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The SEIU-United Healthcare Workers push for a billionaires tax on the premise that the rich don’t pay their fair share and is the cause of California’s budget problems flies in the face of reality: Gavin Newsome’s recently proposed budget includes $539 billion in spending, up 68% in just seven years and remember that the Top 1% of earners in California already pay about half of the state’s income tax. As we’ve said many times: “Government doesn’t have an income problem, it has a spending problem.”

According to Dwight D. Eisenhower: “When you are in any contest you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it.”

Trainer Tom Hopkins believes that “Your past has determined where you are at this moment.” “What you do today will determine where you are tomorrow.”

Remember the uproar over election fraud and interference during the Biden Administration? This resulted in legislation, proposed by the Democrats, for federal oversight that was defeated at the hands of Republicans aided by the defection of two Senate Democrats. We’re puzzled as to why the Trump White House now thinks it’s a good idea. It’s not. Oversight of elections, just like with education, needs to stay local. Yes, there needs to be guidelines to restrict fraud and ensure that everyone legally entitled to vote can, but Nationalized Elections? No.

Coach Tom Landry believed that “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”

Machiavelli said: “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” In other words: Stasis, while ultimately dangerous, is easy. Change is Hard.

Tennis champion Novak Djokovic says that “All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It’s the decision not to try.”