CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 02/21/2015

Feds Want to Create NEW Tax—On Dessert—Track YOUR Time Watching TV By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:09 pm Michelle Obama is now getting into your food, your TV watching, and even promoting “interventionists” at you work place. Literally, the Feds want people hired to observe you at work and intervene if you have coffee and a donut at break time. This is NOT a joke—except on the American people, to see how our […] Read More and Comment: Feds Want to Create NEW Tax—On Dessert—Track YOUR Time Watching TV Obama Administration: Location of Talks on Port Closure More Important Than Issues between Unions and Reality By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:08 pm You can never estimate the silliness of the Obama Administration. For nine month the extortionist unions have caused billions in lose to California and American businesses. They want a raise for the dock workers—from the current average of $147,000 per year, plus free health care. The Administration sent the union toady, Thomas Perez, the Labor […] Read More and Comment: Obama Administration: Location of Talks on Port Closure More Important Than Issues between Unions and Reality One-Third of Californians Provided FREE Health Care—How Long Can We Afford This? By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:07 pm If Obama has his way, his amnesty would add one million illegal aliens to the role of Medi-Cal in California. In the past 120 days, Covered California has brought 750,000 people “free health care cards”. It should be noted that these folks have No doctors or hospitals that were created to treat them—they got cards, […] Read More and Comment: One-Third of Californians Provided FREE Health Care—How Long Can We Afford This? FBI joins fraud investigation of Bay Area public housing agency By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:06 pm Government by definition is corrupt. By action it helps some to the detriment of others. It is fraud waiting to happen. In the Bay Area, they have found just one example of the criminal actions of those inside of government. “A subsequent story found that Holter had steered almost $80,000 of emergency maintenance contracts to […] Read More and Comment: FBI joins fraud investigation of Bay Area public housing agency San Fran Truck Drivers Are Getting Sent to Pedestrian School By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:05 pm Want to be a truck driver, that delivers or picks up in San Fran, you need to go to school, to learn about how bikes control the streets that some streets are narrow and that it is wrong to hit a pedestrian. Guess truck drivers per the Luddites of San Fran are too dumb not […] Read More and Comment: San Fran Truck Drivers Are Getting Sent to Pedestrian School Covered California Break Rules to Defraud Even More Californians By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:05 pm Only government gets to break the law when it finds the law makes no sense. Covered California, the agency using bait and switch to sell health care cards now concludes that if you did not buy one of the cards with few doctors for service, it is because you are too stupid to understand you […] Read More and Comment: Covered California Break Rules to Defraud Even More Californians Court Decides Unions Control Bidding Process—Not Qualified Companies By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:04 pm You bid on a concrete contract to fix the streets. You have high quality product, your workers are top notch and guarantee you will finish on time. No complaints—except that unions demand you pay wages your workers did not demand, nor qualify for. This is called “prevailing wage”—a policy of making sure union contractors—firms that […] Read More and Comment: Court Decides Unions Control Bidding Process—Not Qualified Companies Will Democrats Need for Massive New Programs Cause Online Poker Approval—for the Money? By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:02 pm California Democrats want a $10 billion a year tax increase—putting a sales tax on your doctors’ bills, attorneys and CPA invoice, the dance lesson for your child and your yoga classes. Then you have an almost $2 billion gas tax, to build roads—though billions of current gas taxes are used not for roads, but bike, […] Read More and Comment: Will Democrats Need for Massive New Programs Cause Online Poker Approval—for the Money? Runner: Government Has More Than Enough Of Your Dollars By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:01 pm George Runner is a true friend of the taxpayers and families of California. To Democrats there can never be enough taxes levied. Democrats truly believe we do not have enough programs, to be used to buy votes. Together these two Democrat values have put the average Californian into a Depression, being served failed schools, bad […] Read More and Comment: Runner: Government Has More Than Enough Of Your Dollars New Director of California Court Agency Cuts Perk for Top Brass By Stephen Frank on Feb 20, 2015 08:00 pm We all knew, and they admit, CalSTRS and CalPERS have unsustainable unfunded liabilities. California pension plans may in the future be forced to close or cut the benefits on the retirees. Judges that have allowed lawsuits to stop any reform of the system have nothing to worry about—they have a special interest pensions system—they get […] Read More and Comment: New Director of California Court Agency Cuts Perk for Top Brass   In Case You Missed It: Ethically Challenged High Speed Rail Authority Caught CHEATING Again Prop. 47 Sentencing Reform Is Reaping Savings So Far–and Crime Wave NOT Counted In California’s Oil Patch, Activists Fight New Crude-By-Rail Terminal Shock: Union Owned LAUSD School Board Refuses to Bankrupt District for Unions Demands State to Use Regulations to Raise Cost of Living/Force More to Leave State