Let’s Save California Now!

Victor Davis Hansen has suggested some laws that need to be passed now to save California.

1. The Hetch Hetchy Smelt and Salmon Act - Aim: To synchronize water resources with water-use advocacy.

2. The Undocumented Immigrant Equity Act - Aim: One, to achieve economic parity for undocumented immigrants by allowing them affordable housing in affluent areas where jobs are plentiful, wages are high, and opportunities exist for mentorships; and, two, to ensure cultural diversity among the non-diverse host community, bringing it into compliance with the state’s ethnic profile.

3. The Cultivating Diversity Education Equilibrium Act - Aim: To end disparities in California school testing and performance levels accruing largely due to intrinsic racial and ethnic discrimination.

4. The Silicon Valley Transparency and Fair Jobs Act - Aim: To ensure progressive Silicon Valley commercial businesses are caring progressive state citizens.

5. The California Firearms Safety Act - Aim: To prevent unnecessary armed deterrence by private security units in the hire of the affluent.

6. The Fair Housing Adjustment Act - Aim: It would ensure state resources are equally distributed and not inordinately siphoned off to a small minority of the state population. Would encourage existing large homes to downsize through reverse remodeling.

7. The High-speed Rail Equality Act - Aim: To ensure commuters in Los Angeles and San Francisco will have priority in construction, avoiding privileging Fresno-to-Corcoran commuters, where construction of the first link of the high-speed rail line is slated to begin.

8. The Climate Change Adjustment and Fair Temperature Act - Aim: To ensure every Californian the right to live in a house with temperatures at 75 degrees.

9. The One-percenter Politician Act - Aim: To ensure that California’s representatives reflect the rich economic diversity and income averages of the state. It also prohibits inside influence peddling on the part of politicians.

10. The Protect the Peregrine Act - Aim: To stop the wind and solar industry from harming natural ecosystem of California.

11. The Petroleum Fair Use Act - Aim: To ensure that Californians only consume the gasoline they produce and thereby do not promote a larger carbon footprint by subsidizing out-of-state oil production not overseen by California resource legislation.

12. The California Fair Automobile Act - Aim: To ensure so-called imported high-performance and luxury cars do not use an inordinate amount of state energy resources, or leave large carbon footprints on the California ecological landscape, or divert collective resources to the individual from the greater needs of the state.

Read the whole article, it gives more details about the suggested laws and the reasoning behind them.