TRASHING JUSTICE

California Courts are going to have to lay off hundreds of clerks and commissioners. (Commissioners are not judges, but they act as judges for the simpler cases.)

Attorneys will still get their clients' cases heard. But the people who cannot afford to hire an attorney will have trouble getting the attention of the overwhelmed judges. Listening to, and helping, the people who try to represent themselves takes time, The judges will be having trouble just getting through the huge number of cases they have been assigned. If a person has trouble speaking in public, they may be unable to get any sort of justice from our courts.

For years, people have worked to make justice more available to everyone. The programs developed to help people get divorced, take care of a sick persons, and other necessary legal work, are going to be gone, because there is no funding for them.

For thirty five years, I have been quietly working, in my own way, to help the courts provide justice for everyone. Now I am seeing the work that I, and countless others, have done is just being thrown away on the grounds of "we will never agree to raise taxes".

WE HAVE ONLY OURSELVES TO BLAME. If the Democrats do not instantly give us what we want, we do not bother to vote. If you are working to save the trees, but the forest you love gets cut down, you say, "Well, I just won't vote for anyone then."

Now we are all seeing our lifes' work get ruined.

If you were working to improve education, all of your work to do things like lower class size is now trashed.

If you were working to improve the support system for the sick and elderly, most of your work is being trashed.

If you are working to research space, inner space, or any science, your work is in danger of being trashed.

If you were working on improving our infrastructure, your funding is going away.

If you were working on improving the economy, your work is being trashed big time.

ALL OF THIS BECAUSE, if you did not get exactly what you wanted, YOU DID NOT VOTE.

Can you fix this? Yes, call your Congressperson and tell them you do not want to use raising the debt ceiling as an excuse to trash all of the social progress we have made over the last thirty five years. Then give at least $25 to the Democrats. Let the Republicans know that if they again endanger the world wide economy, they will be history, like the Wigs.