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Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the future. It’s here now and inserting itself into the present more and more each day.

You’re probably using AI right now, as Forbes magazine points out in The 10 Best Examples Of How AI Is Already Used In Our Everyday Life. And, in its State of Workers 2024 Report, research firm Morning Consult finds, “Many workers are integrating AI into their jobs. Nearly half (44%) of employed U.S. adults said they use AI at work, and they are more likely to think that AI has a positive impact (42%) on the workplace than a negative one (30%).”

Too much is at stake for there not to be some major broadsides into the epidemic of retail theft that has infected California in particular. A critical mass of heavyweight politicos, fed-up constituents, and one-time, unquestioning friends of Proposition 47 has now been reached that will make turning back an increasingly impossible maneuver.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, in a January 24 conversation hosted by the Public Policy Institute of California, did not phrase it – or, possibly, mean it this way — but you can’t be faulted for reading ‘Republicans need not apply’ into the subtext of his remarks on finding solutions to the state’s mammoth budget defici

In an October 16 editorial in the Los Angeles Times, columnist Joe Mathews reminded readers that this was the 20th anniversary week of Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming governor of California upon the recall of predecessor Gray Davis.

It is tempting but perhaps a bit unfair to say that Big Labor was not the big winner following the 2013 legislative session and the October 14 deadline for Governor Newsom to act on measures sent to him. However, in truth, retail thieves were the real victors and Californians suffered a bitter defeat, because not a substantive thing was done to stop the malignant and metastasizing effect these criminals are having everywhere in the state.

California’s Legislature doesn’t do things in half measures. No incrementalism for it. The progressive mindset – and numerical superiority — that took over in 2021 and continues its hegemony today does it up bold, sweeping, and comprehensive. Building blocks take too long to assemble. Best to have whole policy mansions drop ready-made from the sky.

What will it take? What will be the final straw? The bad news abounds, especially in San Francisco, which has become ground zero for what can happen to a community when a state neglects its first duty to provide for the public safety.

Start hoarding those Skittles and Hot Tamales. Assembly Bill 418 would “prohibit a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale, in commerce a food product that contains,” among other medically threatening food coloring, red dye No. 3. Who would have thought those harmless boxes of candies we downed at movie theaters would one day be a contraband? Certainly not our own federal Food and Drug Administration. According to a committee analysis of AB 418, “Red dye no. 3 has not been reviewed by the FDA since 1982.”

This Legislature and its labor allies, the team most responsible for driving Californians and small businesses out of the state, are tired of people having a say in what they confect and instruct a pliant governor to OK.

More exciting than Dot Racing on the Jumbotron of your nearest stadium, the California State Legislature fired the starter’s pistol for 2,741 bills to start their tortuous journey through the subcommittee, committee, and floor passage process of their house origin and then go on to the subcommittee, committee, and floor passage process of the opposite house before having a chance to land on the governor’s desk for his signing or veto.

Validated! Let the fast-food fight begin.

Now that the California Secretary of State has officially certified a referendum for placement on the November 2024 General Election ballot that challenges the state’s wholesale seizure for itself of all wage and workplace decisions away from fast-food franchisees, the battle for the future of free enterprise is engaged.

The Kabateck Strategies team wishes its readers of these Kabatexts and their families the very best of Christmases and highly encourages everyone to embrace the holiday spirit for the one week you have left.