Last week California was lucky enough to have yet another special election. This one was to decide if we should borrow a crapload of money from ourselves to pay off the debt from when we've spent way too much money on ourselves. Overwhelmingly California decided that they didn't much like the idea of robbing Peter to pay Paul and in a rough margin of 65% - 35% we voted no (who were the 35% who thought taking out a bunch of loans was a good idea anyway?) We've been told for a couple years ago that those pay-day advance loans are a horrible idea but isn't that pretty much what we voted on? Almost every proposition was to borrow a large sum of money now and pay it back in a couple years with interest. But where in the next couple years is this money going to come from? Is there a money tree behind the capitol building that's just not quite mature yet? Its really sad that the best idea our elected officials can come up with for a solution is to borrow money. No thoughts of trimming pork, cutting programs, or curbing waste. Nope, just borrow with absolutely no thought of how to pay it back.

Voter turn out was a record breaker for low numbers. Only one county, Sierra, went above 50% (51% actually), while most counties had about 33% turn out. Butte had a 30.3% turn out, so I guess we were about average. Imperial county had the lowest turn out, 15.1%. Amazing.

I think we as citizens of this state are just apathetic. We've seen too many times election results that turn out to mean nothing. We vote one way, the state says "yeah, but we're sure you didn't mean it quite like THAT" and they do it their way anyway. Its just too much care anymore. Unless we can get some different politicians, some new blood, in the capitol things just wont change.