YJ Draiman for Mayor of Los Angeles 2017

YJ Draiman Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles 2017
It is time for VOTERS to elect a candidate who represents the people with no hidden agendas

YJ Draiman for Mayor of Los Angeles - 2017

Honesty, Integrity and service to the people of Los Angeles

City Finances
Restore balance to the city's finances by promoting efficiency, rethinking the way we perform core government functions, and putting Los Angelinos back to work.

Draiman's Plan for Fiscal Sustainability

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LA faces a chronic budget crisis that threatens critical services and weakens our competitiveness against other major cities. To meet that crisis head on, city government has to be reinvented. It has to deliver better services to residents and businesses and better value to LA taxpayers. Transparency and accountability must be improved, and LA will have to make tough budget choices at the same time that it invests in and plans for the future. Draiman’s Government Reinvention and Fiscal Sustainability Agenda details more than $900 million in efficiencies and better use of existing resources to support reinvention and balance LA’s budget.

Immediately Address the City's Fiscal Imbalance

LA’s 2011 budget relied heavily on reserve funds and stimulus money that is no longer available. Delay in addressing the financial crisis won’t work, and Draiman will begin immediately to implement reforms and balance the budget when he takes office. Just like households and businesses around the city have to do, having some money left at the end of the year is an important discipline and a sign that the city has started to live within its means.

YJ Draiman’s vision is to make Los Angeles the World Capital of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation.

YJ Draiman’s vision is to make Los Angeles the World Capital of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation.

Los Angeles Economic Development –rev.3

It is time to remake Los Angeles in the image of our boldest vision – a city of healthy communities with good schools and quality education, innovative companies in new and emerging sectors, quality open space, improved public transportation, a range of mobility and housing options; and above all, a prosperous and productive middle class equipped with the skills and education to create a better future. It is time to get serious about designing a real economic development program linked to investments in healthy communities. I recently proposed to make Los Angeles the World Capital of Renewable Energy, Energy and Water Efficiency. We have the climate, the manpower, the resources and technology. We must promote energy and water efficiency in all sectors of LA’s economy. This by itself can save the city billions and bring many jobs and economic growth into Los Angeles. We should promote real estate gentrification, affordable housing, urban infill building, economic development and clean tech sorted through the parts of redevelopment worth retaining and retooling combined with some newer elements of economic development necessary to realize this vision of healthy communities. In the past five years many businesses in LA have closed down or moved out. There are many vacant properties (commercial and residential). Many people have moved out of LA. They can not afford the cost of living, the high taxation, the stifling bureaucracy and varied rules and regulations that choke business development. We have a dysfunctional leadership in Los Angeles, an inefficient workforce, a demand for entitlement, and crippling budget deficits that are creating an environment of uncertainty for many companies who want to hire people, but are afraid to do so. Capital is stagnant and unattainable, frozen by an over swing of regulation and bureaucracy. We want to get Los Angeles working again, yet many of our wounds are self inflicted, as LA bureaucrats go to work every day piling more regulations and taxes onto the very businesses we ask to grow and create more jobs. This situation must change, or we are doomed. It is imperative that we reverse this trend. YJ Draiman http://www.yjdraimanformayor.com"

Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Draiman says that voters deserve to hear from all Mayoral candidates on the ballot

Draiman says that voters deserve to hear from all Mayoral candidates on the ballot

It is anti democratic to ignore candidates who have earned their place to be on the ballot.

In the current political mood and the growing apathy by voters it is imperative that every candidate who is officially on the ballot to be heard by the public.

Ignoring these candidates only reinforces to the voting public that money and not the most qualified candidate is given a chance to run for office with a level playing field.

The deck is stacked against a candidate who is not willing to be swayed by money and political influence. This is a sad day for our Democracy.

The Media and the various organizations who host a candidate forum – debate have a great responsibility to present unbiased information to the public, of all the candidates that appear on the ballot with a level playing field.

To ignore some candidates is a distortion of our Democratic oath and they are practicing the very same unacceptable behavior that they are trying to correct in today’s political scene.

By ignoring candidates who are on the ballot the voters are deprived of critical information and opinions of all the candidates on the ballot. It is a disservice to the community at large.

Angelenos have the right to an open and balanced election process resting on the values of our democracy, which is open to all candidates.

We have to show to the public how real democracy at work – by presenting all the candidates, not just the select few.

The right to vote is the right that protects all other rights. That includes all official candidates.

YJ Draiman

http://draimanformayor2013.com

Will Los Angeles get the Economic and Political Revolution that it so desperately needs?

Will Los Angeles get the Economic and Political Revolution that it so desperately needs?

Only time will tell. What’s certain for now is that only when the machine and its masters no longer dictate and control L.A.’s fate can this diverse and dynamic region recover and resume its ascent toward greatness.
“Los Angeles government by the people for the people” Let us take back our city from the corrupt politicians.
YJ Draiman for Mayorhttp://economicsustainability.net/

“Politicians or statesmen”

“Politicians or statesmen”

My desire for future elections is that the people will select more and more statesmen, in city, state and federal elections. I look forward to the day when only statesmen will run for office. A statesman is a servant leader who is not concerned about his political future, but in what is best for the people. A statesman is open-minded, logical, intelligent and compassionate. A statesman reconciles conflict and looks into the future. Unfortunately, many elected officials are not statesmen or even leaders. They are in office to make themselves feel important, to gain power and sometimes to get money. This kind of elected official is caustic, negative and hateful who stirs up messes, acts self-righteous, gets personal and calls other people names, and is the first to claim he is not a "politician" and that he "is working for the people." Some think success is getting their picture in the paper handing out a check. Some elected officials think their job is to be against the chief and other elected officials regardless of the issue."http://www.yjdraiman.org/

“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.”

“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.”

Educational ideals and aspirations
Before we can figure out how to build an education system or assess whether an educational system meets the goals and ideals we aspire to as a moral & ethical society, we must first ask ourselves what those goals and ideals are. Note the important word in that sentence: ideals. Yes, ideals do matter, even if we often fall short of them, because of the other important word in that sentence: aspire. It is the, the aspiration to ideals, which tells much about what a person considers serious and important and defines the direction of his life. When a kid plays baseball, he imagines himself becoming the next Derek Jeter -- he doesn't aspire to becoming the next 40 year old overweight guy in the Sunday breakfast league. When a kid starts to learn, he should similarly imagine himself becoming the next Albert Einstein, the next Beethoven, and put in hours trying to make that dream come true -- not aspire to becoming a...

40 year old person who can barely read economics with the help of a commentary. At some point in life a person matures and is forced to realize he is not Derek Jeter and maybe becoming a lawyer rather than count on playing shortstop for the Yankees is not a bad idea. And at some point down the road most students will realize they are not Albert Einstein or the Beethoven and they too will need to make concessions to reality as well. But those decisions can come long after elementary school, even after high school.

So what are the big dreams we should to inspire students to think about? Should we inspire them to go figure out a cure for cancer, perform some valuable social service that can help the needy, improve the world in some other way? All those are important goals, but they are secondary and far less important than the one goal for which a Human being was created.

The famous scholar asks in his introduction to a commentary he is writing on values: "Why is man here; for what was he created?" The Scholar answers that man was created for one purpose alone -- to imbue his soul with the wisdom of G-d. All other wisdom is valuable only to the extent that it enables man to draw closer to that singular goal. The scholar continues that even if a person lived a holy life of a monk, perfecting his nature and character, performing good deeds, avoiding sin and temptation, he would still be imperfect so far as he did not devote himself to attaining the knowledge of G-d.
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It is voter apathy that prevents people from voting – Yehuda YJ Draiman

It is voter apathy that prevents people from voting – Yehuda YJ Draiman

It is known that many people distrust’s politicians and the “system”, and many people believe that their vote is worthless in the end. This leads to high levels of “voter apathy”, especially in municipal and state elections.
We need to educate the people that their votes do count, that each vote helps them to exercise their constitutional right in a Democratic country.
I know many voters claim that the elections are controlled by special interests groups and the money people.
I feel very strongly that if the masses of people would rise up and vote, we could overcome the special interests groups and the money people. After all the peoples numbers are much greater than the special interests groups and the money people.
It is a government by the people for the people.
I plead with all voters please exercise your right and vote.
Thank you
Yehuda YJ Draiman
http://yehudayjdraiman.com