LA City Council faces $1 billion in budget shortfalls over the next four years. To fix it, they want to tax us more. But all that will do is to preserve the current levels of service, which I believe we can agree are supremely inadequate.

Odysseus was in Santa Monica on Saturday, speaking at the TEDx Santa Monica City 2.0 event about empowering citizens to collaborate directly with leaders in government through social media to build public policy.