For some reason I didn’t think we were voting until November, but I was wrong. Not only is it a primary to decide who wins the nomination for each party, but there are also two big money propositions on the ballot.

No on Prop 81 – $600 million dollars in BONDS to renovate libraries = bad idea. I’m all for public libraries and the cities where they are located paying for them, but selling bonds is always a dumb idea. Selling bonds to pay for this is like taking out a loan, and ultimately it makes the whole thing cost twice as much. That’s over a billion dollars to renovate libraries. In 1986 the state owed $4 billion in bonds, but now we owe over $50 billion! (cool site) If we don’t budget the money to pay for it, then it should have to wait. Unfortunately voters see "money for libraries" and think it’s just dandy.

No on Prop 82 – Preschool is fine if you want it, but don’t force the wealthy to pay to send kids to some cheesy "school" that won’t make much of a difference, if any at all. Rob Reiner is the proponent of this one, so that automatically makes my vote a NO. There is already too much government involvement in education, so let’s not make it worse.

Other than that I’ll be voting Arnold for Governor and Tom McClintock for Lieutenant Governor (both will win the nominations because everyone else are no names). I honestly have no idea who any of the other people on the ballot are, so I probably just won’t vote for any of them.

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The November election is still five months away, but the commercials have already started. Prop 82 would create a universal preschool program. I’m too tired to get in depth and weigh the pros and cons, but it’s a total crock and a perfect example of what is wrong with our political system.

We’re supposed to believe that a universal preschool system would be the catalyst needed to get children off on the right foot. While I’m sure preschool doesn’t hurt a child’s development, but it’s crap to believe that all the screwed up students in our K-12 system would be "fixed" if they’d gone to preschool. It would cost $2.4 billion, coming from taxes on evil wealthy people. According to a commercial I saw it calls for "qualified" teachers (whatever that means). Since when does it take a rocket scientist to teach finger painting?

The even larger problem I have with this proposition is the inherent nature that government has to get bigger. Idiots like Rob Reiner are bored and start campaigning for preschool and a huge new government bureaucracy. The government never shrinks, it’s always just growing and bloating. We should see propositions like "Stop all government handouts to lazy people."