You are lucky your leaders(SoCal)want to rebuild the PE. It is a good idea so vote yes if that is really what is on the table.

Up here they throw money away on broad gauge.

The Romans were considered pagans; they in turn considered Christianity an oriental cult. Tacitus on the Christians:

"Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular."