Jefferson Vote

This weekend the local county board of supervisors will have an open public meeting to discuss joining Jefferson state movement. This is separate from the Silicon Valley 6-states plan. Jefferson encouraged that other plan. Southerners think that the North is a waste of time and taxes. The North has most of the state's water. The South doesn't know that, because ignorance is their raison d'etre.

I will be at the county during this meeting, shelving books. It made me think what sort of things I'd like to see the new state allow. 

1. Fix the levees.
2. Dredge the sediment out of the reservoirs.
3. Resolve the pike in Lake Davis, finally.
4. Agree to fund jobs programs at the community colleges, and agree which jobs are worth funding and which aren't. (ie machining not medical billing)
5. Authorize new category of vehicles, Experimental. Discard safety regulations requirements during testing phase. Require vehicle painted in Orange and operator to wear a helmet.
6. Reduce safety standards and allow access exemptions so buildings can be used without needing to build wheelchair ramps everywhere.
7. Upgrade hospital emergency rooms in every county so emergencies don't require life flights.
8. Construct small refineries or local fuel storage in every town over a certain size.
9. Local power plants and grids.
10. Basic self defense rights to carry a weapon everywhere.
11. Shoot human predators.
12. Campground managers.
13. State currency based on gold or rice.
14. Accept Eurostandard diesel engines.
15. Scooter reciprocity, 49cc exemption expanded to 125cc with over the counter exam and retest in 60 days for full scooter license. Offer motorcycle rider training in every county fairgrounds, cheap.
16. And I'm against this but its inevitable: legalize pot.
17. Ban safety labels. The gene pool needs chlorine and a few generations without safety will fix our Idiocracy tendencies.

I think these ideas would fix most of what is wrong with California. We can't fix the drought, unless you're completely insane, but restoring the reservoirs will make up the difference in water supply so that's the only sane solution to drought, a common and frequent problem in this state since the Ice Age ended. But at least we don't get hurricanes like the East Coast.