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DWP employees enjoying the high life on taxpayer money?
CBS news recently released the results of an undercover investigation on Department of Water and Power government employees which showed government employees drinking on the job, drinking and driving...
View ArticleLeague of CA Cities releases city manager pay study
The League of California Cities, an association of cities in the Golden State that essentially acts as an advocacy, legal and lobbying arm for member cities, has released its own survey of city...
View ArticlePublic pensions will crush California, unless…
With perhaps more than half a trillion dollars already “guaranteed” to government workers and with no way to pay for it, public employee pensions pose the greatest threat of fiscal calamity. These...
View ArticleA union problem or a public worker union problem?
The annual budgets that most states and the federal government are having so much trouble balancing are a drop in the bucket compared to the problems posed by unfunded long-term debts, especially...
View ArticleWhat’s not to like about these government employees? 200 more groups...
About the only thing that makes those living off the government (which is to say, off of your money) more greedy than they already are is to announce that you’re considering cutting back what they...
View ArticleInterest-free loans to government workers on your dime
It appears that state agencies loaned government employees millions of dollars without getting repaid, according to the state controller’s office. Millions in interest-free salary and travel advances...
View ArticleUnion bosses still denying pension crisis
Public union leaders have consistently denied there is a problem with the current government employee pension system. They defend the high benefit levels and consistently argue that pension funds are...
View ArticleCalifornia’s drunken-sailor budget syndrome
Would you trust a drunken sailor with your money? Imagine you’re irresponsible. Now imagine you’re the people in charge of California’s government budget. But I repeat myself. Imagine you have run up...
View ArticleYou have to be employed by the government to think a strike makes sense
H. LORREN AU JR., THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER How many private sector workers have gone on strike since the economy went into its tailspin four years ago? Right, we can’t think of any either. But then...
View ArticleHow did California get this way? Ready for more of the same?
Victor Davis Hanson, whose columns can be read in the Register, paints a fascinatingly grim picture of California and the nation generally. He draws parallels to the 1981 post-apocalyptic movie “The...
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