CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 05/27/2016

Santa Maria Times cuts Monday newspaper–symbolic of status of newspapers By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 08:05 pm The Madera Tribune used to print six days a week, it is now down to two days a week.  The LA Times has lost more than half its circulation in the past ten years and is no longer looked upon as a trusted and credible source of information.  From the LA Daily News to the […] Read More and Comment: Santa Maria Times cuts Monday newspaper–symbolic of status of newspapers Tax Orgy Hits San Jose! Use Public Safety as Scam to Fleece Public By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:59 pm Government uses children, seniors, the poor and jobs as an excuse to scam voters to approve tax increases.  Then when you approve the higher taxes, or the sale of bonds, government will spend the money as they want—not as they told us.  A few years ago Los Angeles had a one billion tax increase, to […] Read More and Comment: Tax Orgy Hits San Jose! Use Public Safety as Scam to Fleece Public Congrats, Oakland NOT Most Dangerous City in State—Stockton and San Bernardino Are By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:57 pm Great news for the people of Oakland…they are safer than the people of Stockton and San Bernardino, which are according to statistics from the FBI, the most dangerous cities in the nation.  Thank you Arnold and Jerry for releasing 50,000 vicious criminals from prison, thanks to the voters for passing Prop. 47 which allows you […] Read More and Comment: Congrats, Oakland NOT Most Dangerous City in State—Stockton and San Bernardino Are Guv Brown to CONTROL Housing Development in YOUR Town—No Need for City Council By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:55 pm If there is a new housing project in your city and you want the government to hear your views, under current laws, you go to city hall, in your town.  Under the new rules, set by Guv Brown, you will have to go to Sacramento and talk to the governors office!  Yup, he will decide […] Read More and Comment: Guv Brown to CONTROL Housing Development in YOUR Town—No Need for City Council Public Radio Textbook Example of Biased Reporting protecting Unions/Against Students By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:53 pm Read this article carefully.  Note this public radio article gives great detail about charter school advocates spending money on political candidates.  Not a single word that every dime spent is voluntary—no bribes, no extortion, people voluntarily spending the money.  Yet, the story does not mention the millions of dollars unions spend on candidates, every dime […] Read More and Comment: Public Radio Textbook Example of Biased Reporting protecting Unions/Against Students Bullet train bad news: Funding fails–GREAT News for Taxpayers By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:50 pm Great news for the taxpayers of California.  Bad news for the vendors that signed billion agreements with a government agency that they knew had NO money to pay their bills.  N ow the $150 million Guv Brown was going to give the largest scam in the history of California, the High Speed Rail Authority, , […] Read More and Comment: Bullet train bad news: Funding fails–GREAT News for Taxpayers Obama Lied and People Will Die: Obamacare Deductibles So High, No One Gets to Use the Insurance By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:47 pm Thanks to Barack Obama, new plans under the Affordable Care Act will have deductibles of over $6800-an amount most will not reach.  So, they will spend high premiums, get no insurance and spend up to $6800 before the insurance comes in.  Worse, few doctors or hospitals want to participate—only those not good enough to get […] Read More and Comment: Obama Lied and People Will Die: Obamacare Deductibles So High, No One Gets to Use the Insurance Electric carmaker could build California’s first new auto factory in years By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:45 pm While Kentucky is beating California in the creation of new manufacturing jobs, some wild and crazy business people, hoping to lose money, are developing a potential auto building factory in Vallejo—a previously bankrupt city.  High taxes, the most expensive regulations in the nations, unions owning the State, environmental rules to add thousands of dollars to […] Read More and Comment: Electric carmaker could build California’s first new auto factory in years CalPERS Issues “Jay Leno” Joke Press Release—Claiming “Sustainability” By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:42 pm This has to be a joke—a very bad joke.  An organization that has an unfunded liability of just under $700 billion and no way to pay it, is given a sustainability award?  Every economist on the subject has declared CalPERS financially unsustainable.  Plus, the board of the organization has decided to make politically correct investments, […] Read More and Comment: CalPERS Issues “Jay Leno” Joke Press Release—Claiming “Sustainability” Air District cuts a deal on lawn mowers –using tax $$ By Stephen Frank on May 26, 2016 07:39 pm I bet you thought that your tax dollars went for cops, road repairs and schools.  The money also goes to pay for a high tech lawn mower for your neighbor.  The bigger question is, has someone followed the money trail?  Does it lead back to the retailers that sell the machines or the manufacturers that […] Read More and Comment: Air District cuts a deal on lawn mowers –using tax $$   In Case You Missed It: Veterans In Bay Area To Get Health Care at Drug Store–NOT the VA–Better Care At S.F.’s Elite Lowell High School, Students Want Education–Not Racist ideology DEAR DEMOCRATS: America Ain’t Denmark Recent marijuana ordinances driving up commercial real estate prices in Monterey County CSU board unanimously approves new faculty contract with 10% pay raise–NO Source of Funds to Pay