb. gorilla in the room.

As long as we are adherent to globalist ‘planning’ through ICLEI and these other treasonous Council Of Governments (COG; NGOs despite their names) there will always be lack and shortages for everything other than rail, Smart Growth, everything they dictate.

Everything important to us will go without, or require our subsidizing, or be eliminated.

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ANOTHER cop has just been arrested and being prosecuted for multiple sexual assaults of women between the ages of 21 and mid 40′s WHILE IN UNIFORM.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/26/5217157/police-officer-sergio-alvarez.html#disqus_thread

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Institute For The Future
This is not a typical Tavistock institution in that it is funded by the Ford Foundation, yet it draws its long-range forecasting from the mother of all think tanks. Institute for the Future projects what it believes to be changes that will be taking place in time frames of fifty years. So called “DELPHI PANELS” decide what is normal and what is not, and prepare position papers to “steer” government in the right direction to head off such groups as “people creating civil disorder.” (This could be patriotic groups demanding abolition of graduated taxes, or demanding that their right to bear arms is not infringed.) This institute recommends action such as liberalizing abortion laws, drug usage and that cars entering an urban area pay tolls, teaching birth control in public schools, requiring registration of firearms, making use of drugs a non-criminal offense, legalizing homosexuality, paying students for scholastic achievements, making zoning controls a preserve of the state, offering bonuses for family planning and last, but most frightening, a Pol Pot Cambodia-style proposal that new communities be established in rural areas, (concentration camp compounds). As can be observed, many of their goals have already been more than fully realized.

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More taxes WILL NT FIX IT. Rural roads and landowners will eventually be REMOVED.

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When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat. ~Ronald Reagan

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Unfortunately, the user pays principle has been muddied when governments use the money from gas taxes and bridge tolls to fund things unrelated to why the tax or toll was collected. This makes it easier to oppose an increase in the gas tax. “Heck, the money will just be used to subsidize empty buses.”

So, our roads deteriorate. And anyone who proposes an equitable solution stands no chance of being elected to anything.

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Mr. Golis states: ( the problems are due to) An antiquated tax system, ( should we pay
even more?) short sided politicians,( the progressives supported by the P.D.) decades of
neglect,( same politicians) higher costs( inflation) and a recession (more like a depression).

I see the facts differently. I see the $1.6 Billion dollars of debt in Sonoma County for the
defined benefit pension plan for Sonoma County employees as No.1 on the list of causes.
In fact, our County sold bonds intended for infrastructure replacement and used the money
on the pension. This same pension was found to be illegal by a Sonoma County Grand
Jury. The priorities, in my opinion, are one ended and selfish. The health and safety of our
Citizens come before illegal pensions, and the subsequent political contributions by unions
that come with the pension scheme.

To back up these opinions, one just needs to click on the “Pensions” button on the
navigation bar in this site.

In my opinion, the decisions to turn off street lights at busy intersections, the decisions not
to replace the stripping on roads and the decisions not to surface failing pavement are
criminal, when accidents occur, that injure,kill or cause property damage.
Those responsible for such decisions, elected officials who vote on the funding and those
who hold professional licenses, should face a judge and jury.

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This is a pattern in this county. Culling and cutting the real workers who provide services to the public and ADDING MORE MANAGEMENT. This has to stop. VERY EXPENSIVE Contracting out Queen Bee Zane and her sidekick Rabbitt are very busy okaying everything that the managers bring to them. More and more managers every month, fewer and fewer rank and file. The public needs to demand from their BOS member to stop hiring managers and provide more, CHEAPER, rank and file workers to provide valuable public services. An initiative will be in the works to MAKE this county change its management to staff ratio. Look for the petition and sign it! We could use one for all California governments. If we want better quality public services then we need workers not more expensive high pension managers.

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