california: From my reading business leaders are pooling funds to sponsor an initiative to ask the voters of California to re-write our state's constitution in an effort to make our state more competitive or so they argue. In Honduras, it is argued their leader had wanted to change the constitution so that it would allow him to remain in power. It seems like the only difference is in the wording. Why would people riot in one country and not in another one when they are affected in familiar ways?|||In Honduras the leader wanted to single-handedly change the constitution in a way that benefited only him. In California, they want to hold a convention consisting of people democratically elected to the job from all over the state to make wholesale revisions to the constitution about things that have nothing to do with them personally. Not very similar at all.|||A lot of dumb people in California. They haven't yet figured out that the reason the democrats want to rewrite the constitution is because they now have to have a 2/3 majority to raise any taxes and have a balanced budget every year. They don't like that. It has really been a handicap to them.|||I'm not all that familiar with the Honduras situation, but there is a world of difference between rewriting a national constitution and rewriting a state or local constitution. You can bet that if Obama (or Bush or whoever) rewrote the US constitution, there would absolutely be rioting, maybe worse. The main problem I see with the California government is that it is bloated with ballot propositions, many of the more recent ones being put forth by our own Arnie. Almost every proposition involved spending money somewhere, so when it passes, the state has to spend that money. If the money comes from a bond, that bond is basically a debt that has to be repaid. I haven't really heard the media mention anything about this, but how much of our current financial situation is due to bond debts that must be repaid? We are like a shopoholic who has been putting everything on the credit card, but now we have had our pay cut and there is no way to make ends meet. I think we really do need to reevaluate our state constitution, and revisit the reforms of the early 20th century (ballot propositions, recall, etc) that were much needed then but need updating for today's world.|||The Constitution of California is pretty complex more than any other state, I think they will make changes to benefit the economic powerhouse that makes California strong. Maybe the will go and sign off and declare Independence and make it a country.|||Honduras is a great example of a working democracy and true state of law, when the president tried to change the constitution he got kicked out of office, period. In California nothing is gonna happen because there is so much money involved and lets face it, people in the US are lot less educated than other parts of the world, and they are also very comfortable, they won麓t move until they fully understand whats going on, I feel sorry for them.