Tanya photo, 2009Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
We hope you had a very good trip to Germany—a very interesting and vivid land—and of course the neighbor of your birth country.
Now that you have returned, there are some actions which I suggest you should undertake immediately—since the economic disaster is growing more ugly every hour in California and the entire world.
Some of my suggestions will take considerable use of extraordinary powers, but as the situation grows daily worse, perhaps the majority of the public—your constituents--will will support the changes.
You should cap the rate of rent charged by landlords immediately.
The working classes to which most of us belong and now the ex-working classes—most of us without income—and the rest of us living in fear that their next paycheck will be their last—as it probably will be, and that they will be evicted.
I also suggest you cut the monthly rents owed to landlords by half.
Most of us are truly being gauged by the owners of the apartments or houses we rent—few of us are owners—and the rent now charged has grown higher and higher during the economic bubble and now that the bubble has burst the rents have remained high—though the money to PAY the rents has in many cases vanished.
Most of us depend on at least two full incomes to pay rent on basic habitations and other necessities—and these incomes simply do not exist any more.
If you do not take action that is creative and drastic—it is probable that California will experience very difficult times indeed.
I voted for you and am a “member of your team”.
Do not let us down.
Sincerely,
Thomas F. Wold
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