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Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
BTW-who remembers the bogus trumped up traffic ticket I got back in January??? Went to court today, blew the dirty cop out of the water!!!! KA-CHING! "Filed Charges" "VC 5201G I Obstruct reading of license plate by remote sensing device 01/--/2011 NOT GUILTY ACQUITTED" <--<--<-- that was copied right off the court docket-they use CAPS!! BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was a so called "correctable violation", a fix it ticket and once signed off would have been just $25, but the dirtbag that wrote the tickect committed perjury, (my license plate was not obstrcuted and he did not have a "remote" electronic sensor that reads licens plates which is what the code section stated). So I had to fork over $200 bail to set the case for trial. Since I won I get that all back, but I didn't have the money for 2 months. Now it is pay back time!— April 28, 2011 2:58 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
or the scrub who ruled on Prop 8 =================== Rail, the prop 8 ruling was legit. Prop 8 was a clear violation of the equal protection clause. Nothing crooked about it. The only question was if the federal court would give equal protection rights based on sexual orientation-which is not one of the so called "protected classes" (like race, ethinicty, alinage, gender), which if it did (and should have) would move the "scrutiny level" to a point that could not be overcome. It was a good call by a straigh shooting judge. DOJ has good people and bad. I willl say I have had some MAJOR run in's with the local federal court ad am very disappointed in them and the 9th Circuit, especially the 9th Circuit. The 9th judges dont really care for me.— April 28, 2011 2:51 p.m.
The Federal Reserve's Money Orgy
Lehman would not hhave failed if they had received what Goldman Sachs and merrill lynch did, a bailout. Both Merrill and Goldman (backdoor bailout out thru AIG) would have folded without a bailout-so why didn't Lehman get one?? I have no idea, but NONE OF THEM SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN BAILED OUT. They all should have been allowed to go through BK. We didn't need to bail them out, the TARP bailout did NOT do what Bush claimed it would do, and the idiots that ran the entire country into the ground received BONUSES for running the country into the ground. That is as upside down as this country can get. It was without a doubt the saddest days our country has ever seen from an economic, moral and ethical stand point.— April 28, 2011 7:12 a.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
Them two too, but two wrongs don't make a right.— April 27, 2011 9:21 p.m.
The Federal Reserve's Money Orgy
Good column. The Fed is controlled by former Goldman Sachs yahoo's, Goldman Sachs yahoo'sactually are in every major position in gov. They are destroying the country. If not for the backdoor BAILOUT of Goldman they would have went BK with lehman Bros.— April 27, 2011 7:36 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
Deferring payment of benefits is the same as borrowing. The City can't borrow legally without a vote. ============= That was the essence of the Orange County lawsuit that was just turned down by the CA Supreme Court. The CA Supreme Court did a disservice to everyone in this state, of a magnitude that is beyond comprehension by not taking the case.— April 27, 2011 7:06 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
Yes your scenario is partially true. But first, when did government employees stop paying taxes like everyone else? Plenty of tax comes out of my check. ================ You take out 20 times more from taxpayers than what you pay in, in your taxes.— April 27, 2011 7:02 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
I think teachers are underpaid, ============= Not me, they are grossly over paid in most cases IMO. I worked right there in the system and know it first hand.— April 27, 2011 6:59 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
For example, an employee could retire at age 55 and die in a car accident later that same year. The actuarial assumption the retirement would cost the retirement system one million dollar would be 100% wrong. ========================= #1- If the public employee died at age 55 then their spouse or beneficiary would get it, so it would not end. #2- If the person lived to 110 it would cost 3 times what the actuarial assumption estimated. #3- On a whole the experts know EXACTLY what the average mortality rates are, and I posted above what they are for public safety-down to the month. So once again, actuarial assumptions are indeed VERY ACCURATE and there is STILL no excuse for anyone to receive a pension in "retirement" for more years than when they were actually working. Public pensions (with 30 years of service credit or more and retired in the last 3 years) pay out 3 times the amount of the AVERAGE salary for CA private sector employees CURRENTLY WORKING. They are going to end, Mr. Math is going to see to that. It is not a matter of if, just a matter of when. Tell Jerry Brown to put the pension taxes on the ballot-and right next to them put pension cuts and salry cuts, and as JB says LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE. You won't see that on the ballot.— April 27, 2011 6:56 p.m.
Judge Grants Injunction to End NFL Lockout. Victory for Players
The OWNERS are wrecking all of professional sports. The Green Bay Packers do not have the community problems all the other teams have, and they don't for a reason, the team is owned by the local community and have sold out every home game for 30+ years, in the worst climate and most antiquated stadium in Pro Sports. So don't try to lay that BS on me that new state of the art stadiums, built for mega corps and millionaires, are need to "stay competitive". Baloney.— April 27, 2011 6:41 p.m.