CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 03/24/2016 BROWN WANTS MORE MONEY TO WASTE!

Guv Brown Wants $36 Billion in NEW Taxes—Wants HIGHER Gas Prices for Consumers By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:49 pm A few years ago, with the help of GOP legislators, Guv Brown got a $21 billion extension of vehicle taxes ($3 billion a year for seven years)—not a typo. A few days ago, again with GOP legislative leaders’ votes, passed a $1.7 billion tax on your health insurance (even though $170 million of the new […] Read More and Comment: Guv Brown Wants $36 Billion in NEW Taxes—Wants HIGHER Gas Prices for Consumers Forget Being An American: USDA Spends $642,776 to Turn College Students Into ‘Internationally Minded Citizens’ By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:37 pm Great news—Obama is teaching your children and our students that they should think about the needs of the world, not their own country. Instead of providing the worlds best economy, products and services, along with protecting freedom, Barack in spending your tax dollars to get students to believe the rest of the world is better […] Read More and Comment: Forget Being An American: USDA Spends $642,776 to Turn College Students Into ‘Internationally Minded Citizens’ What Recovery? L.A. County Debt Goes From $8.2 Billion to $16.8 in TWO YEARS By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:33 pm Government is in trouble—that means you, your family and your job is in trouble. All you need to know: “Los Angeles County Went from <$8.2 billion> net deficit FY 2013/14 (link is external) to <$16.8 billion> net deficit FY 2014/15 (link is external) Santa Clara County Went from <$752 million> net deficit FY 2013/14 (link is […] Read More and Comment: What Recovery? L.A. County Debt Goes From $8.2 Billion to $16.8 in TWO YEARS Anaheim Tennis Center Project Moves Forward Despite Mayor’s Disapproval By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:30 pm Do you think the people of Anaheim, needing cops, better schools, potholes filled, really want to give money to a private corporation to renovate a tennis club—when all the profits go to the private party and all the risk goes to the taxpayers? Maybe a bowling alley would be cheaper to renovate? “The City Council […] Read More and Comment: Anaheim Tennis Center Project Moves Forward Despite Mayor’s Disapproval Assemblyman Harper Announces Bill to Give Voters a Voice on Transportation Tax Increases By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:28 pm A few years ago, legislative GOP leaders gave the Democrats the votes needed to give consumers a $21 billion (over seven years) tax increase. Earlier this week, the legislative GOP leadership gave the Democrats a vote to raise $1.7billion in taxes on your health insurance. Now the Governor is looking at a $36 billion tax […] Read More and Comment: Assemblyman Harper Announces Bill to Give Voters a Voice on Transportation Tax Increases Cong. LaMalfa: Obama Sets Up PHONY Corporation/Holds Secret Meetings to Demolish Needed Dam By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:24 pm Does anyone believe the law breaking President, Obama, would not stoop to creating phony corporations, and abuse the law, just to create a water shortage in the West. This is the same man that is sending terrorists back to the battlefield, to kill Christians. He lied about ObamaCare, costing people money and lives—so lying to […] Read More and Comment: Cong. LaMalfa: Obama Sets Up PHONY Corporation/Holds Secret Meetings to Demolish Needed Dam Stanford Study: Taking Non-Productive Ethnic Studies” Keeps Failed Students in School—No Jobs By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:21 pm Stanford University has done a study that shows how you make a young person a double failure. First, you have a student that is failing school, has no interest in uni9onized government education, and believes they are wasting their time sitting in a class. Then the “professionals” take the kid and put them into classes […] Read More and Comment: Stanford Study: Taking Non-Productive Ethnic Studies” Keeps Failed Students in School—No Jobs Home Flipping Nearing Bubble Level in San Diego, Other Cities By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:14 pm In 2007-8 San Diego and the rest of the country was in the midst of a housing boom—high prices, fast sales, big money. In the end the Federal taxpayer lost hundreds of billions, hundreds of thousands of family homes lost, and the nation has since doubled its national debt. A total disaster. Now the symptoms […] Read More and Comment: Home Flipping Nearing Bubble Level in San Diego, Other Cities An Oakland Diaspora: What Drives Longtime Residents to Leave? By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:11 pm Oakland is trying very hard to end its well earned reputation as the “murder capitol of California” and become the East bay version of the gentrified San Fran .—no poor, no middle class and very expensive housing, with no room for affordable housing. This is a town that has dreams of being the Beverly Hills […] Read More and Comment: An Oakland Diaspora: What Drives Longtime Residents to Leave? Several Years and $1 Billion Later, San Diego Schools Are Actually in Worse Shape By Stephen Frank on Mar 03, 2016 08:08 pm If you believe educrats, just give them all your money and the schools will be great—as if the curriculum and the union ownership of schools. Will money protect the students from “Restorative Justice” which puts bullies, goons, druggies, disruptors and those with weapons back in the classroom? Does fear create better education? “After a tax […] Read More and Comment: Several Years and $1 Billion Later, San Diego Schools Are Actually in Worse Shape   In Case You Missed It: San Fran to RAISE Cost of Housing for Poor and Middle Class Via Ballot Measure Santa Barbara Prepares For Tax Initiative to Fund Streets Maintenance Sand: AB 2754 by Assemblywoman Grove: Allows Teachers to Join or Not Join Union Proposed “Business Tax” In Santa Clara County to “Fund” Transportation—Texas Job Expansion? Time Running Out for California’s Voting Machines