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THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS on Thursday had a 8×8 photo of me under the headline “Its Their Party” followed by an article on the Silicon Vally Tea Party and tax day rally.

My mug on the front page of the Mercury was a surprise.  I hope everyone who is unfamiliar with the Tea Party movement  (TPM) has a chance to read the Mercury article and understand the Tea Party better.   I expressed my practical views as an Independent.

I must thank Silicon Valley Tea Party Patriot Deanna Doyon for her leadership in coordinating with the media coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party Rally.  Without her leadership neither my mug nor my views would have appeared or the coverage of Channel 2 News here.

BLOOMBERG REPORTS the Federal Home Loan Bank Board will eventually have to write off $1 trillion in loses.  And, oh, yes it will have to be bailed out by taxpayers.

It will take time for Americans to realize the nation is insolvent and that trillions in mortgage securities loses will eventually be added to the exploding national debt.

THE QUOTE OF THE DAY “California budget going Mayan in 2012″ from Dr. Housing Bubble.  Oh, Goodie.  But the good Doctor didn’t add the worst part: by 2012 California will have lost another 9% of its base industry jobs.

THAT’S NO ANGRY MOB; THAT’S MY MOM: Team Obama’s Assault On The Tea Party is a new book out by Michael Graham.

The news media, blogs, and social media are now abuzz with Congressional Democrats and the Prez himself saying their scared of death threats, spitting, and racial epithets  from angry violent Tea Party mom protesters.  However, when journalists and bloggers check out these stories… no evidence can be found!  For example the brick allegedly thrown through the office window of a Cincinnati Congressman Rep. Driehaus. Sounded good.  Except his office is on the 30th floor of a high rise office building.  What an arm that mom has.

The evidence coming from police reports is of vandalism damage done to Republican Congressional leaders like Michelle Bachmann, (R-MN), and Eric Cantor (R-VA) with a bullet through is VA office window.

But I agree with Scaredicrats.  There is nothing scarier than a really angry mom.
The complaining Scaricrats like Harry Mitchell (D-AZ) all share something in common I noticed.  They are all Democrat Congressional incumbents 12-18% behind in the polls.  Yeah, they’re scared of losing their jobs!  Generic Republicans are ahead in 100 Scaredicrat Congressional Districts, and in ten Senate races!

So, if you should see a Mom out in an SUV, be wary.  That Mom is probably a wild eyed  racist  clinging to her guns… err maybe her vote!

Run Scaredicrats, run!  I’d be scared too.

HERE IS MY EMAIL LETTER TO JON Whitmore, President of San Jose State University, in reply to his opinion letter published in the San Jose Mercury News Feb. 5th “Holding the line on cuts to California university funding is not enough.”

As I graduated as a President’s Scholar from SJSU so I think my opinion might be of some value to the President regarding the funding of the universities.

Dear President Whitmore:

Saving higher education in California will in fact take a bold new vision in Sacramento.  Your opinion piece is correct in stating that the state is losing many of its best students to out of state institutions.  But that statistic was accurate in 1990 and has since become dramatically more evident.  It is also true the state’s most promising engineers end up in Texas (Austin for instance).

Mayor Chuck Reid, speaking at the National Mayor’s Conference broadcast on CSPAN TV in December last year, said (to paraphrase) the City of San Jose would soon have only one employee,  a fireman on overtime, the balance of San Jose’s revenue will be spent paying public employee benefits.

What astonishes me is California institutional leaders arguing over the ever diminishing shares of the state’s budget pie like Soviet nomenklaturists rather than confronting what is needed to do to EXPAND THE ECONOMY OF THE STATE and taking a smaller slice of a larger state revenue pie.

California statistically is in the later stages of decline and decay.  As the LAO’s 2010-1011 governor’s budget analysis points out, it is politically unlikely the federal government will bailout California over the near or long term.

What I would suggest is that some of the Academic Senate faculty be assigned to conduct research in the archives of the SJSU library.  There researchers will find the bold new vision the state and CSU/UC systems need to reform and rejuvenate state government.

In the books stamped  “San Jose Normal School” on the flyleaf, if they are still there in the book stacks, (I used to read them while taking a break from my OR comparative government studies) is in this collection of San Jose Normal School books a bold vision of how a state education system can operationally create and empower an economic Juggernaut.

I also suggest the CSU/UC system send faculty from the mathematics, economics, and political science departments to Washington and Texas since, as you know these are the states where the most promising engineers and students have migrated, to conduct comparative government efficiency research.

What this comparative research might conclude is the state’s bureaucracy and political leaders, largely educated in the CSU/UC system, need to drop out of their ideology, and tune in to the practical real world of educational and government systems that have proven to work optimally.

As an alumni I would be happy to help if asked.

Sincerely,

Val McMurdie

408.410-41855

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