California’s Band-Aid Governor Gavin Newsom was Mayor of San Francisco when that once great, beautiful, destination city first started having a homeless problem. He promised the residents that he would solve that problem within ten years. The homeless problem was also exasperated by a rising illegal drug usage problem on the streets. Newsom’s response on solving the problem was not in looking at expanding housing to deal with the lack of housing or to put drug addicts into involuntary treatment for addiction as was allowed by section 11550 Health and Safety Code. His response was the Band-Aid approach which was to treat those afflicted with compassion and empathy; giving out tents for the people to sleep in while on the sidewalks of the city and to set up “safe” injection sites and issue “clean” needles to drug addicts. Now, some twenty years later, the problem has not been solved as there is a rising homeless problem and in the year 2023 nearly 700 persons died on the streets of San Francisco due to drug overdose. As Governor he has presided over an education system that produces students with less educational skills in the history of the state. Sex education is mandated even in elementary school with graphic pictures of sexual positions, both heterosexual and homosexual, and gender transitioning is supported to the extent that school authorities are forbidden to notify the parents of a child’s decision for sexual gender transition, by law that he signed. Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta are constantly posturing about needing stronger gun control, even though California has one of the most stringent gun ownership legislations in the nation. But while they both rail on about getting guns out of the hands of residents, the conveniently do not acknowledge that by law the courts can order the CA Department of Justice (while Bonta heads) to confiscate guns from persons the courts have deemed a public danger and ordered their firearms confiscated. The Calf DOJ is currently backlogged approximately 23,000 firearms ordered to be confiscated by the courts and this has been the case for nearly a decade. In other words, the office headed by AG Bonta has failed to confiscate those 23,000 firearms ordered confiscated by the courts from people the courts have ruled to be a public danger. AG Bonta has said that he will start coordinating with local law enforcement to assist in these confiscating of firearms, but talking is not doing. Calif voters over ten years ago approved a nearly 10-billion-dollar bond issue to build water storage facilities, but the Calif State Water Board, which are appointees of the governor have failed to even approve moving one shovel of dirt to begin construction of a reservoir site that has been identified for over 20 years. In October of 2022 Gov Newsom announced a budget surplus of 90-100 billion dollars and sent out tax refunds to not just taxpayers but to every resident of the state with the lowest income person getting the most “tax refund” even though many had not paid any state income tax. In March 2023, Gov Newsom announced the state now had a 25-billion-dollar budget deficit that was revised a couple months later as now being a 32-billion-dollar budget deficit, and in November 2023 announced a budget deficit of 68 billion dollars. Gov Newsom then announced plans for a bond issue to fund the construction of 10,000 beds for mental patients, saying the operating funds would come from other sources. Really, what other sources when the state has already announced a budget debt of 68 billion dollars and has bonded and other debt of approximately half trillion dollars. These do not even include the Los Angeles to San Francisco high speed rail system for which the funding is well insufficient, and unlikely to be completed within this century. Now Gov Newsom announces that the state will cover medical care and costs for illegal immigrants, never mind the 68-billion-dollar budget deficit which continues to grow every couple of months. Again, talking, posturing, not doing. Putting verbal band aids in place.