CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 04/16/2015

174,301 people or 6 fish—California Bureaucrats Give Water to Fish By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:49 pm In the midst of a water shortage caused by government policies, NOT the drought, Congressman Denham found another example that it is policy killing off the fiscal stability of California. This is another example of how government has killed off the California Dream.     Government employees, that we pay, have determined six fish are […] Read More and Comment: 174,301 people or 6 fish—California Bureaucrats Give Water to Fish Covered California’s Putting a Cap on Needed Drugs—Jerry Brown/Obama lied and people will die By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:45 pm We were told that the elderly were eating cat food to afford high priced drugs—if true, at least they were allowed the drugs to stay alive. Under the Covered California/Obamacare scheme even cat food will not save the money needed for the drugs you need to stay alive. “Specifically, the exchange board in March voted […] Read More and Comment: Covered California’s Putting a Cap on Needed Drugs—Jerry Brown/Obama lied and people will die Great News for Los Angeles Government—More Tax Hikes Allowed by State By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:43 pm Think your taxes are too high in California or in Los Angeles—wait till “moderate” Democrat Senator Bob Hertzberg gets his $122 billion sales tax increase (not a typo). Then for my LA friends, the Democrats in the State Senate are passing a bill to allow the County to raise the sales tax for “transportation”. You […] Read More and Comment: Great News for Los Angeles Government—More Tax Hikes Allowed by State How California’s red tape hurts Google Fiber, future telecommunications upgrades By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:41 pm We know it takes years to build homes, office buildings, shopping centers. It took a Burger King franchisee 17 years (not a typo) to get the needed permits—imagine the added costs to that facility. Want to build a manufacturing plant? Think of the time and costs for the permits, environmental studies and more. Now we […] Read More and Comment: How California’s red tape hurts Google Fiber, future telecommunications upgrades Confused Guv Brown: Ready to Ditch Environmental Portion of Wasteful Delta Tunnel By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:39 pm Our Guv Brown seemed to be very confused. He tries to be more wasteful, job killing than Al Gore, than he finds out it will harm his revenues or the State debt would become public, so he backs away from massive expenditure of funds that are meant only to make him look good and chase […] Read More and Comment: Confused Guv Brown: Ready to Ditch Environmental Portion of Wasteful Delta Tunnel Pension Reform is BAD for Wall Street, and GOOD for California By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:37 pm What would happen if CalPERS and CalSTRS had to return to the days of responsible, fiscally viable investments? Instead of trying to chase higher returns, it looked to safety? “Before Prop. 21, just for example, pension funds might have purchased bonds to finance revenue generating projects such as dams, power stations and desalination plants, which […] Read More and Comment: Pension Reform is BAD for Wall Street, and GOOD for California LAUSD Uses 8300 Portable Classrooms—Permanently By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:33 pm If your child goes to LAUSD, it could be considered a priori evidence of child abuse. This is a district that tells bullies and dopers in the classroom, it is wrong, so go back to your desk. This is a racist school district, since it believes that if people of color (89% of the students) […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD Uses 8300 Portable Classrooms—Permanently Doing away with the high school exit exam By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:30 pm For the past two years California students have not taken a qualified, proven, tested, standardized test to determine if they are learning. Now the same folks that determined it was OK to use government schools as a holding place, have started the legislation to end Exit Exams in California. So, if all goes “well” for […] Read More and Comment: Doing away with the high school exit exam 2013 Charter Schools Data Added – Charter Teachers Make Substantially Less than Public–Provide Better Results By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:27 pm This is good news for a State that has a $340 billion debt, a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and a budget that is $113 billion, almost half of which is the cost of education. If we were to modernize the education process using technology, restricted government schools to education, not environmental causes, teaching […] Read More and Comment: 2013 Charter Schools Data Added – Charter Teachers Make Substantially Less than Public–Provide Better Results Will California Students Get to Take “Labor Studies” as a Class Elective? By Stephen Frank on Apr 15, 2015 07:24 pm California government schools have turned from preparing students for the future into propagandist’s camps for big government and the loss of freedom. Now it is possible that your high school student could learn how to close down a business, steal from workers, buy elections, promote the loss of human rights and be able to strike—all […] Read More and Comment: Will California Students Get to Take “Labor Studies” as a Class Elective?   In Case You Missed It: Runner Exposes SB 8—Fully Implemented Sales Tax Increase ADDS $122 Billion To tax Bill (Seriously) San Fran Car Thefts Up 18% –Burglaries Up 49%–Guv Brown/Laws the Cause EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit seeks to legalize prostitution in California 430,000 Lost Jobs to Illegal Aliens Between 2009-2013. Thanks go to Obama CalPERS/CalSTRS Raises Rates by 6%–Where Will Cities/Schools Get the Money