122 Comments, 97 Threads

1. 1. ers

   Great list. By all means, let’s start chopping. Let’s see… Maybe start with all the universities. Follow that up with the Dept of Corrections and the Department of Justice.

   August 10, 2011 - 10:17 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • Robo

     …Maybe start with all the universities. Follow that up with the Dept of Corrections and the Department of Justice….

     Actually, CA is so dysfunctional even chopping those would help as it would in one fell swoop get rid us of Unions that lobby for laws that lock up people for growing vegetables in their front yard, prevent people from getting an education that is worthwhile or trying to grow a small business. Arnie was right about blowing up the boxes, but he chicken’d out when the got the blackmail goods on him for nanny abuse.

     Break it up into 4 states and let the People’s Republic of SF&Bezerkly merge with their ideological soulmates in Cuba

     August 11, 2011 - 5:19 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
     • Lester

       The solution for UC is to admit more out of state students. Pretty soon only minorities on AA financial aid and out of state students will attend the better UC institutions.

       August 11, 2011 - 6:27 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

       

       
       • mark reardon

         My kid will go to college next year. The very first decision we made was ‘not in California’. This despite their participation in a western confederation that would give us a break on tuition and the fact tha my loving spouse is a California gal at heart.

         August 11, 2011 - 5:29 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

         

         
     • Anonymous

       I totaly agree. CA needsto drop thier pro illegal immigration policies, and anti military love

       August 11, 2011 - 6:50 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

       

       
       • R. RDDB

         Calif. Short for Call it Fornication. The latest fad or Hobby, is lobbyist Lobby=law makers. History is being re-rewritten without the scientific method.

         I am a full blooded born California Girl, Pro Legal Immigration, Pro Military . The young & old immigrants have not taken English 101, they leave soiled diapers on the shores of the American River in the Northern part of my State along with broken glass.

         So , FrontLine needs to do a expose` on lobbyist’s going back a few decades & we need a re-run with Steven Hawking. I like his eye.(perspective).
         P.S. I have researched God for many years and have a hypothesis/theory. He aborted his first and his last.

         August 15, 2011 - 5:00 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

         

         
   • Boyd

     Washington Monument Syndrome, also called the “Mount Rushmore Syndrome”, is the name of a political tactic allegedly used by government agencies when faced with reductions in the rate of projected increases in budget or actual budget cuts. The most visible and most appreciated service that is provided by that entity is the first to be put on the chopping block.

     That’s all you got? I’m ready to call your bluff.

     August 11, 2011 - 5:29 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
     • Francis W. Porretto

       I’ve taken to calling it the Washington Monument Defense, because of the more, ah, evocative acronym.

       August 11, 2011 - 7:59 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

       

       
   • Boyd

     or … quoting Glenn Reynolds. “so you want to destroy the education system and release criminals onto the streets?” No, that’s how things work now.

     August 11, 2011 - 5:57 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
   • Tommy Shanks

     I see your logic there, ers. If you’re going to cut, it must be from the agencies with the most utility. All the useless agencies must continue to exist with Jerry Pournelle’s 3% growth every year. Makes sense to me!

     August 11, 2011 - 6:58 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
     • Nathan

       I think you mean Jerry Brown.

       August 11, 2011 - 7:39 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

       

       
   • richard40

     It might be useful to take a statewide poll. List each agency, and ask each person put it into one of 4 categories:

     1. This agency is necessary and should not be cut.
     2. I have heard of this agency, and they occasionally do some good work. Retain the agency, but consider some cuts to their budget.
     3. Never heard of them, dont see how anything they do benefits me. They should be abolished.
     4. I have heard of this agency, and hate most of what it does, and would love to see it abolished.

     To give each agency a legidimate change to justify their existence there should be an online web site where anybody can look up any agency and get a statement from the agency head justifying how the agency is necessary and the good work it does. That way, any respondent to the poll can be fully informed before they vote on each agency.

     Then abolish any agency that does not get a majority vote for category 1 or 2. Any category 2 agency gets a 30% cut. I suspect this should stop the typical Washington Monument response, and would save a huge amount of money. If any surplus state money is still left after the agency abolition and cutting, then the legislature is allowed to resurect or restore funding to any agency that they beleive does good, but only from the surplus still left, or by including a cut to some other agency.

     August 12, 2011 - 11:53 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
     • Elya

       Ha. Rots a Ruck! How many of those “citizens” in California would undermine their dependence on those agencies?

       August 13, 2011 - 1:10 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

       

       
   • JR

     One of the last department to “Go” would be The Department of Corrections. It is a State Commissioned position and is, for the lack of a better term, the very very last job to go, just before a S.H.T.F. and/or National Disaster. If a department such as this ever does close, you are just a couple days shy of total economic collapse and chaos. So be careful what you wish for. And just by chance you already knew this, I have to ask; What’s the matter? The mattresses a little too think for your welfare arse?

     August 13, 2011 - 5:14 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
2. 2. David W. Nicholas

   ers brings up a good point, whether he intended to or not. We have this ridiculous list of wasteful, duplicate bureaucracy that just sucks up money and grows more bloated by the year, but if anyone suggests cutting the budget, the first thing that occurs is student tuition at our universities goes up, classroom size in schools goes up, libraries close, and there are fewer police or firefighters. As far as our Democrat state politicians are concerned, those are the only areas where cuts can be made. None of these redundant bureaucracies can ever lose a penny from their projected increases in budget each year, because that would be sacrilege. So the public learns that the budget needs to increase at an almost exponential speed, every year, until all of our money goes to maintain these guys in the style to which they’ve become accustomed…

   Sort of pitiful, isn’t it?

   August 10, 2011 - 10:31 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • MissAnthropy

     This tendency you speak of, that cuts must necessarily affect the most useful and high profile public services first, is nothing more than vindictive “punishment” by bureaucrats guarding their sinecure. It’s their way of lashing out at the citizenry for having the unmitigated temerity to think that a malignant tumor is in fact not the best fiscal model for government.

     So yes, cutting any of the hundreds of useless agencies in this list automatically means you want people’s houses to burn down for lack of an adequately funded fire department.

     Fortunately for California bureaucrats, their citizenry demonstrated some of that famous California going-against-the-grain trait and rather than slam the brakes like so many other states last November, they positively doubled down on stupid.

     August 13, 2011 - 1:36 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
3. 3. A. N Pierson

   Whatever you do – don’t cut the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology.

   August 10, 2011 - 10:34 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
4. 4. frank martin

   Remember the Python sketch “The Crimson Public Assurance Company”, where the company has the wall of names that make up the conglomerate? It reminds me of that…

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Permanent_Assurance

   August 10, 2011 - 11:09 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
5. 5. frank martin

   And remember folks, California has the largest known, explored and ready to pump oil reserves in the world – On land! Offshore we have the largest untapped oil fields in the world.

   We also have refineries and very large ports in which to ship oil to any market willing to buy it.

   Try to keep that in mind when someone says we don’t have enough money in the budget in the State of California. Try not to think about the people of Alaska who get a dividend check every year for the oil that comes out of that state, as well as the complete lack of a need for State Income taxes.

   August 10, 2011 - 11:21 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • Loghouse

     Let’s just seize CA and take the oil!!

     August 11, 2011 - 7:01 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
   • daxypoo

     california in its natural state is an economic powerhouse

     only the ham-fisted intervention of stupidity, ill-will, and misanthropy can create this current cesspool

     August 11, 2011 - 8:16 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
6. 6. James Green

   My favorite:
   * California Volunteers *

   …sounds so altruistic, doesn’t it?

   August 10, 2011 - 11:59 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
7. 7. Lydia

   California Commission on the Status of Women
   “Well boss they got two boobs and a you know what.Do i get a raise this year?”

   California Economic Strategy Panel Really?

   California Opinion Unit hmm what are opinions like?

   California Office of the Ombudsman Bud lite for me please.

   California Legislative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Caucus ,posts picts —> California Legislature Internet Caucus ,for the -California Office of Fleet Administration

   ok,i’ll stop.

   August 11, 2011 - 1:27 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
8. 8. charles

   I’m partial to the Lieutenant Governor’s Commission for One California, which is charged with “exploring ways in which the media and our schools can foster tolerance.” What better use of taxpayer dollars than setting up Islamists and gay rights activists in cozy government sinecures.

   August 11, 2011 - 3:59 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • Lester

     You are correct. Most of these diversity programs are to find jobs for minorities that could not get salaries like this in the private sector.

     August 11, 2011 - 6:29 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
9. 9. Wigglesworth

   It is the same here in Massachusetts only on a smaller scale. There are tens of thousands of do-nothing jobs given to political hacks

   August 11, 2011 - 5:07 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • CR

     Actually, Massachusetts fares pretty well in the “fiscal conservative” department. While there is plenty of waste, graft and patronage on Beacon Hill our state is a far sight away from being the taxpayer and deficit h@|| of CA, IL, NY, NJ or RI.

     Now if we could only do something about the consecutive stream of House Speakers doing time for corruption…

     August 11, 2011 - 9:26 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
10. 10. Jack

    I have two words for that. In. Sane.

    It didn’t happen all at once, just one step at a time. Just goes to show that it is real easy to spend other people’s money. Especially when the state takes it from them.

    August 11, 2011 - 5:13 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
11. 11. Robert

    I seem to find the “California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists” to be my favorite, but there are so many to choose from!

    August 11, 2011 - 5:15 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
12. 12. Horologium

    An astonishing (and frightening) list, but the California Commission on the Status of Women is listed twice, once without the “the” in the middle.

    August 11, 2011 - 5:36 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
13. 13. cubanbob

    Eliminate half of them and no one would notice other than the state workers fired.

    August 11, 2011 - 5:36 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
14. 14. alphonse

    Wow. And they all have SWAT teams?

    August 11, 2011 - 5:43 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
15. 15. The Comedian

    California doesn’t seem to be trying hard enough.

    Connecticut had, as of February 2011, 87,761 full time employees & 13,291 part time employees serving a state population of just over 3.5 million residents.

    Scaled up by population this would mean that California would have to employ over 900,000 full time and over 130,000 part time state employees to have the same number of state employees per resident.

    Source: http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2011/02/so-how-many-state-employees-ar.html — CT has been laying off a lot of folks in the past few months, and defunding many empty job slots, but the number has changed less that 5%.

    August 11, 2011 - 5:45 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
16. 16. Iowa Jim

    Those agencies are some of the many reasons that I’ve been Iowa Jim instead of Silicon Valley Jim for fifteen months now.

    August 11, 2011 - 5:46 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
17. 17. The Comedian

    California doesn’t seem to be trying hard enough.

    Connecticut had, as of February 2011, 87,761 full time employees & 13,291 part time employees serving a state population of just over 3.5 million residents.

    Scaled up by population this would mean that California would have to employ over 900,000 full time and over 130,000 part time state employees to have the same number of state employees per resident.

    Source: http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2011/02/so-how-many-state-employees-ar.html — CT has been laying off a lot of folks in the past few months, and defunding many empty job slots, but the number has changed less that 5%.

    (May be a duplicate. My apologies if it is.)

    August 11, 2011 - 5:46 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
18. 18. tim maguire

    How many is that? Where is the Department for Counting the Departments when you need it?

    August 11, 2011 - 5:59 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
    • Crawdad

      Don’t go giving them any ideas. No, seriously.

      August 11, 2011 - 10:57 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

      

      
19. 19. JeffV

    Well, to be realistic about it, each one of these agencies does or at one time did something useful. I’m guessing most of them employ too many people or are poorly run or have outlived their usefullness or whatever and each one needs to be examined in detail and streamlined, outsources, revised, eliminated or combined. The length of this list illistrated what a huge undertaking it really is to reform California. Eliminating half the agencies with the stroke of a pen my sound like great fun, but its really not a workable solution that would have great unintended consequences. I’m not sure, for instance, what the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau really does since most cemitaries are city-run or privately run affairs, but just eliminateing it without forthought may result in bodies piling up somewhere. It’s a big job that requires stick-to-it-ivness and political will.

    August 11, 2011 - 6:12 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
    • Shocked

      So what agency do you work for. The idea that all of these were ever useful at some time is laughable.

      August 11, 2011 - 12:42 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

      

      
20. 20. Karl Hungus

    As Joe Biden would say…one word: SUNSET LAWS

    If we have to sunset “keeping our own money” (i.e the Bush Tax cuts) then let’s sunset everything that isn’t a core government responsibility (military, fire dept., police dept.). Make them justify every department every 5 years and no baseline budgeting — start from scratch every year.

    August 11, 2011 - 6:34 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
21. 21. Missy

    AND people wonder why everyone is fed up and want cuts – you are just not going to tell me there isn’t waste in these agencies….you just can’t say that with a straight face, can you?

    August 11, 2011 - 6:48 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
22. 22. SoupOrMan

    “California Office of AIDS”

    I’m really hoping that’s an office dedicated to prevention and not promotion.

    August 11, 2011 - 6:48 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
    • sealionii

      Same for the California Fraud Division.

      August 11, 2011 - 7:09 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

      

      
23. 23. Brad

    I noticed two tragic omissions. There is a California Democratic Caucus and California Republican Caucus, and there is a California *Assembly* Democratic Caucus and a California *Assembly* Republican Caucus, but there is no California *Senate* Democratic Caucus or California *Senate* Republican Caucus! How in the world have they managed to operate all these years without them?

    August 11, 2011 - 6:50 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
24. 24. Hucklebuck

    “California Spatial Information Library” is the undoubted winner. It’s probably just down the hall from the Bureau of Arguments.

    August 11, 2011 - 6:53 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
25. 25. Tommy Shanks

    If you look hard enough you can find the California Department of Redundancy Department.

    August 11, 2011 - 6:54 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
26. 26. Mark in Texas

    At some point in may be necassary to cut back on entitlements like Medicare and Social Security which will cause real pain to people who depend on those programs. If we don’t cut back or eliminate the dozens of government agencies who’s titles provoke laughter before we think of touching Social Security or medicare, that is a strong indication of very skewed priorities and something wrong with the values of people making the decisions to keep politically connected cronies in seat warmer jobs while cutting medical care or rent money for old people.

    August 11, 2011 - 7:03 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
27. 27. Bonatti

    By my count (cut ‘n pasted the entire text into word and did a search for *) there are 519 of these darn things.

    August 11, 2011 - 7:19 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
28. 28. Kelly

    Cut anything, but please don’t take away the California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists!

    August 11, 2011 - 7:22 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
    • Gloria Tucci

      Kelly! That was going to be my third runner-up. Could anyone make that up? It isn’t enough to be merely a competent
      physician or dentist. That’s so 20th century. I’ve gone to competent physicians and dentists in countries where they didn’t speak English and I didn’t speak their language. So I looked up the relevant words in a dictionary and went to see the doctor or dentist. They didn’t have to be either culturally or linguistically anything. They just had to know medicine or dentistry. And here I am, decades later, having lived to tell the tale, bodily and dentally intact.

      Amazing post, Mr. Simon. Great idea.

      What if you tried it with the federal government?

      August 11, 2011 - 5:23 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

      

      
29. 29. Bonatti

    All that list needs is a Ministry of Silly Walks and the Circumlocution Office.

    August 11, 2011 - 7:23 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
30. 30. Mr. G

    California Political Reform Division, time to go to work!

    August 11, 2011 - 7:46 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
31. 31. eman

    There will likely not be a smooth transition from our present insane Socialist California to a sane Capitalist California.

    It has gone way too far for that.

    August 11, 2011 - 7:49 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
32. 32. P Stroud

    Breaking up California would not be a good idea because you’d end up with more liberal wacko Senators, two for each new state. A better idea is to combine California, Oregon and Washington into one super-state. Then the loonies would lose 4 wackjob Senators. Combine New England also. Then the liberals would go into a permanent minority in the Senate. Anything to derail the left, which has become clinically insane, is okay in my book.

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33. 33. Jay

    can we get texas to invade, take over the oil wells and fire all the agencies?

    August 11, 2011 - 8:06 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
    • OldGuyBob

      First we’ll have to declare war on Texas to make them invade. They’re too smart to want to accept responsibility for all those Californians voluntarily.

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34. 34. Walt C

    I didn’t read the whole list, but is there a redundant department of redundancy? Just asking.

    August 11, 2011 - 8:14 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
35. 35. D.D.

    Just think — these are only the *state* jobs; this madness continues on the county level. My s-i-l has worked for a CA county for yrs. as a receptionist at a FREE spay/neuter clinic. She will have a huge pension, and indeed can retire early. I applaud her at least having a job, and sticking it out — but jeez, Louise … a big ol’ early (full) pension for working at a place that SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST?!

    August 11, 2011 - 8:29 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
36. 36. Chucko

    California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists

    That right there is the only reason I haven’t left California yet.

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37. 37. glenn

    Bear in mind that a whole bunch of the “Boards and Commissions” listed here used to be staffed by volunteers who served to assist the Legislature in understanding things like Cosmetology or Homeowners Associations so the legislation they wrote was resonable. Now they have become six figure retirement plans for pols who get termed out or voted out. And I’m not kidding about the six figures.

    August 11, 2011 - 8:53 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
38. 38. Californian

    No not every one of those agencies has employees who get a generous pension. On some the members serve without pay and just get a per diem.

    Quite a few of those agencies have a legitimate function. The opinion unit that someone asked about for example is part of the Attorney General’s office. They address issues raised by legislators about legality of prospective legislation. Their opinions are published in the reports of the Attorney General and can be used as precedents in court.
    Many of the commissions are the ones you complain to when you have a problem with for example, your contractor, or someone who has a state license. Some of the agencies are actually self funding or are not on the general state budget.

    August 11, 2011 - 8:56 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
    • Bilbo

      You cannot justify the explosion of government agencies. We don’t need the gov. to licence barbers and nail salons!

      August 11, 2011 - 12:02 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

      

      
39. 39. Dyspeptic Curmudgeon

    Hah! Californicated is barely trying. Someone counted 519.
    Well Ontario proudly boasts that the Government makes appointments to 630 agencies and boards. And that excludes the Ministries. And Ontario does not have a state university system.

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40. 40. William Woody

    Be aware that many of these agencies are enforcement agencies which enforce California laws. And many of them are pro-active, meaning you are required to file paperwork with them prior to starting a business or engaging in certain business operations.

    So you cannot cut the agencies without cutting the respective paperwork requirements; otherwise, you will put an otherwise more substantial drag on our businesses. And of course you can’t cut the paperwork requirements without a chorus of “beware the sins of deregulation!” from the busybodies that got us into this mess in the first place.

    Any sane person believes this is a bug. But I suspect it’s a design feature–designing government so that it can never get smaller, only bigger, by playing on our fears that while we may want to be self-sufficient, we don’t trust our neighbors (especially the ones who run larger companies, or the ones who are poorer and have children) to be self-sufficient.

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41. 41. Kevin M

    “California Workforce Investment Board” WTF is that? Do they buy and sell Blue-collar Futures of something?

    August 11, 2011 - 9:11 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
42. 42. Max

    I read the list and checked it twice, but am unable to locate the Department of Silly Walks. CA should remedy that post haste lest the British beat us to the punch.

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43. 43. Californian

    BTW Roger, the employees who get a pension get it from the earnings of PERS and State Teachers Retirement System. The taxpayers are on the hook for only a small percentage of the pension amount, and rank and file California state employees pay a higher rate into their retirement than the employees of any other state.

    California is broke because of prison costs and social welfare programs.

    August 11, 2011 - 9:39 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
44. 44. Joseph Hertzlinger

    California Acupuncture Board … California Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine …

    Is this part of the “War on Science”?

    California Prevention Services …

    How can we prevent California?

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45. 45. memomachine

    Hmmmm.

    “Lieutenant Governors Commission for One California”

    How many Californias are there? And can we afford them?

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46. 46. aclay1

    Here’s a potential solution. Serving on commissions is generally considered prestigious. Let’s make it voluntary – no pay or pension. Let’s also remove decsion making, enforcement, and regulation drafting authority – they can only make recommendations to the legislature on potential legislation and fund disbursement.

    We’ll see a lot of these die on the vine, and the ones that matter will be staffed by people who really care about the issues.

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47. 47. cowgirl

    California – AKA – the Stupid State, or the Lindsay Lohan State – addicted to Stupid. It will fall apart. Faster please.

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48. 48. johnny

    My business sells to the State of CA. Yesterday, one of the above listed agencies placed an order for $36 worth of engraved signs. In order to complete this order, we needed to fill out and submit: 1) Statement of Recycled Content, 2) Darfur Compliance Statement, 3) Small Business Certification Statement, and 4) a copy of our re sellers certificate. Paperwork took as much time as the order. And then when that paperwork gets to the state, it will need to be filed and tracked….

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    • Eric R.

      For a mere $36, why did you even bother with the order? The cost to you of filling out the forms would be more than California is paying. I know conditions are tough, but that’s still a money loser.

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49. 49. newton

    [Jaw dropping on the floor, flies flying into mouth...]

    By comparison, Texas has all of 186 agencies, in all three branches of state government.

    Is there any wonder why so many businesses and people are moving from California and into Texas?

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50. 50. Bilbo

    The title could also be “Why you can’t get anything done in California”.

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51. 51. PCAT

    do a “Find” on this for WATER

    not counting the fist one that pops for boating and waterways there are 8 thats right 8 agencies that have to do with WATER!!!!!!!!!!

    California Department of Water Resources

    California Regional Water Quality Control Boards

    California State Water Project Analysis Office *

    California State Water Project *

    California State Water Resources Control Board

    California Water Commission *

    California Water Environment Association (COWPEA)

    California Water Resources Control Board

    any liberal who mocks a conserv for wanting govt to be reduced should know we are not talking about vital agencies such as repairing the roads and such. this is the example we mean!!!!!!!!!! Reduce govt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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52. 52. PCAT

    want to see massive duplication of services———

    California Department of Water Resources

    California Regional Water Quality Control Boards

    California State Water Project Analysis Office *

    California State Water Project *

    California State Water Resources Control Board

    California Water Commission *

    California Water Environment Association (COWPEA)

    California Water Resources Control Board

    8 agencies having to do with WATER!!!!!!!! time to reduce govt!!!!!!!!!! liberals who mock us for saying that just look at this list of 8!!!!!!!!! and explain how the poor people in california couldnt get along without most of them. I am not saying have dirty water but I bet they could have clean water without 7 of them or maybe 6 of them going away!!!!!

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53. 53. Paul

    Living in Michigan (just one economic step removed from California), I think we should have a “California Prevention Services”, so we can prevent what happened in California from happening here!

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54. 54. Narniaman

    This topic is crying out for an Iowahawk treatment. . . . .

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55. 55. Stevefraser

    WRONG….It’s the millions of Illegals being serviced by public employee union members…Progressivism’s formula for success.

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56. 56. seriously

    Seriously? hmmm… now what would a sane person do? Cut funding on projects that help people in need or tax people who have their 7th home above sunset blvd… oooo tough one for me.

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57. 57. TedJ

    California Prevention Services – Do they tell other states how to NOT be like California?

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58. 58. bee

    The obvious answer is to create MORE state agencies. That way everybody in California can work for a state agency

    August 11, 2011 - 2:16 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
59. 59. Mohammed Goldberg

    I would call this list “California’s Super Entitlements List” since the taxpayers have to pay for this. Just remember the only thing that government employees create is a burden on the tax payers and nothing else…

    August 11, 2011 - 2:41 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
60. 60. Nate Whilk

    I remember seeing this list before, but I can’t remember where. Googling shows it’s been around at least since mid-2009: http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/409017-marsden/6350-california-the-way-out

    However, I have no idea if that site originated it.

    August 11, 2011 - 3:43 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
61. 61. Harvard@Cal

    To be fair, some of those entities are actually sub-units of other agencies:

    Cal/OSHA is part of Dept. Industrial Relations

    California Departmento de Vehiculos Motorizados, uh that’s DMV

    CalExpo is part of the Dept. Food and Ag.

    A bunch of Dept/offices listed (Toxics/Water Board, OEHHA, Pesticide [which actually contains the Structural Pest Control Board) are part of Cal/EPA.

    Etc.

    So it’s a bit less horrifying than presented, but only a bit…

    August 11, 2011 - 4:51 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

    

    
62. 62. AzA

    Geez, I’m trying make a little poster with which to tweak all the Lefties around here. It took 20 seconds just for the computer to process the cut-and-paste!

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63. 63. Kevin

    Counting California

    Let’s get started: One!

    I wonder what they do for the other 364.99 days of the year?

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64. 64. gbeltran

    And this is only one state, California. Care to show us the federal gov’t?

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66. 66. mojo

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67. 67. Max

    I think that we could use a complet new goverment in all states not only in California. Most of our elected are corrupt and ate doing nothing to stop the rise in taxes and our inflation.If they collected all the money we spent on all the countries in all the wars we faught that we built up after those wars. If they paied back all that money we would be out in the clear. No people out of work no houses being reposesed and more people working.

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    Hmmmmm, I wonder what the rest of this list & the agencies would look like if the direct beneficiaries of these programs had to pay for their agency support the same way CPAs pay for the Board of Accountancy.

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