We emphatically OPPOSE SB 250 (it is draconian, a colossal waste of money and will mean the end of pets and pet shows in California)!
Thank you, Senator Lou Correa, for voting AGAINST it.

How can we afford to waste $250 MILLION (projected cost) on SB 250 when we cant even invest in health care for our people (SB 810)????  Has the CA Senate lost its collective mind (oxymoron, we know)?!?!?

For the amount of (our) money Congress* has essentially given away,
we could OWN the banks, insurance corporations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, General Motors and Chrysler, maybe even the oil corporations, then changed all the executive compensation packages to eliminate their "golden parachutes" and fired the beyond-rich fatcat <censored>s who got us into this situation DEPRESSION in the first place.
(Of course, since they own our government anyway, this will never happen.)
(* Along with President "Change You Can Believe In" Obama.  Actually, come to think of it, this really is change we can believe in.
Any real change would be unbelievable anyway, wouldn't it?  How Orwellian is that?)

REAL SOLUTION:
LET THE CORPORATIONS FAIL!
That's what would happen in a true free market economy, not a corporate welfare state like the U.S.
Real Solution, Part II: Restore the personal and corporate income taxes to 1960 levels.
Real Solution, Part III: Restore all the post-1929 regulations that were designed exactly to prevent this from happening
(but which have been systematically dismantled, bit by bit since 1981 - think Reagan-Bush-Clinton/Gingrich-Bush2...).

BIG PHARMA'S SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (DEPRESSION):
1: Cut back on free samples to doctors (and Hospitals?)*
2: RAISE ALL PRESCRIPTION PRICES**
3: ADVERTISE, ADVERTISE, ADVERTISE!
THAT OUGHT TO HELP THE ECONOMY NO END, RIGHT???
Do you ever wonder what happened to the days when prescription medications could not be advertised at all, and pharmaceutical manufacturers could pour all that money into research instead?
Are you even old enough to remember this?
(* Free samples - tons of them - is how Johnson & Johnson convinced doctors and hospitals to use Tylenol instead of aspirin.  The dangers of using aspirin weren't discovered until years later, and the dangers of liver failure from Tylenol are still kept hush-hush.)
(** Didn't notice yet?  You will.  Some went up small amount, while others went up as much as 60%.)

INSURANCE SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (DEPRESSION):
RAISE PREMIUMS!
Who cares that insurance used to be carefully structured and monitored but legalized gambling?  Now, it's just profit taking, and when you can't take a profit from the subscribers and unregulated gambling (derivatives), take it from the GOVERNMENT / PEOPLE / GRANDKIDS / EVERYONE ELSE!
(Welfare is ok, as long as it's corporate, not for the poor who actually need it.)

BANKERS' SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (DEPRESSION):
1: Flagrantly waste resources on worthless bloated Credit Default Swaps (derivatives)*
2: Buy every politician available (i.e., the ones they didn't already own)
3: Convince (bribe) Congress to bail them out
4: Dish out lavish bonuses (despite being over $1 TRILLION in debt)
5: Party, party, party on expensive new yachts and planes
6: Keep the loan market closed until NO ONE ELSE has any money at all.
(* To the tune of more than $500 TRILLION!)

Patrick Henry Democratic Club
Proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution:

a) The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, as provided for under the First Amendment to this Constitution, is hereby limited to individual human beings.

b) No corporation or foreign government shall enjoy the rights of individual human beings.

c) Means of exchange, including, but not limited to, money, currency, cash, etc., shall not be construed as a form of protected speech under the First Amendment to this Constitution or any other laws.

Passed unanimously on March 10, 2009