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Sweethearts Dance, You Pay
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
9.30.2003
SACRAMENTO, CA - While the recall campaign grabs media coverage, state officials and union bosses are escalating the war on privatization. Their efforts could undermine this important mechanism for helping to restore California's fiscal health.
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Natural Born Killers
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
9.19.2003
SACRAMENTO, CA - "Things are much worse than we expected. Things are much worse than you know. . . There is a strong conviction that government is no longer working . . . The picture is of a government frozen, without the vision or will to formulate policies or carry out long- range plans for the benefit of all people . . . You're not going to have enough money even to argue about it, unless you get jobs to pay taxes. There is an exploding shortfall. California will run out of money in a dramatic way, right around the corner."
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Folie de Petrol
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
9.10.2003
The price of gasoline spiked sharply over the Labor Day weekend and prices remain high. Cruz Bustamante, the Lieutenant Governor who aspires to be Governor, wants to slap government price controls on gasoline. An intriguing response to this notion came in “Bustamante’s Folly: Gas Price Controls Would Bring Back Lines,” an August 30 editorial in the liberal Sacramento Bee.
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Davis Budget Undercuts Education Standards
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.3.2003
When the California Department of Education recently released the results of the 2003 state tests, Gov. Davis quickly slapped his own back. With scores generally up, Davis boasted that his administration’s investment in public education was paying off. Yet, the budget deal that Davis just signed contains bad decisions that threaten the baby-steps of achievement progress made by California students.
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Immigration And The State Budget Deficit
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.3.2003
Hot on the heels of the controversial new law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain drivers licenses, California lawmakers have sent two more bills to Governor Davis that aim to increase government benefits for illegals. Yet as politicians in Sacramento open up the goodie chest for lawbreakers, new data show that a large part of California's budget deficit can be attributed to the negative fiscal impact of immigration.
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Options for the Future
ePolicy
9.3.2003
At a recent speech before the National Press Club, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman, William Donaldson, was asked if he agreed with his boss President Bush that employee stock options are not an accounting expense. Donaldson said no, and this answer revealed a surprising disagreement within the Bush administration, one that doesn't bode well for the business community, particularly in Silicon Valley.
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Motherhood Studies
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.1.2003
Signs of old-style feminism’s demise continue to abound. Consider “Housewife Confidential,” by Caitlin Flanagan, in the September Atlantic Monthly. This is an article that no prestigious journal would likely have published any time from 1965 to 1990 because it celebrates motherhood, praises Erma Bombeck, and demolishes feminist mythology in great style.
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