Thursday, November 19, 2015

CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 11/19/2015

State Treasurer: California Debt is $1.5 TRILLION (NOT a Typo)

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:43 pm
Next year corporations and unions are sponsoring a $9 billion school bond. It will cost a total of $17 billion, with interest. Expect another water and park bond—maybe $10 billion worth, of close to $20 billion to pay off. The winners are the crony capitalists and the unions—the people of California are the losers. But […]

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Guv Brown Can’t Stop Illegal Aliens From Killing Us—How Does He Stop ISIS Terrorists Imported by Obama?

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:41 pm
This is confusing. So far 33 governors, all but one Republican, have said they do not want Obama to import terrorists into their State. Yesterday five Syrians were caught in Honduras, with forged passports, making their way to the Mexican/U.S. border—opened by Obama. The Director of the FBI admits there is no way to vet […]

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Buses, Tolls, Tunnels and Technology: Think Tank’s $700 Billion Plan to Target Southern California’s Bottlenecks and Reduce Traffic Congestion

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:38 pm
I know this is the time of year to buy gifts for family and friends. If you have an extra $700 billion, the State of California can use the money to fix its roads, freeways and streets. Of course, once fixed with tax dollars, you will have to use your money to ride many of […]

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Cities and States Try to Crack Down on Distracted Bicycling

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:36 pm
If you drive a car and text, it is illegal and called “distracted” driving. Now that government is promoting biking to work and play, distracted driving is still a problem. “Worried that bicyclists who chat, send messages or listen to music on smartphones are creating a danger, a number of cities have banned cyclists from […]

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Two Years Later, California is Still Cleaning Up Drug Rehab System

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:33 pm
When you have a government program you will have fraud, corruption, mismanagement, incompetence. It is difficult to find any government agency without one or more of these problems. The well intentioned drug rehabilitation program is a great example of the problem. “Rehab Racket found that drug rehab counselors fabricated accounts of therapy sessions and diagnosed teens […]

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Ring: How Project Labor Agreements Elevate Costs to Taxpayers

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:31 pm
Here is how the system works. Unions help the crony capitalists to pass bond measures for construction projects. Note the donors to these bond measures are almost exclusively corporations and unions. So when the bonds pass you will find the donor corporations get the contracts—and the unions get a Project Labor Agreement (PLA). That means […]

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Feel Safe? Sexually Violent Predator Released to Vallejo Motel

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:29 pm
Thanks to government, the courts and the ACLU a violent sexual predator is on the loose in Vallejo. The Corrections Department had no choice but to release this violent, vicious person—so if you live in the Vallejo area beware—government has made sure you have a violent sexual predator in your neighborhood. “The decision by Judge […]

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Riverside County to Forgive Three Cities of Millions in Debt

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:26 pm
If you live in Riverside County, you are obviously paying too much in taxes. The County has decided to GIVE AWAY $25 million of your taxes, to cities that have been mismanaged or incompetent. Instead of fixing the problems, maybe even disincorporating cities that can not pay for themselves, the Board of Supervisors have decided […]

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Why One Affordable Housing Complex in Oakland Has Been Vacant for 10 Years

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:23 pm
California government officials and the Left continually beg and whine for affordable housing. Yet, we know that in time the affordable housing turns into ghettos, slums and crime ridden areas. In Oakland the city has REFUSED to re-open 15 apartments of affordable housing, since 2005. The only way affordable housing” works” is to steal from […]

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Is California Ready For The Grizzly Bear, Again?

By Stephen Frank on Nov 18, 2015 08:16 pm
It has been 91 years since California has had a grizzly bear in the State. While we have plenty of black bears, the grizzly is no longer in our State—but they are in other States. Now a Leftist group wants to reintroduce the grizzly bear to the people of California. Where did the grizzlies live? […]

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