CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 04/07/2015

Los Angeles Crime Spikes High—Minorities VICTIMS of ACLU and White Guilt By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:40 pm AB 109 brought our State prison population down from 167,000 to 113,000, as of January, 2015. Prop. 47 made felonies misdemeanors so that many criminals that would go to jail, instead get to go to Starbucks, to celebrate. At the same time government schools are refusing to turn in bullies and kids carrying drugs, guns […] Read More and Comment: Los Angeles Crime Spikes High—Minorities VICTIMS of ACLU and White Guilt Obama War on Women Succeeds: 56,131,000 Women Not in Labor Force; Women’s Labor Force Participation Matches 27-Year Low By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:35 pm Teenagers and minorities have record number of NON-participation in the Labor market and massive unemployment numbers. Now we know that Barack is also succeeding in his efforts to make women impoverished as well. ObamaCare assures that most new jobs are under 30 hours a week, many at minimum wage pr low pay and few benefits. […] Read More and Comment: Obama War on Women Succeeds: 56,131,000 Women Not in Labor Force; Women’s Labor Force Participation Matches 27-Year Low CalSTRS: We Are an Ideological Pension System—Retirees Be Damned By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:32 pm If you are on the Board of Directors of a bank, a financial institution, an insurance company or a pension plan, you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize revenues, limit expenditures and assure long term sustainability of the pension system. Yet CalSTRS has determined it is no longer a pension plan, it is an organization […] Read More and Comment: CalSTRS: We Are an Ideological Pension System—Retirees Be Damned Bill Would Require Search Warrants For Digital Files By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:29 pm While you are reading this article in the newsletter California Political News and Views not only is the NEA looking over your shoulder—but the State of California can be reading your email at the same time. You thought the State would need to get approval from a Judge? Wrong! “ACLU attorney Chris Conley says the […] Read More and Comment: Bill Would Require Search Warrants For Digital Files Growing Almonds: GALLON of Water PER Nut By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:26 pm For a single almond it takes a gallon of water. So savor every morsel. But it is not the most water intensive crop in California—the growing of marijuana takes even more—and it maybe that in California more people take a “hit” than chew on an almond. ““There’s 80 acres of almonds up there straight ahead,” […] Read More and Comment: Growing Almonds: GALLON of Water PER Nut Post Office: To Provide Bad Service to Save Itself—NOT a Joke By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:23 pm The good news is that the U.S. Post Office, with a third straight year of an $8 billion deficit, is cutting back. The bad news is that instead of providing great service, to keep customers and to expand their customer base, the Post Office has declared the way to save itself is through really bad […] Read More and Comment: Post Office: To Provide Bad Service to Save Itself—NOT a Joke EPA to Hire Trainers: Teach Government Employees How to LIE By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:21 pm The EPA is going to control how you BBQ. The EPA has used tax dollars to develop a device to monitor your shower use and how long. The next step is an automat cut off—in the name of conservation. The EPA has created energy regulations to cause 50% of all cars on our roads by […] Read More and Comment: EPA to Hire Trainers: Teach Government Employees How to LIE Legislation Revives Effort To Limit Medi-Cal Estate Recovery By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:18 pm If you are on Medi-Cal, when you die your belongings, home, car, jewelry and anything of value goes to the State of California. In the past, this was done rarely. Now that 12 million people are getting “free” health care, the State can no longer ignore this law. Sadly, the people forced to go into […] Read More and Comment: Legislation Revives Effort To Limit Medi-Cal Estate Recovery Obama Budget: $1.6 TRILLION in NEW Taxes =$6 Trillion Deficit By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:16 pm Since Obama became President the national debt has gone from $11 trillion to over $18 trillion. When he leaves office it will be north of $20 trillion—with at least a one trillion dollar addition for each of the NEXT ten years. With this growth of debt, the President has also decided to raise taxes by […] Read More and Comment: Obama Budget: $1.6 TRILLION in NEW Taxes =$6 Trillion Deficit Obamacare’s Misery Index: How Covered California Imposed ‘Widespread Consumer Misery’ By Stephen Frank on Apr 06, 2015 07:12 pm In California we have a shortage of doctors. So the State added millions of people to Medi-Cal without adding a single doctor. Now you get to see a nurse—who never stepped inside a medical school or passed any tests or took internships to learn about being a doctor. Thanks to ObamaCare and Covered California families […] Read More and Comment: Obamacare’s Misery Index: How Covered California Imposed ‘Widespread Consumer Misery’   In Case You Missed It: Half of California Doctors Say NO to New Medicaid Patients—Others Limit the Number Accepted Tax Incentives Are for the VERY Rich: Tesla Buyers Making Twice U.S. Average Brown Ends the Green in California “On Strike/Shut it Down”–UC student health center doctors plan five-day strike California State Treasurer: Politics and Ideology Over-Rules Pension Fiduciary Responsibility