Posted on 12/12/2012 9:37:46 PM PST by blam
“I thought I’d died and gone to Hell. But I was only in El Segundo.”
Little Bill
I lived in the Castaic area for a couple of years. I remember driving into the mountains during the “winter” and seeing many pickups loaded with or being loaded with snow to take to the valley to make snowmen - enjoying the winter without having to live through it! Too bad the liberals are in charge.
What makes you think the people that ruined California are from California?
We need to vote them out.....just need more conservatives.
yitbos
Government employees are by definition tax takers.
Yep.
Government poduces nothing. That is why all government employees are part of the takers
California Dads failed to assert their balls, which turned the culture effeminate.
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) thought she’d turn Michigan into a California-like state and look where she ended up- At UC Berkely and MSNBC.
My guess is one of those surveys counts pot farming and one doesn't.
I prefer Calhoun's name for them: tax eaters.
Ducks let the weather decide where they live; human beings turn up the heat or put on a jacket.
I might get banned but I believe Fr should move to AZ, sure it will cost money, all Jim has to do is just ask.
California School District Owes $1 Billion On $100 Million Loan
npr ^ | Dec 7, 2012 | Richard Gonzales / FR Posted by Biser
More than 200 school districts across California are taking a second look at the high price of the debt they've taken on using risky financial arrangements. Collectively, the districts have borrowed billions in loans that defer payments for years — leaving many districts owing far more than they borrowed. (Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
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In 2010, officials at the West Contra Costa School District, just east of San Francisco, were in a bind. The district needed $2.5 million to help secure a federally subsidized $25 million loan to build a badly needed elementary school. Charles Ramsey, president of the school board, says he needed that $2.5 million upfront, but the district didn't have it. Why would you leave $25 million on the table? You would never leave $25 million on the table.
- Charles Ramsey, school board president, West Contra Costa School District. “We'd be foolish not to take advantage of getting $25 million” when the district had to spend just $2.5 million to get it, Ramsey says. “The only way we could do it was with a [capital appreciation bond].”
Those bonds, known as CABs, are unlike typical bonds, where a school district is required to make immediate and regular payments. Instead, CABs allow districts to defer payments well into the future — by which time lots of interest has accrued.In the West Contra Costa Schools’ case, that $2.5 million bond will cost the district a whopping $34 million to repay.”
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The $822,000-per-Year Bureaucrat and the Death of California
Townhall.com | Daniel J. Mitchell / Posted by Kaslin
Outrageous examples of overpaid bureaucrats:The chief bureaucrat of a low-income California city getting almost $800,000 per year. Cops in Oakland getting average compensation of $188,000. California taxpayers being forced to pay a fired bureaucrat $550,000 for unused vacation time.
(ELSEWHERE A school superintendent in New York raking in more than $500 thousand annual compensation. A Philadelphia bureaucrat, after working only 2-1/2 years, gets a guaranteed annual pension of $50,000 per year. A New York school bureaucrat w/ a $225,000 salary and $300,000 pension simultaneously. A New Jersey Turnpike employee raking in an annual $320,000.)
THERE'S MORE California is in a race with Illinois to see which state can become the Greece of America. The Golden State has a new über-bureaucrat....jaw-dropping details from a Bloomberg report.....More at townhall.com
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A Labyrinth of Govt Fraud----stories like this mean astonishingly easy, massive govt fraud.
REFERENCE Govt officials find 2nd off-the-books bank account / LAT / February 17, 2011
Montebello, Cali govt officials said they discovered yet a.n.o.t.h.e.r secret off-the-books bank account that once contained nearly $1 million in city govt funds. Officials do not know why the secret account was created, why it was never recorded on the city's general ledger or what happened to the govt money that was transferred out. One signator on the secret account was former City Manager Richard Torres. City policy generally requires the treasurer to be a signator, not the city manager. The bank holding the secret account refused to disclose to the city who the other two signators are.
Revelations about a secret Union Bank account follow news of an off-the-books account at Banco Popular discovered earlier....That account contained about $240,000 govt monies; officials also discovered records that indicated tens of thousands of govt dollars had been transferred out. They do not know to whom or why.
City govt's official banker is Bank of the West. Officials have asked for bank statements and records and are hoping to reconstruct what happened. They have also queried every member of the govt finance department to ask if they know of any other off-the-books accounts. The Union Bank account came to light when an employee
spontaneously alerted the finance director. Officials found out about the Banco Popular account when the bank contacted city govt because the account had been dormant for a while.
The news about the secret accounts comes as Montebello struggles to close a deficit that could force officials to make deep service cuts and lay off employees. Criminal probes have also begun in San Bernardino agencies for possible govt fraud.
Kind of like “Pacific Heights” writ large. A charming place you can’t bear to part with, but you find yourself sharing it with a psycho monster.
In this case a few million psycho monsters.
Right flight is still just a trickle. And flight won’t fix the problem anyway.
Someday soon, this will be America.
Just curious. What is it about that state that makes you want to put with all the crap thrown at you by its government? No scenery or climate, in MYHO, are worth all the financial costs and restrictions on personal liberty.
Or is it an ingrained masochism that guides your life?
Arizona has 99% of the weather benefits of California with only a few of the problems on that long list. It’s a little warm in July, true, but San Diego is a fairly short drive if one needs a break. Besides, extreme heat does more to eliminate the homeless from city streets than all the government programs ever devised. :)
DOH! I thought it was a comparison to the other 55 states...
A relative of mine and his friends who live in So CA are talking get-the-hell-out and looking at TX...
Big mistake...unless there’s a lock down at the border, TX will be CA in a few years...a hot, humid CA.
I am currently living in the reddest state in the US. All my representatives are conservative. I’d go back to California’s breathtaking vistas in a heartbeat. There’s more to life than politics. As for energy costs—our electricity and gas bills have been as high as in California. And this is supposed to be an energy producing state!
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