South Bay Church is a biblical, mission-focused church in San Jose. It’s 5 years old, and they recently started another campus in Sunnyvale. Congregation is very strong in your son’s age demographic, though all ages attend.
If green jobs are such a boon, they will emerge through private initiative and private capital. Industrious entrepreneurs will respond to the need if only the boot of the federal behemoth would simply be lifted from their backs. We don’t need more federal engineering of the economy.
Californians do indeed vote on the budget, indirectly, each time we elect our state representatives. Though it is dysfunctional, we have the budget we want by virtue of the representatives we elect.