CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 05/20/2016

LA Times FIRING 200 IT Workers—Outsourcing to INDIA By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 08:07 pm What recovery?  The LA Times is firing 200 IT workers, with good pay and replacing them with folks in India, at meager pay.  Add those 200 to the long lines of workers.  It looks like this means your morning LA Times is actually set up, not in California, but in India. This also means there […] Read More and Comment: LA Times FIRING 200 IT Workers—Outsourcing to INDIA Charlotte Observer: Girls must overcome ‘discomfort’ of seeing ‘male genitalia’ in locker rooms By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 08:05 pm The Charlotte Observer has decided to let it all hang out—allow boys into girls bathrooms—and it looks like they want the boys and men to have urinals—maybe a sex education teacher to explain the biology?   These sick people are comparing the end of privacy for boys and girls to the disgraceful segregation in parts of […] Read More and Comment: Charlotte Observer: Girls must overcome ‘discomfort’ of seeing ‘male genitalia’ in locker rooms LAUSD administrative staff jumps 22 percent even as enrollment drops/9% Fewer Teachers By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 08:03 pm LAUSD is looking toward a massive, multi-billion bond measure, because it does not have enough money.  Yet, this is a district with declining enrollment, 100,000 students on a list to get out of unionized schools and into quality charter schools run by parents and teachers, not the union or ideologues.  In fact, if given the […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD administrative staff jumps 22 percent even as enrollment drops/9% Fewer Teachers Tea Party Report on Recent California Republican Party Convention By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 08:01 pm Since January, 2013, the California Republican Party has lost almost 420,000 voters.  In the previous 13 years, it gained 44,000 voters.  Into that we had a California Republican Party convention three weeks ago. The Tea Party California Caucus, of which I serve on the Board, had an information booth, held two conferences open to all […] Read More and Comment: Tea Party Report on Recent California Republican Party Convention Los Angeles Living? Rent a Van for $300—Park in a Neighborhood of $1 Million Homes! By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 07:59 pm For $650 you can park you van in front of a home for a month in LA—instead of renting an apartment.  In San Fran $1,000 a month gets you a 160 sq. ft. cargo bin—without plumbing.  The high cost of housing, created by government policy. Is forcing folks unwilling to move to Texas or Tennessee […] Read More and Comment: Los Angeles Living? Rent a Van for $300—Park in a Neighborhood of $1 Million Homes! Sacramento Going After “Underground Economy”—if Successful Will Kill California Economy By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 07:57 pm I have a great way to kill off what is left of the California economy.  Millions are surviving by being part of the underground economy—the part of the economy that does consider government a partner in economic activity.  This keeps the illegal aliens and drug dealers going—as well as small businesses, new business and people […] Read More and Comment: Sacramento Going After “Underground Economy”—if Successful Will Kill California Economy L.A. County to Tax Millionaires—Force More Productive People to Leave County/State By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 07:55 pm If you want to kill jobs, kill the people capable of financing the expansion or creation of new business.  Raising taxes on the “rich” so the poor can have housing—which means the cost of housing goes up and fewer can afford housing in Los Angeles.  The real goal of this “millionaires tax” is to have […] Read More and Comment: L.A. County to Tax Millionaires—Force More Productive People to Leave County/State Five of Fifteen Fastest Growing Towns in nation: In Texas—only Two (small ones) in California By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 07:52 pm The fourth fast growing city in the nation is Frisco, Texas (outside of Dallas).  This is the town that the Emeryville, California based Jamba Juice is moving to.  Looking at this list, you will see that five of the fifteen fastest growing cities are in Texas.  Only one, Milipitas with 77,000and Dublin with 57,000 made […] Read More and Comment: Five of Fifteen Fastest Growing Towns in nation: In Texas—only Two (small ones) in California High Speed Rail Caught LYING About Time/Finances to Build Payoff to Special Interest/Unions By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 07:50 pm In the past fifteen years Dan Richards, the High Speed Rail Authority chair and others, have been trying to raise money for a $200 billion high speed train from LA to San Fran from private sources.  At this point, not a dime has been invested.  Instead the Federal and State taxpayers have financed this special […] Read More and Comment: High Speed Rail Caught LYING About Time/Finances to Build Payoff to Special Interest/Unions Sacramento Democrats Demand Citizens NOT Be Protected by Constitution: Easy Prey for Criminals By Stephen Frank on May 19, 2016 07:47 pm Democrats in the Legislature have Sgt. At Arms and other State employees with guns to protect them.  They want you to use 911 and hope a cop shows up before you are robbed, raped or killed.  Remember, when seconds count the police are minutes away, maybe.  And in LA, Oakland and San Fran the police […] Read More and Comment: Sacramento Democrats Demand Citizens NOT Be Protected by Constitution: Easy Prey for Criminals   In Case You Missed It: Is This Why Trump Beats Hillary? ‘Stunning’: EPA had to pay $55K to get child molester to retire You Have to Make $145k a Year to Afford Rent on a Two-Bedroom in LA The Coming Public Pension Apocalypse, and What to Do About It TSA Spending Millions on Advertising, PR, Holograms While Travelers Suffer Guv Brown DEMANDS Obama Create Tuberculosis Epidemic in California