O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

9 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

1. Unfunded liabilities will collapse all socialist systems which have more public employees than private sector producers.
   Personally – Boo friggin’ ho for the public union slugs wo will be de-pensioned in the collapse who sucked more blood from the public teat than they contribute to the economy. Boo ho parasites.

2. Sucks to be living in California…unless of course you are a Public Servant…eerily similar to what we see from our Public servants. At least here their pensions are not completely protected…??
   Amazed to see that cities in that state would continue to pay out when the planet around them is literally collapsing…
   Best thing we could do in Canada and Alberta is to ELIMINATE Public Service Unions…before someone allows them more sick days to mourn their aboriginal spirit friends or some other such insanity.
   Nothing but institutionalized extortion IMO

3. Ive said it before. I will say it again. Public Unions are the biggest threat to Individual liberty & democracy that there is.Public Unions have joined hands with Administration. They are one & the same. The people who run the Unions are also those who control the bosses, iof not being the head management.This all started around 2006.I watched it grow myself.

4. hey Moonbeam, ever hear of Hoffa, this shit has been going on for a lot longer than 8 years. The union mafia ties run deep, and organized criminals and politicians run even deeper. Read up about Kennedy, it’s even part of that “story”, sheesh!!!!

5. Every so often, I see a blog comment from a lefty that says Governor Brown’s tax increase fixed their budget problems and they are now in balance. Then I link to this article:
   http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/dan-walters/article2594117.html
   As usual, the lefties are lying through their teeth.
   –They choose, for instance, not to include a $70-plus billion shortfall in the trust fund that pays teachers’ pensions. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System says it needs another $4.5 billion a year to cover the unfunded liability that’s growing by $20 million a day.
   They also choose not to include a $60-plus billion unfunded liability for the health care of retired state employees and there’s really no way for that debt to be shared. It will be paid, sooner or later, from the state budget – and it, too, is growing by the day.
   There’s also an unfunded liability of some dimensions for state workers’ pensions.
   The state Department of Transportation has revealed another mounting debt that’s being ignored – deferred maintenance of the 50,000 lane-miles of state highways. California has some of the nation’s worst pavement conditions as 35 million vehicles run up 300 billion miles of pavement-beating travel each year.
   Add it all up, and California is ignoring at least $10 billion a year in debt payments that current politicians are avoiding but that their successors and taxpayers will have to shoulder at some point.
   A balanced budget? California is like a family that makes minimum credit card bill payments and ignores its mortgage.–

6. As long as the Democrats remain in control the future of California will be Detroit.
   http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
   Still salvageable but slipping fast. Much like Ontario

7. The avarice of public sector workers is the same everywhere. Our city elections are on Saturday and during the last ‘all candidates meeting’ there were a bunch of very beefy firefighters, all wearing their bright yellow IAFF t-shirts while handing out handbills supporting ‘their’ councillors – one a former president of the union local and the other a longstanding NDP member whose NDP husband is a school trustee.
   A first day on the job firefighter makes $80K/yr plus generous benefits. Our small city firefighter has parity with Vancouver firefighters, despite the much lower cost of living here and the fact we only had four major fires for all of last year.
   They’re demanding 4 person call-outs so that every call for chest pains is serviced by a full truck, four firemen plus an ambulance with two paramedics. Never mind that our taxes have gone up far in excess of inflation or population growth for each of the last twenty years – compounding, of course.
   Blood suckers.

8. government can pass all the laws they about having to pay pensions. when a city, town or state government is broke guess what? when there is no money there are no pensions. only a fool would think they can get something from someone when they do not have it.

9. Ontario voters think they can get something from a government that doesn’t have it….it’s the Liberal way, promise then blame someone else when they can’t deliver.
   The unions will find out that out as well, no jobs, no big wages when the government they supported chases out industry and small businesses have to close down or go bankrupt.Green energy is a flop out of the gate, it’s taking the province farther into the red.