Blowing In The Wind

Where Oh Where Has the Money Gone?

In 1963, Bob Dylan sang “The Answer My Friend is Blowing in the Wind,” and today in Sacramento, that wind is carrying away billions of taxpayer dollars while our representatives simply turn their heads and pretend they do not see.

While Governor Newsom’s pet legislature ignores or stalls bills that could actually make life affordable—such as a rejected proposal to make home insurance tax deductible and reducing the gas tax.

Which both of our elected democrat representatives refused to support.

“How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”

The scale of this disappearing taxpayer money is truly breathtaking, with over $25 billion spent on the homeless population and absolutely no accounting to show for it.

As these massive sums vanish into the bank accounts of unaccountable non-profit organizations, the number of people suffering on our streets only continues to rise.

The mystery deepens when examining the mental health crisis; despite spending reaching an all-time high, mental health issues are actually increasing, leaving the public feeling scammed by organizations whose methods seem to make the problem worse.

“The Answer My Friend is Blowing in the Wind”.

Negligence reaches even further into the state’s coffers as state leaders have overseen a disastrous $20 billion loss in COVID unemployment funds that were borrowed and then sent to incarcerated individuals.

Even as Medi-Cal fraud reaches into the hundreds of millions, elected officials appear to do nothing about the crime, allowing fraudulent schemes to rip off the system while the money blows away.

“How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see”?

It is time to pull back the curtain on the one-party, tax-and-spend culture in Sacramento, where the only solution offered for failed policies is to throw even more money at them.

While incumbents are quick to blame the federal government for these woes, the facts suggest that the root causes of these problems were created right in the halls of the state legislature.

The public deserves to know why these programs are failing and why our leaders refuse to hold anyone responsible for the rampant waste and fraud occurring on their watch.

The answer that is blowing in the wind is to vote for change and common sense and throw the bums out of office that continue to make California unaffordable.

Mike Greer is a candidate for Calif. State Assembly.