People die in bed and so does ambition. Therefore, it is essential to never give up. “Thou shalt not be idle; for he that is idle shall not eat the bread, nor wear the garment of the laborer,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 42.42. We are here for a great purpose and it is not meant for us to just have fun and accumulate materials things. While it is important to enjoy life and have a clean and safe place to live, we are here to do the Lord’s work. We must work righteousness in the Earth, subdue wickedness, and conquer sin in our souls. Everyone experiences their identities differently, but everyone experiences who they are. We act in the world and interact with other people as the person we believe ourselves to be. Our very names designate our personal, as well as family, identities, and we act in the ways expected of the person so named. Some psychologists describe a person’s sense of his or her identity with the term self. This term implies that the individual is somebody in particular (a self), and it also signifies that this individual can experience his or her being in several perspectives, or modes, such as the modes of perception, of conceptualizing, and of imagination. The structure of the self has a great deal to do with one’s success, one’s ability to accomplish goals set by self or by others. #RandolphHarris 1 of 28

The self-concept is the picture we have of ourselves. In recent years, the importance of this concept has become established as a factor in school achievement, social behavior—almost all facets of one’s life. It often includes an appraisal or evaluation of self as “good” or “bad,” judgments we make about our own intelligence, attractiveness, and abilities. The self is the unique, special identity, the person, the personality. Under its synonym, the personality, the self has a great collection of research behind it, and it is a never-ending cause of concern, wonder, pride, or even sometimes shame for the human being who attempts to discover self. The ideal self is the person or self we think we ought to be. It is important, in that too big a difference between one’s self-concept and one’s ideal self indicates a good deal of dissatisfaction with one’s self and is often associated with behavior or emotional problems. The public self is the image or picture of ourselves that we give to the general society. It includes the way we want to be seen by others and often involves hiding some aspect of self or showing only certain aspects of self. However, the authentic person discloses his or her whole self comfortably and allows very little distinction between the public self and the real self. Sometimes the public self is also called the social self. #RandolphHarris 2 of 28

The real self is a bit of mystery. It is not as readily defined as other terms about the self. It involves our perception of our own being, being aware of the flow of our own consciousness. We come to know our real self by reflecting upon our experience candidly and through objective observations and evaluation of self. However, in the same manner that philosophers may debate for centuries the nature of reality, so some self-psychologists question the existence of a real self. Our best self is that aspect of the personality that we know as the best of ourselves that we can create, whether in secluded privacy or in blazing public light. It is roughly equivalent to the healthy personality at its best. It is significant as one of many descriptions of the high-level-functioning person. Healthy personality calls for action that achieves satisfaction of persons’ basic needs and that fulfills the projects they undertake to give meaning and direction to their lives. Persons sense of their identity has a decisive influence upon what action they feel free to engage in and what is taboo for them. Thus, persons can so define themselves that the very action that is essential for their wellbeing and growth is not compatible with their self-concept, their self-ideal, or their public self. Accordingly, they refrain from the activity and live out their identities, even though it may be sickening them. #RandolphHarris 3 of 28

We have already seen that Little Red Riding Hood’s childhood adventure with the wolf (her grandfather) had a profound effect on her life when she grew up. Knowing what real people do, it is not hard to surmise also what happened to Cinderella after she married. She found that being a Princess was lonely. She wanted to play, “Try and Catch Me” with the Prince some more, but he was not much fun. She teased her sisters when they came to visit her, but that did not amuse her for long either, particularly since they were not very good sports about it now that she had the upper hand. The King sometimes looked at her oddly, and he was not as old as he pretended to be, but he was not as young as he pretended to be either; in any case, she did not want to think about things like that. The Queen was nice to her, but very proper as a Queen had to be. As for the rest of the people at court, Cinderella had to be very proper to them. In due time, she did have the son that she and everybody else were waiting for, and there was much joy and celebration. However, she did not have any other children, and since the little Duke was taken care of by nursemaids and governesses as he grew up, Cinderella was soon as bored as before, particularly during the day when her husband was out hunting, and in the evening when he sat with his gentlemen friends losing money at cards. #RandolphHarris 4 of 28

After a while, she made an odd discovery. The people who interested her most, although she tried to keep it a secret, were the scullery maids and the cinder maids who cleaned the fireplaces. She would find all sorts of excuses to be around while they were working. Pretty soon, she was making suggestions to them from her own long experience with these matters. Then she found, riding around the little kingdom in her carriage, sometimes with her son and his governess and sometimes without them, and strolling through the less affluent parts of the towns and villages, something she had known all along: all over the kingdom there were thousands of women doing scullery work and cleaning out hearths. She would stop and gossip with them and talk about their work. Soon she got into the habit of making regular rounds to some of the least affluent homes where the women had to work the hardest. She would put on old clothes and sit in the cinders with them talking, or help them in the kitchen. Word soon got around in the kingdom about what she was doing, and the Prince even quarreled with her about it, but she insisted that that was what she wanted to do more than anything else, and kept on doing it. One day, one of the ladies of the court, who was also bored, asked permission to go with her. #RandolphHarris 5 of 28

As time went on, others got interested. Pretty soon, dozens of noble ladies were putting on their oldest clothes every morning and going into town to help the less affluent housewives with the meanest work, meanwhile gossiping with them, and hearing all sorts of interesting tales. Then the Princess had the idea of all the helping ladies getting together to talk about the problems they encountered, so she organized them into the Ladies’ Cinder and Scullery Society, with herself as President. Now, whenever foreign chimney sweeps, vegetable-peddlers, woodcutters, scullery maids, or trash-collectors passed through town, they were invited to the palace to talk to the Society about what was new in their trades and how things were doing in their countries. In this way, Cinderella found her real self and her place in life, and she and her new friends contributed much to the welfare of the kingdom. For many people, a monogamous marriage means putting an end to the alternation between new and the old, the challenging and the reassuring, at least as far as pleasures of the flesh is concerned. They lack the imagination or the motivation to revitalize interest in pleasures of the flesh in their own marriage, and the only variety to suggest itself to them is having a variety of partners. Since they find this morally unacceptable, or simply too risky, they settle for security and, no matter how reluctantly, accept as a fact that monogamy inevitably becomes monotony. #RandolphHarris 6 of 28

However, the wish that it could be otherwise remains strong. And so, it is only to be expected that a great many men and women today, who until now have believed that fidelity with pleasures of the flesh was an ideal to uphold, even if they themselves could not hold to it, are fascinated by arguments that make a case for the acceptance of extramarital pleasures of the flesh. They half want to be persuaded that having one married partner need not mean having just one partner for pleasures of the flesh, that any modern could should be able to enjoy the challenge of extramarital affairs. Looked at one way, it amounts to offering husbands and wives the opportunity to have their cake and eat it, too. Looked at another way, it amounts to a magic cure for marital doldrums. Either way, the lure is powerful. However, even more powerful is the Law of Chastity. God wanted His spirit children to be born into families so they could be properly cared for and taught. The Law of Chastity states that we are to have sexual relations only with our spouse to whom we are legally married. No one, male of female, is to have sexual relations before marriage. After marriage, pleasures of the flesh are permitted only with our spouse. “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” reports Exodus 20.14. #RandolphHarris 7 of 29

Emotions are the primary means by which we make contact. Emotions need to be expressed to be complete. Take the feeling of excitement. It seeks to express itself in contact with other human beings. Excitement, the basic life energy of the individual, is almost inconceivable without a recipient of that force. A child who gets an “A” on her spelling test bursts with excitement until she can get home to tell her mother. Or the young man who has just seen a wonderful movie cannot wait to tell his best friend about it. If we do not express them, share them with another, the five basic emotions of anger, fear, hurt, joy, and love are incomplete. Likewise, if we cannot express our emotional life, core relationships cannot grow, or even exist for that matter. It is no wonder the manipulator fails to form such relationships and suffers the maladies of blocked emotions. The manipulator, blocking anger, might be said to be seething with resentment. This anger is incomplete and eventually, turned inward, results in feelings of resignation and depression. Fear keeps the manipulator imprisoned when she or we does not express it. The manipulator becomes a worrier, nibbling at the edges of the prison cell, unable to break free of phobias. #RandolphHarris 8 of 28

Hurt, when not expressed, cannot be finished with. It, too, simmers inside to become a pervasive, long-lasting sadness that threatens normal self-esteem. Repressed joy can destroy ambition, intellectual development, inquisitiveness, and awareness. Joy is the pay-off for almost everything we do, and without it, life and its challenges become nothing more than drudgery. Unrequited love may be sad, but unexpressed love is a tragedy. It provides the manipulator with a lifetime of regret over what might have been. Withholding caring, or incomplete love, is like giving a stone to another instead of bread. It affects adversity both the one who would not give and the one who does not, therefore, receive. When we proceed from these general viewpoints to the particulars of individual neuroses, the picture at first sight is confusing. There is simply nothing that may not be invested with pride. What is a shining asset to one person is a disgraceful liability to the next. One person is proud of being rude to people; another is ashamed of anything that could be construed as rudeness and is proud of his sensitiveness to others. One is proud of his ability to bluff his way through life; still another is ashamed of any trace of bluffing. Here is one who is proud of trusting people and there is one equally proud of distrusting them—and so forth and so on. #RandolphHarris 9 of 28

However, this diversity is bewildering only as long as we regard the special kinds of pride out of the context of the whole personality. As soon as we see each of them from the perspective of the individual’s total character structure, an ordering principle emerges: his need to be proud of himself is so imperative that he cannot tolerate the idea of being in the clutches of blindness; so he uses his imagination to turn these needs into virtues, to transform them into assets of which he can be proud. However, only those compulsive needs which serve his drive to actualize his idealized self undergo this transformation. Conversely, he tends to suppress, deny, despise those which obstruct this drive. His capacity for this unconscious reversal of values is perfectly amazing. The best medium through which to present it would be cartoons. There it could be shown most vividly how people afflicted with some undesirable trait take a brush, paint over the trait with beautiful colors, and present with blustering pride the picture of their assets. Thus, inconsistency turns into unlimited freedom, blind rebellion against an existing code of morals into being above common prejudice, a taboo on doing anything for oneself into saintly unselfishness, a need to appease into sheer goodness, dependency into love, exploiting others into astuteness. A capacity to assert egocentric claims appears as strength, vindictiveness as justice, frustrating techniques as a most intelligent weapon, aversion t work as “successfully resisting the deadly habit of work,” and so on. #RandolphHarris 10 of 29

These unconscious processes often remind me of the Trolls in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, for whom “black looks white, and ugly fair, big looks little, and filthy clean.” Most interestingly, Ibsen accounts for this reversal of values in a way like our own. If you live in a self-sufficient dream world like Peer Gynt, Ibsen says, you cannot be true to yourself. Between the two, there is no bridge. They are too different in principle to allow for any compromise solution. And if you are not true to yourself, but live an egocentric life of imagined grandeur, then you will play ducks and drakes with your values too. Your scale of values will be just as topsy-turvy as is that of the Trolls. As soon as we go off on the search for glory, we stop being concerned about the truth of ourselves. Neurotic pride, in all its forms, is false pride. Once having grasped the principle that only those trends are invested with pride that serve to actualize the idealized self, the analyst will be alert to detect hidden price in any position which is tenaciously adhered to. The connection between the subjective value of a trait and neurotic pride in it seems to be a regular one. Recognizing either one of these factors, the analyst can safely conclude that in all probability, the other one will be there too. Sometimes the one, sometimes the other will come into focus first. Thus, a patient at the beginning of analytical work may express pride in his cynicism or in his power to frustrate others. And although at this juncture the analyst does not understand the meaning that the given factor has for the patient, he can be reasonably certain of it playing a significant part of the neurosis. #RandolphHarris 11 of 28

Undoubtedly, the master enjoys total freedom first as regards the slave, since the latter recognizes him totally, and then as regards the natural world, since by his work the slave transforms it into objects of enjoyment which the master consumes in a perpetual affirmation of his own identity. However, this autonomy is not absolute. The master, to his misfortune, is recognized in his autonomy by a consciousness that he himself does not recognize as autonomous. Therefore, he cannot be satisfied and his autonomy is only negative. Mastery is a blind alley. Since, moreover, he cannot renounce mastery and become a slave again, the eternal destiny of masters is to live unsatisfied or to be killed. The master serves no other purpose in history than to arouse servile consciousness, the only form of consciousness that really creates history. The slave, in fact, is not bound to his condition, but wants to change it. Thus, unlike his master, he can improve himself, and what is called history is nothing but the effects of his long efforts to obtain real freedom. Already, by work, by his transformation of the natural world into a technical world, he manages to escape from the nature which was the basis of his slavery in that he did not know how to raise himself above it by accepting death. #RandolphHarris 12 of 28

The very agony of death experienced in the humiliation of the entire being lifts the slave to the level of human totality. He knows, henceforth, that this totality exists; now it only remains for him to conquer it through a long series of struggles against nature and against the masters. History identifies itself, therefore, with the history of endeavor and rebellion. It is hardly astonishing that Marxism-Leninism derived from this dialectic the contemporary ideal of the soldier worker. Only he who is capable of sustained intellectual effort can understand this philosophy. Some people can understand philosophy and some most monumental concepts in an unclouded flash, but most people can understand, even its simplest ones only by slow degrees. Here first acquaintance is not enough. There must be many subsequent meetings before intimacy can be established. Thinking must not only approach these studies as worshippers approach a temple shrine, with the reverence they deserve, but must also become alive and dynamic. The intense intellectual joy of discovering a new truth—new, that is, to oneself, but as old perhaps as thoughtful humanity itself—equates with the intense aesthetic joy of creating or appreciating an art work. In the human body, the cerebral nervous system, with which man’s mental faculties are associated, does not develop until long after all the other chief organs have developed. This is symbolic of its evolutionary importance. In the human life, the thinking power does not attain full maturity until long after all the chief decisions, such as the choice of occupation, marriage-partnership, and religious affiliation have already been made. How much human error and consequent misery must therefore arise from the lateness of this development. #RandolphHarris 13 of 28

The award-winning Sacramento Fire Department is aware of their surroundings when performing their assigned tasks at an emergency scene. At an incident, they make a safe exist from the fire apparatus and look at the building or situation for safety hazards such as traffic, downed utility wires, and adverse environmental conditions. The introduction of new technologies requires fire fighters, paramedics, and EMTs to be familiar with their run areas and observant of new hazards. This includes the increasingly common photovoltaic power systems (solar power systems) and battery energy storage systems within electrical power grids. An incident on a street or highway must first be secured with proper traffic- and scene-control devices. A variety of traffic-incident management technqiues may be appropriate. Flares, traffic cones, and barrier tape are all measures that can help keep the public at a safe distance from the scene and to divert traffic around the area. Emergency vehicles can be placed to block traffic and protect the incident scene. The Sacramento Fire Department always operates within established boundaries and protected work areas. Changing fire conditions also will affect safety. Through situational awareness, fire fighters monitor the changing conditions and maintain safety. This continues even during the overhaul phase and while picking up equipment—watching out for falling debris, smoldering areas of fire, and sharp object. #RandolphHarris 14 of 28

If a safety officer is not on scene, another qualified person is assigned to monitor the atmosphere to ensure it is safe to remove Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) or enter the area without SCBA. Because of the chance for injury increases when you are tired, the Sacramento Fire Department does not let down their guard, even when the main part of the firefighting operation is over. When you think about professions, what comes to mind? Credentials, years of study and training, a code of ethics, status in the eyes of the community? Think of the medical caregiver, the legal specialist, the accountant, the architect, the teacher, the law enforcement officers, or the clergy member. What do they have in common with the profession you are training for and are about to enter—the Sacramento Fire Department? To truly understand your role as a fire fighter, paramedic, or EMT, you must first understand what people mean when they talk about a profession. A profession is a calling—a vocation. It is a livelihood, yes, but it does far beyond a simple occupation or “what you do” for a living. A profession is a way of being, a way of thinking, a way of behaving, and a way of growing. In short, it is a way of life, not just a job or a lifestyle. Most professionals would probably tell you that they do what they do because they love their work, that they could not do anything else, that they would do it even if they did not make money at all. The Sacramento Fire Department is just such a profession. That is why it is important to realize the difference between an occupation—a job—and a profession. #RandolphHarris 15 of 28

The job with the Sacramento Fire Department is the highest embodiment of the profession of service. When you become a commissioned officer in the Sacramento Fire Department, you join an elite body of leaders with a long, proud tradition of service to the country and a commitment to high ideals. “I’m doing what I want to do, and there’s no better feeling. Even after being hurt, I can’t wait to get up and go to work, because I enjoy my job. I love going to the firehouse. A nurse is someone I relate to a fireman, because you’re always helping somebody. A fireman should never expect to get a pat on the back, you just give yourself a pat of the back when you do a good job. That makes you feel good. Don’t wait for somebody else to pat you on the back. Just do your thing. When you come home in the morning, you look tired. Your wife and kids don’t know what you’ve been through. But if I’ve had a busy night on the job, I come home with a smile on my face, because I know I did something good, helped somebody or saved somebody’s property. I grew up working with a diverse group of firefighters; there were black and white firemen; they were all real men, and they taught me so much. Outside of that firehouse, in that neighborhood, it’s a cruel world. When people don’t have anything, they have nothing to lose. And it’s cruel. Life to some of those people means nothing. They kill people, they hurt people, they do a lot of nasty things to people, and it means nothing to them. You see a lot of violence. It makes you a little bit cold and a little bit distrusting to the people who are committing the crimes. But it makes you appreciate life a lot more when you go home to your family. #RandolphHarris 16 of 28

“I grew up in that area, in that firehouse, it’s part of my life. It’s something I’ll always cherish. I learned so much about life down there. I look at college-educated persons, and I can see that some of them don’t have any street sense. They don’t know what it is to be down at the bottom. Growing up there made me think a lot about the basic things in life. I don’t ever want a fancy house, I want a nice house. I want my kids to be well-educated, but I want them to know what does on out there on the streets. I want them to know the real world, so they won’t put themselves up on a pedestal. They still have to relate. Everybody is a human being. That’s one of the things I learned being there. There’s a whole world out there that people don’t see, especially people don’t live in a big city. I studied for over a year, and I’m on the captain’s list right now. I take an interest in administration, because I’m interested in the overall good of the fire department. I want to see our job work well. As a supervisor and a company officer, I have a lot of things I have to control. All I want a person to be if he works for me is to be honest and to be a fireman. I run a squad company and it’s taken me seven years, but I’ve built the heck out of a company, and I know everyone of my guys personally. But overall, my basic thing is that I still life being a company officer, and I still like fighting fires. #RandolphHarris 17 of 28

“Right now I can’t see myself in an administrative position. First of all, I’m too young. Not that I’m naïve. I try to cover everything that goes on in the job, but I haven’t got that tiger out of me yet. It’s still in my taken. As I say, I look forward to going to the firehouse, and if we have a busy day, I come home with a smile on my face. The pressures on the leadership are tremendous with the changes we’ve had. But everybody is pretty much back to normal. I never judge a person by what another person says about him. It’s how he deals with me. I’m on a squad company, and a lot of men think we’re macho. I don’t have that feeling. I’m just here because I enjoy the work and the different types of things you see. For example, yesterday we had a man down an elevator shaft. We had a crane on top of a car. We had a hazardous material spill last night. We do the scuba diving. We’re always doing something. Every day I go to work, I learn something different. And you can’t go wrong doing that. I was told when I was burned that I could have gone off on three quarters disability pay. To this day, does my back bother me? Yeah. Do my ears hurt me at a fire? A little bit. But that’s my love, that’s my life, second to my family. There’s no greater pleasures you can get than if you love your job and you go to work and enjoy yourself. Would I like an administrative job? No. It wouldn’t have been my style to leave the job. In the back of my mind, am I trying to fulfill something? Dedication to service, expertise, responsibility, and corporate culture.” #RandolphHarris 18 of 28

If you see a fire truck stopped in the street without the lights on, be very careful. Sometimes there is an emergency and you should not pass the fire truck. It might be a good idea to safely turn around and go another way because if you hit someone and they happen to die, you could be charged with manslaughter. Sometimes fire fighters are getting back into their vehicle and if you pass the apparatus, you may collide with a firefighter who is on foot. Also, be sure to look at their signals, sometimes emergency vehicles are in motions, albeit, slowly, and drivers try to pass them, and this could lead to a dangerous situation. Also, if you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through the intersection. Drive to the right as soon as it is safe and stop. Obey any direction, order, or signal given by a law enforcement officer, or a firefighter. Even if they conflict with existing signs, signals, or laws, follow their orders. When their siren or flashing lights are on, it is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle. If you drive to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster, you can be arrested. When you do this, you are getting in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews, or other rescue and emergency personnel. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to other peoples’ problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he or she is wrong. #RandolphHarris 19 of 28

California is the third most expensive state in the nation. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now consider low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruze, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income.  In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man. The average home price in California is nearly $1,000,000.00 USD, while the average salary is $96,036.00, meaning that most Californians cannot even afford to buy a home. California is having an affordability crisis. In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes things like food, automobile insurance, homeowner’s insurance, electricity. In fact, more than 3 million people in California are facing household hardship, and more than 300,000 of them are facing eviction soon. This comes at a time when California is having a shortage of affordable housing. This is caused by nearly half a century’s old laws that discourage homes sales and encourage higher rents. Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all of our jobs and money has more than 50 ghost cities. Ghost cities are regions will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard are amongst the names on that list. #RandolphHarris 20 of 28

Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal 2,500 and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American boarder open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risks to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security relevant alerts, such as end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure is the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalinating plants to help with the water shortage. The water is so plentiful that it is currently eroding land and causing homes to fall into the sea. #RandolphHarris 21 of 28

The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them prior to the situation becoming a crisis. Failure to take such mitigating actions is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. The American government must understand that significant time and resources must be invested in America. They must also encourage corporations to plan for both mitigating safety vulnerabilities in the short term and eliminating them in the long term. For instance, a company might begin by reaching out to the federal, state or local government and requesting tax incentives to provide security to dangerous communities, to help the government repair bridges and potholes. America needs an approach to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in American cities. There needs to be a road map by the end of 2025, outlining a prioritized approach to eliminate crisis situations in America. There is enough money to send aid to foreign nations, but the American government does not have enough money to care their infrastructure, provide adequate resources, nor end the affordable housing crisis. Nor is there enough money to fund other national critical functions (NCFs). These bad practices of putting America and Americans last is considered exceptionally risky, particularly to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. #RandolphHarris 22 of 28

Additionally, with inflation rates at an all-time high, American being in an unofficial recession for about a decade, all insurance in California is becoming unaffordable. State Farm has received an approval for an emergency rate increase, which was approved by the California Insurance Commissioner, to stabilize the market and protect policyholders. Starting 1 June 2025, homeowners will see an average of 17 percent increase, rental dwellings will see an increase of 38 percent, and Condo owners will see a rate increase of 15 percents. These rate increases are due to the distressed caused by the recent wildfires, which accumulated over $7 billion in claims. Furthermore, in 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1107, also known as the Protection California Drivers Act, into law which increases the minimum auto lability limits for bodily injury to $30,000 per person and $60,000 per accident. Senate Bill 1107 also increased the minimum liability limits for property damage to $15,000 per accident and the DMV deposit for uninsured drivers to $75,000. The bill went into effect on January 1, 2025. This means that drivers with existing policies with lower limits will renew at the new minimum limits on or after January 1, 2025, and insurance premiums could increase by as much as 54 percent. America is in a state of crisis right now because of mismanagement by democrats. With the median household income in Sacramento County being $88,724 and a 4-bedroom 2.5-bathroom Cresleigh home costing $798,059, how are people able to afford homes? Because an $800,000 home with a one percent down payment of $8,000, 30-year fixed loan at 4.176 percent interest comes with a monthly mortgage payment of $4,241. #RandolphHarris 23 of 28

The maximum percentage of your gross income that you should earmark for a monthly mortgage payment is calculated at 28 percent, and no more than 36 percent of your gross income to all debts, including mortgage. If you take 28 percent of the median household income per home in Sacramento County, homeowners can only afford a mortgage of $2,070.23 per month. And if you take 36 percent of their gross income to all debts, including mortgage, they should be devoting no more than $2,661.72 a month to these debts. Mortgage lenders must be using some kind of sorcery to get buyers into these expensive homes. To afford one of these homes using traditional guidelines, a household would need to gross $11,280.24 per month or $135,362.88 per year, but the median household in Sacramento County is grossing $7,393.67 or $88,724.00 and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Prices in Sacramento County are actually rivaling the Bay Area, and the Bay Aera is so expensive because they have more higher paying jobs and is a tourist destination. And with the State of California being in a budget deficit of $12 billion, Governor Gavin Newsom Granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care at a cost to taxpayers of $3 billion annually, while cutting vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless, and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by eliminating environmental reviews and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. #RandolphHarris 24 of 28

In fact, Mexico has been causing one of America’s worst environmental disasters. Fifty million gallon a day of industrial chemicals, untreated sewage, and trash flow from Tijuana, Mexico, into southern San Diego County daily. This toxic waste has been turning up on Imperial Beach, and is causing the miles of white sands to become polluted and the ocean breeze to smell of poop, which has been sickening residents and wildlife and costing San Diego millions in the form of lost tourism and health problems. The problem has been going on for more than a century. However, it has become a public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased, in recent years, and the waste treatment plants have no longer usable. The beach has been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and does not have a mind for business and should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased tax on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has given billions of taxpayer dollars away to illegal immigrants and protected them from law enforcement, while arresting law abiding Americans because they cannot afford to pay rent or mortgage and the homeless shelters are unsafe, overcrowded and have restrictions on who is allowed inside. Wars have been started over governments who tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Gavin Newsom has wars and fires breaking out on the streets, but goes out of his way to arrest people who have no place to live. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. #RandolphHarris 25 of 28

Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease, and he recently secured $10 trillion in investments. Additionally, in May of 2025m the United States of America collected a record $22.3 billion in tariff revenue. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowner’s insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. Much like the land crisis in Las Vegas, we could also run out of land to farm and will not be able to grow or cultivate our own food. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. Also, country of origin labeling is very important so Americans can know where their food is coming from and have the ability to support American farmers and ranchers. As money flows, it influences further investment. Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever.  And in the future, there may be food wars. Also, to ensure that we have farmland and buildable land for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrant to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a population that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in American, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. #RandolphHarris 26 of 28

When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in American which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send more money overseas. Buying American made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards on pollution. American companies must be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy. #RandolphHarris 27 of 28

As you can see, President Donald Trump and his pledge to “Make America Great Again,” is exactly what America needs to save the country and the American people. And yes, diversity is important, so you can see why it is also important to preserve blonde hair and blue eyes as the people with these characteristics are becoming a minority in America. We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence; we must understand before we can realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought, as apart from instinct, when it was itself still but a lurking tendency, belong far back in primeval time. The human intellect as we find it today, so rich and developed an instrument for the consciousness of the ego, did not arrived at this fulness without a series of graduated stages. We have had plenty of scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking long enough, but we have had very little inspired thinking. That is the world’s need. The intellect is cradled in selfishness but runs the evolutionary track into reason where it will one day finish at the winning-post of selflessness. As a reminder, parents, pleasure teach your children love America and be patriotic citizens and to buy goods and services made in America. It is also important to respect law and order and treat your elders with respect. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 28 of 28

The Winchester Mystery House

Experience an unforgettable journey back to the time of kings and queens with this entry ticket for The Winchester Mansion in Santa Clara, California which was the residence of Heiress Sarah L. Winchester. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After tour, there will be time enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages.

Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder through the miles of hallways in the World’s most mysterious mansion.

For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Please visit the online giftshop, and purchase a gift for friends and relatives as well as a special memento of The Winchester Mystery House. A variety of souvenirs and gifts are available to purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

We wish to express our gratitude to our families, ancestors, spirits, and friends and to our many associates and clients, whose lives touched our lives and whose ideas helped us to grow. We would also like to thank our employees and care takers for putting the technical ideas of this estate into conversational style, and we are, of course, extremely thank to all of our patrons for helping to keep the legacy of the Winchester Family alive. The Winchester Mystery House is full of surprises. What was your favorite, “Oooh!” moment during your visit at the mansion? (And for those of you who still have to check it off your bucket list… we will hopefully see you soon.)  https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Why Choose Harris?

Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. Harris will ensure you have the information you need to decide what to do next, whatever your home is facing. We’ll perform a diagnosis and detail what issues are present before starting any work. This gives you a personalized quote and service plan specific to your home’s needs – not some random quote based on the best guess. The only way we can do our best work is to make sure we handle the issues at hand. https://www.callharrisnow.com/about-us/

The Ultimate Driving Machine

BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space. With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands.

BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/

Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers

Randy advises clients with regard to business transition, taxable and tax deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. https://www.jmbm.com/l-randolph-harris.html

Cresleigh Bluffs at Plumas Ranch

Plumas Lake, CA | from the mid $400’s

Now Selling!

Welcome to Cresleigh Bluffs, the newest home community in Plumas Ranch!

Nestled in the heart of Plumas Lake, CA, Cresleigh Bluffs offers three distinct single story floor plans designed with efficiency and practicality in mind.

Home design is made easy with expertly crafted design packages exclusive to Cresleigh Bluffs. Choose from a variety of packages made to fit your taste and budget. Contact our dedicated sales associates to learn more. PlumasRanch@cresleigh.com

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