An open letter to legislators and governor: I feel that you are failures. Anything we pay you is too much because you have let your constituents down when we needed you most. I know most other Californians also believe this. So you elected people in Sacramento, get out of there and get a real job or retire. Just stop acting like you’re doing something. You’re making yourselves irrelevant. No one expects you to get anything done. If you do, there’s constant bickering and unproductive political games along the way. As I write this, the budget still isn’t done although it may be by the time this column is published. But it’s all too late. We’ll be in this situation again, for sure. You just can’t or don’t want to govern properly. Saying that, I am always available for you to call or e-mail me or maybe even visit to set me straight that yes, indeed, you are working hard to get us out of this crisis as fast as you can. I’m all ears because the greatest state in the United States is going down the toilet. It may have already gone down. We may never be able to repair this. And it’s on your watch. I’ll remind you over and over and over and over about that. You people have done nothing to show us that you really care about your constituents during this current crisis in government. At the newspaper, we’re not getting any press releases telling us that you are contributing to a solution to this crisis. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, maybe your releases have gone to my spam file because they were seen as junk mail full of empty promises. We’ve given you lots of time to figure things out. It has been many, many months now. You don’t even have a coherent plan of any sort that makes any sense. For awhile, it has been very difficult to do business in this state, but now it’s very difficult to live here. I hate people who criticize and don’t offer any suggestions, so now that I’ve got my frustrations off my chest, I’m going to be a little more constructive. There’s two ideas that I think are very interesting in this so-called “reform” movement brewing out there. We need to drastically change the way this state is governed. There are lots of ideas on the table and many are very good like revising the initiative process and getting rid of the two-thirds vote threshold for budgets. There are structural things in California’s government that need to be fixed. It IS hard for you guys to do your jobs because of the structure. I understand that. But I just don’t think you try very hard to deal with it. So what looks good for possible fixes? – The state badly needs a constitutional convention. We need to put lots of stuff on the table and vote on it. Goodness knows, we vote on everything else. – A part-time legislature. I know you won’t support that. But what do you have to show for full-time employment? Things are worse than ever. Maybe if you’re not so worried about your political careers and may need to get back to work at your real jobs you’d actually get something done. I truly believe that California is not too big for a part-time legislature. Think about it. Business Journal Editor Jason Schaff can be reached at (818) 316-3125 or at [email protected] .