Comments on: Backlog of CA business filings may get relief

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:42:37 +0000

Of course the public union workers wouldn’t intentially screw up the system that would cost union jobs. Would they.
Hondo…..

By: BobA

BobA — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:43:40 +0000

C.J.:

What you are suggesting is that California is more or less ran like a banana republic where corruption is the norm rather than the exception.

I’ve worked in countries where bribery is normal and expected and the only way to get things done. At least those countries are unpretentious about it unlike here where our city & state bureaucracies pretend to be moral and ethical and yet are every bit as corrupt as any 3rd world country (I call them “turd world” countries but that’s another story).

By: C.J.

C.J. — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:01:28 +0000

It is not beyond the realm of possibility that state booby-crats are delaying the processing of paperwork so that they can cherry-pick the good business ideas (and good business names).

We’ve seem time and time again our state civil “servants” soliciting kickbacks from their pals in exchange for preferential treament.

For a fee, they’ll put the good ideas on the backburner while their “friends” submit their own paperwork, which then gets processed ahead of the original ideas.

I’ll bet a dollar…

By: Tom in SoCal

Tom in SoCal — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:30:04 +0000

It isn’t the contractors that are at fault. What I have read and suspected (I am in in the IT business) is that the state has unrealistic expectations of their projects. Also there have been many cases where project creep has taken hold. This increases the costs dramatically and if left unchecked can derail the entire project.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:14:55 +0000

Kalifornia is ground zero for the greatest minds in the computer business. Apple or Google could get a similar system( and just as big a system) up in running in 6 months. Or less. In 5 years, the system the state ordered, will be 5 years too old.
It is beyond belief, that in the state that is the computer capitol of the world, the state can’t get an Atari system up, let alone a modern system.
Hondo….

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:53:42 +0000

“Behind the problem: yet another state computer mess”

Just to remind you that the major problems in the state’s computer systems over the last 20 years were the results of screw-ups by private companies hired as government contractors.

By: Tom in SoCal

Tom in SoCal — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:47:53 +0000

I have noticed over the past two years that it is taking the Secretary of State’s office 3-6 months just to process normal annual paperwork for corporations. Stuff they have had to do for years.

Total incompetence.

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:18:30 +0000

Correction made Mr. Galt – thanks for catching this.
Katy

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:21:07 +0000

Let me tell you what really is going on here. The Buildings that they are working out of do not have enough outlets for computers. Yes this is the truth. All the work is being done by hand with 3 by 5 cards. This is why they are going to have to hire more people and overtime. If they were smart which they are not. They would take that money and invest in outlets for computers and come into the 21st century,

By: John Galt

John Galt — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:58:43 +0000

When Kabateck said “…there are 22,000 small businesses in California, and more than 300,000 small businesses across the country….” he probably meant member companies in his NFIB. Aren’t there about two million small businesses in California, and, approximately 15.0 million businesses nationwide?