CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 08/08/2016

Why California is Considered a CRAZY State: San Diego Study Shows How Music Can Affect Public Perception Of Sharks By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:28 pm If you go anywhere in the country, real people think of California as the land of Leftist politics, sensitive wimps, totalitarians and a government filled with bigots.  They think we all smoke pot and that our president is Matt Damon.  When a legitimate institution spends donated and government grant money, it must be a serious […] Read More and Comment: Why California is Considered a CRAZY State: San Diego Study Shows How Music Can Affect Public Perception Of Sharks The U.S. Has Lost 195,000 Good Paying Energy Industry Jobs By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:24 pm Want a job filling taco shells?  Lots of them around.  Want a job paying $100,000 in the energy industry—you just lost 195,000 of those jobs in the oil industry.  Plus close to 100,000 jobs in the coal industry and around 15,000 jobs in the potential of the nuclear industry—but the taco shells still need filling. […] Read More and Comment: The U.S. Has Lost 195,000 Good Paying Energy Industry Jobs Cut Welfare by Up To 80%: Include Work Requirement By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:22 pm Want to put people to work, lower the poverty rate and the cost of welfare?  Just include work are as requirement for welfare. “The decline in food stamp rolls between March and April of this year follows the re-establishment of work requirements in a number of states. On Jan. 1, 22 states had to reinstate the […] Read More and Comment: Cut Welfare by Up To 80%: Include Work Requirement Legacy program aims to keep longtime SF businesses thriving By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:20 pm Great news for the poor and middle class in San Fran.  The City has decided to use your tax dollars to keep businesses open, if they had been opened more than thirty years.  So, you pay taxes, so your competition can get grants and subsidies from the City, to be in competition with you.  Sounds […] Read More and Comment: Legacy program aims to keep longtime SF businesses thriving The Town that Privatized Everything By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:18 pm Sandy Springs, Georgia is a town of just under 100,000.  Instead of over 800 city employees—they have 471.  That is because the city outsources many assignments, projects and departments.  The city is well run, the books are really balanced—not just government accounting practices.  Your city manager should be looking at this city for examples of […] Read More and Comment: The Town that Privatized Everything Jerry Brown is Trying to Quash the People’s Ability to Fight Mega-Developers … For Him, It’s Personal! By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:16 pm You would think Jerry Brown, for all of his confusion, would be fighting for CEQA, an environmental program dedicated to having government and special interests control your property, profits and ownership.  While he is bad on many issues, he is very responsible on this—unlike the backer of the corrupt Hillary Clinton, Meg Whitman, Brown is […] Read More and Comment: Jerry Brown is Trying to Quash the People’s Ability to Fight Mega-Developers … For Him, It’s Personal! Reserve police officers petition the state to carry assault rifles By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:14 pm Should a police officer—whether a full time cop or a part time cop, be allowed to use the best possible weapons to defend themselves and the public?  Seriously how do terrorists and cartels gangsters know if the officer in blue is a reserve officer, not a regular officer?  They are shot at just the same. […] Read More and Comment: Reserve police officers petition the state to carry assault rifles Government Policies/Regulations Add $30 Million to San Diego Project—66% INCREASE By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:12 pm Government, by definition is corrupt, incompetent and/or mismanaged.   In the case of San Diego it is obvious they are incompetent and mismanaged—an audit is need to see how corrupt they are.  Imagine proposing and approving a $45 million—that so far costs $75 million—and climbing.  That is a 66% increase on the cost.  Sounds like fraud […] Read More and Comment: Government Policies/Regulations Add $30 Million to San Diego Project—66% INCREASE Feds: ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Flags May Be Racist, Incur Fines By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:10 pm A flag that goes back to the American Revolution is now being questioned as being “racist”.  To the Democrats, anything pro-American must be racist, since American, to them is a racist nation. “A federal agency is worried an iconic symbol of freedom dating back to the Revolutionary War might be racist. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which decides […] Read More and Comment: Feds: ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Flags May Be Racist, Incur Fines WESTERN WATER: Thirsty Westlands faces escalating woes By Stephen Frank on Aug 07, 2016 07:07 pm While Jerry Brown is giggling about the California economic “recovery”, he has set into motion the destruction of the agriculture industry in the State.  His lack of a water policy has given us what my good friend Madera Supervisor Rick Farinelli calls the “Brown Drought”.  The Brown water policy is fines and threat, misuse of […] Read More and Comment: WESTERN WATER: Thirsty Westlands faces escalating woes   In Case You Missed It: NAACP Supports Education Inequality in People of Color in LAUSD Caldwell: Editorials : Guest Opinion: The uncivilized rights movement California Pushes Ahead on Twin Water Tunnels Under Estuary Economic Illiterates Think TAKING $79 Billion From People “Puts” $$ Into Economy. 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