Some recent CitizensJournal.us reader comments

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Lawrence Stein	The crime numbers seem to be equally proportioned to the population. There is an adage, clinic figures don’t lie, remedy but lairds figure. During the presentation, the police cheif made a statment how the police department has not had an increase in personell. I beleive an additional 10 to 20 positions were added using Measure O. If the city has had 2,700 domestic violance cals for service, what has the police department done through its special unit, to help mediate these issues. Police officers are not usually trained to help resolve domestic violance issues, but people who have master degrees in Social Work (MSW) probable are.	Oxnard crime situation 1View Post
Lawrence Stein	One of the issues not being raisied is if there is a 25% usage reduction, then revenue will drop by at least 25%. Fixed costs, including debt service will remain the same. Expect water rates to increase. I have stated several times, the biggest potential customer of GREAT Water is MWD and its agencies.	Metropolitan Water District poised to put the squeeze on County agencies 1View Post
Jeff	The city doesn’t get it. There are MWD cuts coming. Having “diverse” helps but cuts are still in our future. So, Mr. Fox, where is the source of the water for the convention center hotel and the bowling alley/ice rink? Traffic and Water – no answers from the council, Feng or Fox.	Camarillo Water Supply Questions Will be answered at April 8 City Council Meeting 1View Post
Jeff McVicker	Petropulos is responsible for the city’s website. He can’t seem to get that fixed, so I don’t think giving him more responsibility is the right move. Feng is the guy that cost us $800k in the Kueny settlement. He just gave away the courthouse to VCTC for one dollar after the city paid $1.4 million for it from the county. He called it a win-win for the city and VCTC. More like a win-win for the County and the VCTC. Camarillo made a fool of itself again. And isn’t it amazing the VCTC has $3 million for building a new building for it’s 15 staff members but hasn’t found any money over the last 10 years for the Rice/5th rail over crossing. They’ll fit in perfectly in Camarillo with Feng and the current council. Feng needs to replaced.	Camarillo: Appointment of Community Development Director 2View Post
Ralph	She might have overlooked this one, but environmental wackos have prevented private reservoirs as well as squandering the $8 bil generated by a state bond measure represented to “fix” our water issues. Further the E.W. have wrongly pressured the state to favor the existence of a non native fish over the interests of humans.	Carly Fiorina blames liberal environmentalists for California water crisis 2View Post
Jeff McVicker	Carla doesn’t let facts in the way of her talking points. MWD’s large diamond valley lake east side project was completed 15 years ago and took three years to fill to capacity in 2002 about doubling So.Cal’s storage capacity by 800,000 acre feet. Not exactly ancient history like Carla would want one to believe.	Carly Fiorina blames liberal environmentalists for California water crisis 2View Post
Ray	I find this move very interesting. Mr. Feng management style has cost the city approximately $800,000+ in 2014. this was the reported cost for settling the Yolanda Kueny lawsuit in 2014. Kueny was the asst human resources person and now her position is being deleted. In addition, the city manager’s office has received a second lawsuit from a former employee(the lawsuit is similar to Kueny’s) which will likely cost additional tax dollars this coming year. A third employee is considering yet another lawsuit. With the council recently awarding Feng a annual salary of $300,000, I’m wondering why they would have much confidence in approving this re-organization??? However, I’m sure the city council will likely approve this plan unanimously.	Camarillo: Appointment of Community Development Director 2View Post
Citizen Reporter	Looks like some major democrat opposition, too: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Chuck-Schumer-Iran-nuclear-deal-Congress/2015/04/06/id/636809/	Major pushback on Iran nuclear deal 1View Post
Phil Erwin	Mr. Coupal reasonably argues that it is unfair to ask those among us with limited means to shoulder the financial burden of “fighting” the “scourge” known (this decade) as “Climate Change.” But regulating the price of gasoline up via a “carbon tax” does precisely that. Millionaires couldn’t care less what a gallon costs; but EVERYONE on a fixed income, or below the poverty level, or running a small business on razor-thin margins certainly DOES care. The state’s insistence on levying this social cost on the “least” among us is as regressive as a tax can get, and flies in the face of the Liberal mantra to “Tax the rich!!” in order to promote “fairness.” But Mr. Coupal labors under the general misunderstanding, so forcefully promoted by the Liberal Left, of what “Climate” really is. To borrow from his own verbiage: When it comes to the topic of climate change, there is really only one thing we know for certain — Which is, that Climate ALWAYS changes. Always has, always will. That is true for an abundance of reasons, which is what makes it so difficult to control — And so easy to misconstrue. As someone who studied Climatology in college (I hold a degree in Environmental Science) I recognize just how much is NOT known about how Climate works. And the reality is, NO ONE actually knows whether there’s a serious global threat from the effects of man-caused carbon emissions. There may be; or it may amount to little more than a tempest in a century-wide teapot. “The Science,” contrary to what you hear trumpeted constantly by the Left, is absolutely NOT “settled.” Frankly, I’m not sure the surface has even been scratched. But here are a few points of relevance to ponder, in consideration of Mr. Coupal’s expressed opinions: 1) IF there is a global impact to climate caused by man’s carbon emissions, then the only rational way to correct or control it is, indeed, with a global strategy — which I believe is what Mr. Coupal meant to say. 2) That does NOT mean that ONLY global-level changes will matter; what it means is that ONE STATE CANNOT CHANGE THINGS BY ITSELF — not even a state as economically “big” as California. Even all 50 of the United States cannot collectively reverse the damage that may be done by either China or India. It’s a question of population, and they got more than we do. 3) Therefore, there is NO GLOBAL VALUE to be gained by deliberately forcing the “working families and small businesses” of California to pay more for their gasoline. THE ONLY EFFECT A CARBON TAX IN CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE IS TO REDUCE CALIFORNIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH. It will have no discernable effect on climate. So Mr. Coupal may be speaking from a pretty sparse understanding of climate — as is virtually everyone you hear or read discussing it in the news. But he’s correct in his basic assertion, which is that California’s insistence on taxing carbon is an unfair and unwise approach to fixing a problem that may or may not exist, but is certainly not appropriately or effectively addressed by taxing gasoline.