We must be creative and generous to assure that the future members of our society have a balanced and competitive educational experience. The foundation of this is public education, but we must have alternatives avalable. Although Santa Clara County has an enviable record of public safety, and although our crime statistics are going down, there are ways of keeping those statistics on the downward trend. With regard to the recent school violence, we should look to successful programs such as Watsonville's, where teen counsellors have helped to nearly halve the number of incidents.
American medicine is the best in the world.
At that point, people on welfare and even people without insurance stand a better chance of appropriate testing and treatment than many average, hard-working people who happen to have restrictive health insurance. In general, govenment should stay out of the practice of medicine and not interfere with the patient-physician relationship. Mass transit is difficult with our waterways, hills and earthquakes, as well as our personal vehicle psychology. High Occupancy Toll lanes should be evaluated. Decentralizing businesses, staggered shifts, and even wider highways need consideration.