it is probably all true. I live in a small town, I'm told we can't use lead bullets out at the ranch, but other than that, I don't notice that much going on that is out of the ordinary. Don't notice much difference when reps or dems are governor. I go to see my brother ,who lives in the city, about every month... he lives in a really nice house in a nice neighborhood. No homeless there. I work in an 'impacted area' (poor people) and we have homeless and all the problems that come with it.
the reasons for the homeless is so broad, one solution doesn't work, so, that part sucks. expensive gas... yep. taxes... yep. If you are able to make enough dough, you don't feel it compared to how nice it is to live here. Whatever idiocy California comes up with seems to eventually transfer to the rest of the states in time (smoking laws etc, safety laws etc) so, maybe we are just patient zero.
I went over to meet the solar guy at my aunt's in San Martin yesterday. She bought a hybrid car and wants a solar system now. She has some old panels that are all fucked up and it was fun to look at the whole thing and figure it out with the guy. We laughed about all the different rules and changed legislation and requirements... it is like a maze or a puzzle. But, we'll figure it out.
Here is one that will make eyes roll... at our cabin, there are neighborhoods all over the lake with owner's associations. I'm the president of ours (a thankless and retarded job that is the result of some sin committed in some previous life) anyway, we have a road that is paved (rare up there) and it ends with a trail head (two actually) and a local, historic business. We are applying for grant funds to repave the road (and reengineer parts that were not done right in the first place) and the 'winning' concept according to the people helping me 'make it about making it easy for hikers and it will get more tractiion.'
Pave a road to help hikers.
See, that would sound ridiculous, unless you want to fix the road. Then you just go with it and keep on truckin.
I saw a post where someone said they have the news on all day. Fuck that. I watch 30 mins a day and read the news on the internet for about 30 more minutes. Any more than that and it melts your brain (worse than eggs on drugs)
Spend the extra time left by not wasting it on the news making stuff or figuring out simple ways to make more dough so that when gas is 6.00 it is a minor annoyance.