While there are many positive ideas in this poll, it revolves around how to fund what government wants to do - to spend money on: how to rearrange the deck chairs on this Titanic called California. I don't see SPENDING CUTTING. I hear locally about closing libraries, laying off police, firemen & the Holy Grail, teachers. State and local employees have hours cut - how many state, county 'executives' and their staffs have their time/pay cut? How many state/county cars are taken out of service, how many 'fact-finding' trips or junkets are cut? How much state/county unneeded property is being sold - adding to income, cutting maintenance costs? By the way, how did you all get to Sacramento? Where are you staying and who's paying the bill? I am not alone in being upset by the state of California and county's condition - I'm sure I express the feelings of many. We are all having to cut back, lose homes, jobs, promising futures because of this situation. We do this because we have no choice - not to pay more to government and get less for it. EVERYONE in government needs to take the financial hit too. EVERYONE!__