Comments on: Rhetoric-rich reactions to new state budget deal

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:30:34 +0000

The special interests, especially the current sweetheart deals for public employee unions, have won yet again. The new state budget is a failure because it failed to address the exorbitant pensions promised to state workers, especially fire, police and prison guards. These are not exploited working class people who are barely surviving. Many rank-and-file CHP officers will receive more than $100k a year for the rest of their lives, thanks to the fiscally stupid 3% at 50 pension system that Gov. Gray Davis and the Democratic Legislature (led by tax-and-spend fools like Sen. John Burton) enacted as S.B. 400 in 1999. Tax extensions/increases are unnecessary today because things are not as dire in the budget as most Democrats would have us believe. If the budget really were tight, you would see the teachers unions demand that public safety pensions be reformed, etc. Until this fat is cut from the budget and until the special interest groups turn on each other, Californians would be stupid to allow the Legislature to raise their taxes again. The clowns in Sacramento want more “revenue” in order to generate more “slop” to feed the special interest pigs at the trough. It’s easier than telling the pigs that they need to dine less extravagantly.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:19:56 +0000

When is a tax increase not a tax increase? When it’s an extension of a “temporary” tax increase according to the dimmiecrats.

Now that the “temporary” tax increases will be allowed to lapse, watch Jerry Brown and the totally incompetent CA leg. take credit for cutting taxes!

By: Elwood

Elwood — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:15:36 +0000

Who could have guessed that the new budget would be written by an Italian woman?

Thank you, Rosy Scenario!

By: Elwood

Elwood — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:22:11 +0000

The rosy scenario budget:

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/28/3731781/dan-walters-will-democrats-rosy.html

By: Milan Moravec

Milan Moravec — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:10:56 +0000

University of California President, UCOP, Chancellor, Vice Chancellor Faculty wage concessions help Californians through recession. Until action is applied by the University of California (UC) Board of Regents to chancellors, like Birgeneau, UC shouldn’t come to the Governor or public for support for any tax increase.

(The author has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at UC Berkeley (Cal) where he observed the culture & way senior management work)

Cal. Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not overseer of his own fiefdom (these are not isolated examples): recruits (uses California tax $) out of state $50,000 tuition students that displace qualified Californians from public university education; spends $7,000,000 + for consultants to do his & many vice chancellors jobs (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same 0 cost); pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; in procuring a $3,000,000 consulting firm he failed to receive proposals from other firms; Latino enrollment drops while out of state jumps 2010; tuition to Return on Investment drops below top 10; Breslauer all employees meeting – only 50 attend; visits to Cal down 20%; NCAA places basketball program on probation, absence institutional control.

It’s all shameful. There is no justification for such practices by a steward of the public trust. Absolutely none.

Birgeneau’s practices will continue indefinitely. Governor Brown, UC Board of Regents Chair Lansing, President Yudof must do a better job of vigorously enforcing oversight than has been done in the past over Chancellors like Birgeneau who use the campus as their fiefdom.