Friday, April 17, 2015

CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 04/17/2015

Obama Lied/People Died: Less Than 24 Hours After Obama Took Cuba off Terror List a Terror Group Sponsored by Cuba Kills 10

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:56 pm
Cuba is a terrorist nation—no one—except for Obama—denies that. For fifty years directly and via financing they have tried to over turn governments, support totalitarians who are in the Castro mode and killed tens of thousands of Cubans that only wanted freedom. Last week Barack shook the bloodied hand of Raul Castro. Now Barack has […]

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Simi Valley Saves Millions in Bond Refinancing: Has $70 Million in Unfunded Pensions

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:52 pm
Some stories have enough truth in them to make them seem real. This story says that because of “transparency” the City of Simi Valley decided to refinance bonds and saved $3 million. Huh? If the finance officer of the City was watching interest rates were headed down, and lots of bonds were being refinanced. Transparency […]

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State of California gets to Cast 9200 Ballots in “Local” Tax Election—Not a Joke

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:45 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled many years ago, “one man, one vote”. Wonder if the State of California ever heard of that rule? In a vote to increase taxes even the Federal government gets to vote—9.716 times (not a typo). Want a rigged election? In this mosquito district in Marin and Sonoma counties government agencies […]

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Low Housing Affordability Hurting San Diego’s Economy

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:42 pm
If workers cannot afford homes is an area, then employers will have to pay more or hire fewer employees? If homes are too expensive, great employees will not move to California, instead stay in Texas or Nebraska. The cost of fees and taxes, expensive regulations the lengthy times it takes to get permission to build, […]

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How Rising Retirement Benefit Costs Threaten Municipal Services in California

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:39 pm
CalPERS just announced that government agencies have to pay 6% more in the coming year for pension coverage. Over the next five years it is expected that they will ask for a total of 50% increase. Where will the cities and other agencies get the money? Either by raising of taxes, which many cities did […]

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Arroyo Grande to consider Stage I drought restrictions–Most cities will do this by end of Summer

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:36 pm
The economic disaster due to the bad water policies of the State have begun in earnest. Though the State claimed a day or so ago that the lack of water will not hurt our economy, the facts belie that whistling past the graveyard attitude of those that created the problem. Last year 300,000 prime agricultural […]

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For Businesses: Oakland Rent 50% Than San Fran

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:32 pm
San Fran is challenging Los Angeles for being the most poorly run city in the nation, as well as the most expensive. It took a while for the tech industry to realize they use electrons to communicate—it does not matter where they put their desk and computer. Now folks in San Fran are moving to […]

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Feds Have Issued 541,000 SSNs to Illegal Aliens

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:30 pm
If you have a Social Security card and a utility bill, you can get a California drivers license. If you have the drivers license, you can get on a plane—and except for the groping TSA people—have a pleasant trip anywhere in the nation. That card is used many ways—bank loans, purchasing of cars and more. […]

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Calpers Seeks 12 Percent Jump in California’s Payment to Pension Fund

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:26 pm
A few days ago CalPERS told local agencies they had to come up with 6% more money starting in July, just to keep the doors open. The cities do not have the money, especially since over a five year period it is expected that CalPERS will raise the mandated contribution by 50%. Now the State […]

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Parcel Tax: New Way for Local Government to Chase Out Families and Jobs

By Stephen Frank on Apr 16, 2015 08:22 pm
There is a new way for local government to add to your tax burden. Pass a parcel tax and use that to pay for cops, libraries, etc. Then the other tax sources can be used for the special interest projects of the elected officials. “In recent years, an increasing number of local governments have responded […]

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In Case You Missed It:

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
Great News for Los Angeles Government—More Tax Hikes Allowed by State
How California’s red tape hurts Google Fiber, future telecommunications upgrades
Confused Guv Brown: Ready to Ditch Environmental Portion of Wasteful Delta Tunnel

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