[calcowgirl]

CA has the worst roads in the nation. The MUST be fixed and this is the only way to do it.

No, it's not the only way to do it--that's why the majority of Republican legislators voted against these bonds.
Remember the Republican plan--Pay as You Go? Instead we have the Perata (D) plan.

Besides, it has been demonstrated that very little of the bond money would go for actual roads. Pork, Pork, Pork.

[goldstategop]

Republicans are an irrelevant dynamic in Sacramento. There's a Democrat in the Governor's chair and Democrats in the State Legislature. But to his defenders on FR, he can do no wrong because he's a Republican.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[FairOpinion]

"Pay as you go" will get you 10 feet of roads fixed every year, how long do you think it will take the fix the roads, not to mention that they continue to deteriorate.

We reached a crisis on the roads.

As I said, the only way to fix them is by borrowing the money and fixing them NOW.

Borrowing is never the problem, the problem is what you do with that money -- investing in infrastructure gets you something for the money, throwing it away on "education" is money down the drain.