CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 01/11/2017

Cal Teachers in 2021: 19.1% of Pay Goes to Pensions! By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 08:29 pm Over the next four years, the teachers of California will get close to a 20% CUT in their pay.  This will pay for the collapsing CalSTRS pension system—that means, in four years, 38% of a teachers salary will be going to a failed pension plan.  We currently have a teacher shortage.  I wonder how many […] Read More and Comment: Cal Teachers in 2021: 19.1% of Pay Goes to Pensions! State of California December Revenues: 12% LESS Than Predicted By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 08:26 pm In 2016 the State of California collected $10 billion more in revenues than in 2015.  Yet, with all that the State will have a $1.7 billion DEFICIT.  While the rest of the country supported Trump, California went for Clinton.  While the rest of the country is getting a major recovery, thanks to the positive policies […] Read More and Comment: State of California December Revenues: 12% LESS Than Predicted No Joke: AQMD Wants a $15 BILLION Tax for Junk Science By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 08:23 pm For the people of Southern California this may be the most important article you can read this year.  Did you know that an unelected agency, the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board is about to commit YOU to spend $15 billion on junk science, based on radical politics and the elitism of the Left.  […] Read More and Comment: No Joke: AQMD Wants a $15 BILLION Tax for Junk Science Hypocrites: Senate Dems Opposing Trump’s Ed Sec Nom Attended Private Schools By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 08:20 pm The rich Senate Democrats want their children to have the best possible education—so send their children to private schools.  They want you to send your children to LAUSD, where 54% graduate and classrooms are terror factories, holding bullies, druggies and violent students—in the name of “restorative justice”. “Six of the 10 Senate Democrats on the […] Read More and Comment: Hypocrites: Senate Dems Opposing Trump’s Ed Sec Nom Attended Private Schools New Study Finds Two-Thirds of California Teachers Will Be Pension “Losers” By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 08:16 pm By 2021, California teachers will be paying 38% of their salaries to CalSTRS.  But will they get the benefit of that poverty creating wage and payments? “A recent study from the University of Arkansas found that, in the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), nearly two-thirds of entrants into the teaching profession are pension losers. […] Read More and Comment: New Study Finds Two-Thirds of California Teachers Will Be Pension “Losers” Calif. county ended church services, now allows them By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 08:02 pm Government loves to make it difficult for people to use their Constitutional Rights.  In many cases a technicality is created, then used against a person, church or business.  Then you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get back your rights—while the government uses your tax dollars to fight you.  In Oroville, this […] Read More and Comment: Calif. county ended church services, now allows them Gov. Brown Appoints Radical Environmentalists to Public Utilities Commission By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 07:57 pm The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) controls the means, methods and operating procedures for the energy companies in California.  The actions raise the cost of energy to the consumer, limit the ability to provide energy to the businesses of the State.  This is an agency that can create economic growth or recession—that is the power of […] Read More and Comment: Gov. Brown Appoints Radical Environmentalists to Public Utilities Commission Flake Releases Wastebook: PORKémon Go–$5 Billion worth By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 07:55 pm Government by definition is incompetent, mismanaged and/or corrupt.  In the case of spending, it is usually all three.  How else do you explain spending “$1.7 million for a comedy club starring holograms of dead comedians”.  Seriously, no wonder Hollywood loves the Democrats.  My hope is that President Trump appoints one person that has the job […] Read More and Comment: Flake Releases Wastebook: PORKémon Go–$5 Billion worth Sand: Government Unions v. Everyone Else By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 07:53 pm President Roosevelt was very clear—government workers can not be members of a union and work for the government.  In 1937 President Roosevelt wrote, “Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to […] Read More and Comment: Sand: Government Unions v. Everyone Else San Fran to Make Unions Cry: Self Driving Shuttles by 2020 By Stephen Frank on Jan 10, 2017 07:50 pm Imagine shuttle buses running the streets of San Fran—without a union bribe paying driver.  This alone could pay for the system over a few years.  In less than three years they will start with a shuttle to the newly developed Treasure Island.  That is the start. “The San Francisco County Transportation Authority will test self-driving […] Read More and Comment: San Fran to Make Unions Cry: Self Driving Shuttles by 2020   In Case You Missed It: California’s 4.5 Million Trump Voters–Who Will Represent Them? Eber: Taming the Wounded Russian Bear Vladimir Putin San Mateo County finances strong, but concerns ahead: Controller warns of housing market plateau, Affordable Care Act changes Retired City Manager Gets $216,000 Pension in City Where Average Family Makes $32,000 Minimum Wage Increases Kick In; Start Watching for Winners and Losers