On FWY 105 westbound around 9AM today, I saw a brand new State SUV Tahoe Hybrid probably costs about $50,000 or more with a single driver. How could one justify any state employee or legislator spending $50,000 of taxpayers' money on an SUV when the taxpayers are trying to make ends meet?

May I suggest a hiring freeze in all departments till our economic crisis improves? Furlough, layoff & hiring in the same department does not make any sense. This will never happen in a private entity BUT it's happening in state agencies including my department.

In tough economic time, raising sale taxes will have the exact adverse & opposite effects of increasing revenue. April's sale figure taught us a lesson, the 1% sale tax increase actually create more than 30% DECREASE in tax revenue, people are getting hurt! Furlough or layout should be selective & it's not prudent to extend furlough to "Special Fund" agencies which has nothing to do with General Fund's budget. By slowing down the "special Fund agencies, it will instead slow down permit process requests from the private sectors, thereby slowing the FEE's revenue & slowing down the construction that we desperately need to stimulate the economy. So it's a lose-lose situation to impose furlough on "Special Fund's agencies" For the good of California, please re-consider your approaches before going deeper into a sink hole.