1. What do we cut in order to pay the estimated $800 million a year in debt service?
2. Can California really afford a debt service/general fund ratio of 10%?
3. Why not spend the approximate $8 billion in unspent Prop.E and Prop 84 water bond $$ before incurring more debt?
4. I, for one, don't want Arnold appointing the 9 people who will decide which storage project(s) get the $3 billion.
5. Likewise, I don't want private entities getting their noses under the tent ¶79749(b).
6. The $2 billion is pork might be OK if and when the economy recovers; but not now.
Sep 05, 2010 Districts Not To Blame These districts took a risk and gave up millions of dollars worth of water entitlements to try to make the project work where the state had failed.... more
Sep 04, 2010 State Should Help Clean Up Sacramento
the costs of fixing this (which were said to be $10 a month on a typical bill just a few weeks ago) may be small in relation to the benefits
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