CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 04/21/2016 GOV BROWN RELEASES LIFERS!

Guv Brown Parole Board has RELEASED 1923 Prisoners with LIFE Sentences (Not a Typo) By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:24 pm Jerry Brown is the best friend of a murderer, next to the ACLU or California AG Harris.  So far, he has released 1923 killers, with Life sentences.  But, to make it look good the high profile killers, like the Manson clan, they usually stay in prison—so it looks good.  The run of the mill killer […] Read More and Comment: Guv Brown Parole Board has RELEASED 1923 Prisoners with LIFE Sentences (Not a Typo) The SoCal and Texas Real Estate Connection: Southern California middle class disappearing into Texas thanks to high real estate prices. By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:21 pm The Texas Chamber of Commerce is doing very well, under the radar.  The movement of California firms and families to the Free State of Texas could not be because of the high taxes, high energy and water costs, government control of the workplace from conditions on the job to pay, this has to be the […] Read More and Comment: The SoCal and Texas Real Estate Connection: Southern California middle class disappearing into Texas thanks to high real estate prices. California’s Pension Hubris By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:20 pm Would you invest in a financial services firm that has over $600 billion in unfunded liabilities?  Think you would put in a firm that if it were a private company would have been closed a long time ago for fraud, corruption and lying to the public about its return on investments?  While telling the Legislature […] Read More and Comment: California’s Pension Hubris More Customers Dumped From Covered California Without Notice By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:18 pm Barack Obama has bankrupted insurance companies and families, caused a rise in the cost of health care, while lowering the quality.  California is fast becoming a Third World State.  Our government agencies are segregated-by language—though English is the official language of the State, under Arnold and Jerry our agencies talk dozens of languages and spend […] Read More and Comment: More Customers Dumped From Covered California Without Notice What Recovery? Housing Sales/Permits Down Dramatically By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:16 pm At the same time that Intel announces it is firing 12,000 people the housing market in America is starting to have the bubble burst.  This feels like 2007 again.  What do you think? “Data on the housing sector are slowing going into the key spring season. Housing starts fell a very sharp 8.8 percent in […] Read More and Comment: What Recovery? Housing Sales/Permits Down Dramatically UC Berkeley Forced to Cut 500 Jobs After $15 Minimum Wage Hike By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:14 pm Did you know that UC Berkeley has a $150 million deficit—and growing?  The media does not mention it, in fact, it does not tell about the financial condition of our government facilities.  While they are teaching bigotry, hatred, intolerance, promoting drugs and use of facilities for two-bit dictators, real education is being harmed.  Add to […] Read More and Comment: UC Berkeley Forced to Cut 500 Jobs After $15 Minimum Wage Hike Corporations Are Defaulting On Their Debts Like It’s 2008 All Over Again By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:12 pm A couple of days ago Intel announced it was cutting back employment by 12,000.  These are not taco shell filling jobs, these are high paying tech jobs.  Thanks to high taxes, bad regulations, bad schools and the high cost of housing, firms are leaving the State or cutting back on employment—the minimum wage craziness is […] Read More and Comment: Corporations Are Defaulting On Their Debts Like It’s 2008 All Over Again CCSF Faculty Union Clears Final Hurdle for One-Day Strike By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:09 pm Great news for Starbucks near the City College of San Fran (Where OJ went to school)  dozens of teachers will be picketing instead of being in the classroom—they will need an expensive pick me up, so expect a lot of Latte’s and espresso’s to be sold that day.  The education the students and taxpayers are […] Read More and Comment: CCSF Faculty Union Clears Final Hurdle for One-Day Strike LA city controller recommends shifting 458 LAPD jobs to civilians By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:07 pm The city of Fresno has a total of 707 police officers.  The city of Los Angeles has 458 police officers doing administrative desk work that could be done by civilians—at a cost savings of approximately $44,000 EACH.  That is money wasted; training wasted yet the city has a deficit in the hundreds of millions, murder […] Read More and Comment: LA city controller recommends shifting 458 LAPD jobs to civilians Majority Party Chooses Union Labor Over Innovation By Stephen Frank on Apr 20, 2016 08:00 pm When it comes to workers vs. unions, power vs. jobs, freedom vs. the Nanny State, the Democrats are not moderates—they go whole hog on the side of unions and government control.  The taxpayers, the families of California are paying for the Democrats using your tax dollars as payoffs to unions to get them to buy […] Read More and Comment: Majority Party Chooses Union Labor Over Innovation   In Case You Missed It: San Fran Creates Bike Lanes/Bus Lanes—Cars Backed Up– Safety Issues Created by Government San Fran Spends $80-100,000 Promoting Brain Frying in Public Park LAUSD: 40% of Common Core Grades Based on “Socio-emotional/cultural- climate” NOT GRADES or Learning UCLA Prof Unravels Diversity Sham SF’s 37,000 Lyft and Uber Drivers Will Be Ordered To Get Business Licenses—City Needs the Revenue