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The cure to the budget crisis is to privatize all services & cut taxes.
I signed the Recall Petition - but I worry if it's delayed to March, Calif. Unions will get their ilk out to vote in force against Recall -- and they will use as a 'figleaf' to cover this effort, the Union-backed upcoming March ballot proposition to remove the 2/3's requirment for budget passage -- fraudulently called the "Budget Accountability Act." The Unions are between a rock & a hard place with Gray "Gumbee" Davis, since they have spend the last several months protesting him, and getting the base all whipped up against him for attempting to cut the budget. Now, they have a choice to make: silently back the recall, or pull an embarrassing political 180 and back the anti-Recall-effort publicly.

Politically it's hard to push for privatized government services. Public Labor Unions and Teacher Unions dominate Calif. politics. They are well aware that privatization is efficient - but ...they don't care. They only 'care' that they can't milk union dues from the efficient, innovating, entrepreneurial, privatized small businesses which would serve the public sector agencies under privatization - & so they work very ruthlessly & immorally, 24/7, to block privatization reforms and school vouchers with assorted lame, vague speeches and protests crying about social injustice and "risky schemes" etc. -- no matter HOW good private competition will be for the consumers (students & taxpayers). Don't mean to be pessimistic here but sadly this is the truth. Unions take 1% of unionized pay checks, and half of that membership money is used for political (democrat) activities. That is a lot of D.N.C. money, that Dems don't want to lose. As an economist & conservative, I know that this is a bitter political pill to swallow. But it's 'reality.'

Since they (Unions out here in California) obviously don't care about efficiency or competition, perhaps we can use moral arguments and jawboning to convince them to support free trade/private competition - Here: "Unions complain about 'greed' but - THEY'RE the Greedy, protectionist, bastards. They hide behind banners & protest signs with phrases like "Justice!" to cover for the fact that they are labor-market protectionists without a shred of honor & economic decency. They oppose competition among workers (I prefer to call them "small-business people" or entrepreneurs, rather than the socialist term, "Workers"), because they are subconsciously AFRAID of competition. They claim to be protecting employees from "exploitation", but then violently block 'scabs' - workers who WANT to work, and to honorably & peacefully compete with them - from forming voluntary contracts with private & public sector employers.

Sad, sad, sad. Dishonorable & immoral. Unions. What CAN you do with them?? Nothing. Shameful economic bullies.

I signed the Recall Petition - but I worry if it's delayed to March, Calif. Unions will get their ilk out to vote in force against Recall

It looks like it'll happen this Fall. The Secretary of State attempted to slow down the count but that effort collapsed when the recall forces threatened to haul him into court.

This campaign is going to be unlike any we've ever seen. Any bozo with 65 signatures and a few thousand dollars for a filing fee can get on the ballot. And they'll be able to file up until 60 days before the election, which means a very short campaign. Not to mention that half of the electon process is an up/down vote on keeping the incumbent. Nobody has ever run a campaign with such a bunch of oddball factors involved, so there's no playbook for how to carry it off. Watch this carefully, it's going to be one for the history books.