Right now the unemployment rate in California is twice that of the rest of the nation, with 125,000 homeless people, and high housing costs and high food costs, etc.
I see lots of bright spots, with Disneyland and Hollywood doing better, and with lots of new opportunities for film and television jobs, and improvements for tourism, etc, but we need to advance to get these homeless people into housing and to have an economy where people can comfortably afford food and shelter. And we have a new high speed train that is being built between Las Vegas and Southern California, etc, and Vegas is doing fantastic right now, it is easy to get a job in Vegas.
I think one big thing in California is that we need for our companies to be locally owned and operated, and we need for the companies to care about the people here and to be altruistic here.
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood is closing, and the students will have to train at their New York City location now. It is sad, and I do not understand it, the movie and television studios should love to have schools which are training people here to work in the Entertainment Industry, and instead the schools go unsupported and close. Jessica Chastain attended the AADA about the same time that I did, and she was very successful with "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" which she produced herself with her own production company. The AADA is a great school, and the studios should have supported the AADA here instead of letting it close. Now the actors have to go to New York to train. And what about USC film school, and Chapman film school? They need actors for their student films, etc. The studios should love to have the schools here training people to work at the studios. But the fucking problem is we have studios owned by Japanese corporations that are sending the money home to Japan and they do not give a fuck about California, and to top it off they are still pissed off about the nukes.
In Anaheim Disney is American Owned, and Disney came to our City Council and asked how can we help Anaheim? Disney is being altruistic and will help the homeless here, and will build new parks, etc, along with creating jobs, etc. And Fullerton Community College is training people for jobs at Disneyland, etc. We need for other companies all over California to be altruistic like Disney. Instead of just being greedy while the streets are full of homeless people and while the cities become ghettos, then we need for the companies to care, like Disney, and to come to our cities to ask, How can we help the city?
And the whole Japanese Business Model is BULLSHIT, they work themselves to death for heartless corporations and then when they are old and worthless they commit suicide. The Japanese love suicide. I do not want to work for the Japanese, and I do not want to rent from the Japanese, and I do not want to get on that treadmill, and it is bad for Art. I love the French Business Model much more, especially for Artists, and the Italian Business Model. The whole purpose of working is to have a good life and family, not just be a slave to a corporation and then kill yourself when you are old and worthless.
Say what you want about Henry Ford, but he gave the workers Saturday and Sunday off, and he was the first to do a 40 hour work week, and he paid better than everyone else, Henry Ford was very altruistic, and guys like him built America. And Henry Ford invested in Michigan, instead of sending the money to Japan.
We need to care about the 125,000 homeless people on the streets of California, and we need to be concerned that our unemployment rate is twice as high as the rest of the nation.
We have lots of water thanks to all of the rain, and we can grow food in California, and we can make wine, and we can employ the refugees in the United Farm Workers, etc, and we can export food to China, etc.
And Mayor Bass is doing a good job, and we have the Olympics coming up in 4 years, it can get better. People just need to care. And we need cheap hostels like in Rome where people can get a cheap bed and shower for $15 per night, and we need cheap sober living homes where people can rent a cheap bed for $450 per month, etc.
I would love to rise to the top and buy Universal Studios, and be altruistic, and make great films, television shows, and music, etc, both here in Hollywood, and at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. And instead of sending the money to Japan, I would spend money right here in the USA. Good people like me need to rise to the top here in Hollywood. We need people at the top who care about the homeless people on the street around the studio. And we need to support the AADA, and USC film school, and Chapman film school, etc, and we need to hire the graduates, and we can hire the writers from National Lampoon at Harvard, etc.
And as far as the fucking Japanese go, we need to send them a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and we can send them Vegas casinos, and we can build more McDonald's in Japan, etc. And we need to teach the Japanese how to enjoy life more, and how to care about people more than money. The people are more important than money, and money is just a tool to be used to make life better. Working yourself to death for some fucked up heartless corporation is a horrible life, the Japanese Business Model sucks. We need to teach the Japanese to be more like the French and Italians. It is BULLSHIT to work 100 hours per week just to die when you get old.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis has joined the G-7, so that will help the world to become a more compassionate and caring place.
Life is not about being punished for being born, and life does not have to be hard, it is hard enough that we have to grow old and die and watch everyone we love die, we should not make life worse by becoming a slave to some heartless corporation while our cities become ghettos full of homeless people, the Japanese Business Model sucks. I would rather work for the French, or the Italians. And workers need to be able to survive while working 40 hours a week, with Saturdays and Sundays off.
Salute,
Tony V.
