California Budget Deal May be Near: CEQA Changes Demanded by Republican Senators May Be in the Offing

Any budget deal that involves giving into the GOP's CEQA demands, in whole or in part, is not worth taking, and should be vigorously opposed. All it will accomplish is emboldening the Republicans to demand even more next summer and cause a much worse budget fight.

Reply tgo Robert in Monterey,

If you budget then you will have to give Republicans what they want and CEQA is one of those thing

It's obvious none of you idiots on the left have ever been to China. Right at this moment, it is where I am. This is the biggest cesspool on the face of the earth. Walk in to any public toilet and they stink to high heaven. In tourist areas they are typically a huge out house that rots in the sweltering heat. The air is the worst of any city in the U.S., Beijing is talking about shutting down ALL private motor vehicle traffic during the Olympics just so the athletes will be able to perform, and even currently don't let everyone drive every day. They have little to no environmental laws and the ones that are are not even enforced. Yet you want to make Republican's in the U.S., not just California, as the worst environmentally friendly people in the world.
You ALL disgust me to no end.

I do not blieve AB 32 is a good enough reason to halt the State Budget. Although it may be a good bill for our future in dealing with the green house effect,I don't believe it has been thought out poperly and should be debated seperately. Especially with our ecconomic problems with housing, gasoline prices, food, homeless and Ag.
Democrates and Republicans can you please make law later and FOCUS ON THE BUDGET NOW

Reply to Ken,

Request denied.

(i am not associated with anyone, connected with anyone etc, i am not speaking on anyone behalf but my own)

Note to Nobody: You have just made a great point for our keeping our environmental laws intact and enforceable!

Ken: Exactly!!

Now I will keep praying that they see the light and pass a budget so that I can get paid after these 51 days!

Reply to State Contractor,

You will get paid if and when Democrats give Republicans exactly what they want and not a second sooner. If you got problem with that then you can go to court and try to get to order the state to pay you. Good luck with that, i believe 3 different lawsuit been filed and not one seem to have gotten the result they wanted.

Is it just me or does Dmitriy sound like the disgruntled boyfriend/florist on Six Feet Under?

The whole country should be in empathy with the unpaid and unfunded in CA until this budget passes. You are in my prayers.

I'm a state contractor too and it hurts to not be paid for so long, but I'm going to assess finance charges like you've never seen. They'll need that 700 million to cover the .25% we're allowed to charge each date our invoice isn't paid.

Note to state contractor:
the idiot left strikes again! If you actually think that the republicans want to do to California and the U.S. what China "CONTINUES" to do to their country, and refuses to stop doing, you're stupider than I actually thought. Wy don't you come here and try to shove the laws we currently have on the books down these peoples throats? I'll tell you why, because they'd lock you up and throw away the key, if not put you to death! Why don't you idiots speak about that instead? Schools can't be built in the U.S. to educate because the freaks on the left are more concerned with a fish that has migrated to an area it never lived before and could actually be moved to live somewhere else. What a bunch of morons!

Hey "nobody", remember back to last year when your leaders were still telling you it was all a hoax? Well, now that you're all radicalized over in China, you may go one step further and check your facts. Even by 2025, with increased emissions from China and India, the U.S. will
have been responsible for twice as much cumulative emissions from 1980 as China and India combined. Not that it will matter much who was responsible.

(Data for 1980-2025 from U.S. EIA (see Endnote 1). Pre-1980 data from Oak Ridge National Laboratories as
displayed by U.S. EPA. http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/EmissionsInternational.html )

By the way, what were you expecting over there? Orange County?

"Nobody," your worldview seems to make you miserable and extraordinarily angry toward others. Maybe you should think about revising it.

Its important that we not use CEQA to add significant cost to projects like a simple freeway widening or important safety projects. Our environmental laws very robust those who would use it as a mechanism to stop regular growth will cause Californians unecessary cost and disruption.

If you don't believe actually read what CEQA is:

http://ceres.ca.gov/ceqa/guidelines/

P.S.

No Matter How well CEQA is implemented can only have a limited effect on reducing emmisions. If you want to do that your going to have to move away from carbon based energy sources.

Ross, your response makes it seem as if we should “all just get along”, something the left refuses to do but tells its sheep it does. Well people like you guys on the left that have vilified anyone who disagrees with you. You don't want to talk and you don't want to get along. As usual, folks like you cannot deal with what I said, which is true, instead you prefer to make it look like there is something wrong with me. I would suggest you take a long look at all the posts for the past weeks and see how “ANGRY” the left is and the names they have been calling others, that is if you care to see the truth, which you don’t. Unfortunately for you I am very happy and could not care less what others think about me.

As for state contractor. You still do not get the point, refuse to deal with the facts I stated and still prefer to blame the U.S. for all the worlds’ woes. China has told those who want it to clean up its act to go F*&% themselves. (That is the second time I said that) The most recent report says China has already surpassed the U.S. in certain emissions. According to China though, they are a ‘developing nation’ and have every right to spew crap into the atmosphere and there is not anything you or anyone else can do about it. If the U.S is so terrible, how is it you choose to live there? Why not move to India or China, where according to you the air and pollution in general is much better. In addition, of course China deals with it much better than we do. Radicalization anywhere in the U.S, and the world for that mater, has come from the communist left. I have no issues with the air and my general day-to-day health in the U.S., but come here for 3 weeks and cannot wait to get out? You choose to ignore every other country polluting the earth and prefer to blame their pollution on republicans.

Lets not forget the plague that force the mighty
mouse Egyptians to surrender to GOD.

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