Letter I wrote to the Bay Area Reagonal Transit
I noticed you cut the parking price to $1. Why not just have free parking? It would eliminate the hassles of your bizzare parking payment system and eliminate enforcement costs. The benifit in increased ridership and public relations would more than offset the revenue.
If you keep making Bart more expensive - people like me will just drive because it's cheaper. I suggest you increase riders rather than fees.
My 2 cents ....
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke state law last year when he used a loophole to loan his campaign committee $4 million, a move that prevented voters from knowing before Election Day who would end up paying the governor's campaign bills, a judge ruled late Monday.
Schwarzenegger will probably face no fines as a result of the ruling, but he will be blocked from paying himself back with the more than $3.4 million he has raised since his election and will have to convert the loans into a personal contribution to his campaign.
The millionaire former movie star contributed an additional $4.85 million in cash to his campaign before the Oct. 7 recall election.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Loren E. McMaster said Schwarzenegger's use of a loophole to avoid a $100,000 cap that voters imposed in 2000 on candidate loans ``flies in the face of the express purpose of the law.'' He said Schwarzenegger's approach would allow rich candidates to ``evade both the $100,000 loan limitation and the requirement of pre-election disclosure of contributions, while those limitations would apply to candidates of more modest means.''
Letter to the Editor
Just 3 years ago the Congressional Budget Office was projecting 10 years of surpluses. Under Clinton we dreamed about paying off the national debt by the end of the decade. Now they are projecting 10 years of deficits with this year's deficity setting another record - one half trillion dollars on the red. Cheney says that deficits don't matter. Having gone from the biggest surplus in the history of the world to the biggest deficit in the history of the world in just 3 years make me wonder what Bush is even running again. I'm scared to think what America will be like with 4 more years of Bush.
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It does make you wonder - with America falling apart and governments on the verge of collapse - what will America be like with 4 more years of Bush. Will he succeed in totally destroying this country? Will he start World War 3? Will the deficit rise to 2 trillion dollars a year? The idea is too scary to think about. Maybe I need to plan to move out of the country but in this day and age there's no place that's safe anymore.