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Steve Greenhut believes, as I do, that the only way to save California is to allow it to go down the toilet and completely collapse.
"It’s not just the money. How do you think the inmates in California’s prisons are getting cell phones and other contraband? Here’s the Times again: “Prison employees, roughly half of whom are unionized guards, are the main source of smuggled phones that inmates use to run drugs and other crimes, according to legislative analysts who examined the problem last year.”
Yet people want solutions. Well, the technical solutions are simple. The state needs to slash the size of government, slash the number of government employees, contract out legitimate services and remind the public that the government is not responsible for taking care of them. State officials need to lower tax rates and reduce regulations, so that the private sector will begin generating new jobs and revenue here rather than in less-regulated locales. Regarding pensions and retiree health care, the state needs to provide benefits to its employees that are in line with those received in the private sector. The issue is political, and there is zero political will in the Capitol to even modestly reform these benefits for new hires.
An Assembly official recently told me about a proposal to reduce the pensions of state employees who have been convicted of serious crimes, but the unions pulled out the stops, and this bill died. If the Legislature can’t reduce the pensions of criminals, what’s the chance of broader reform?"
In Wisconsin, we see Democrat Senators running like crooks away from the Capitol, to protect the unions. Like thieves in the night they will be caught, returned to the Capitol and forced to obey their oath of office--and obey the source of their campaign funds, the unions.
A Revolt is happening, from New Jersey to California. At some point the bullying tactics will end and respect will begin--that happens when unions are treated like the African Violet Society, not the Ruling Party in Cuba.
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"It’s not just the money. How do you think the inmates in California’s prisons are getting cell phones and other contraband? Here’s the Times again: “Prison employees, roughly half of whom are unionized guards, are the main source of smuggled phones that inmates use to run drugs and other crimes, according to legislative analysts who examined the problem last year.”
Yet people want solutions. Well, the technical solutions are simple. The state needs to slash the size of government, slash the number of government employees, contract out legitimate services and remind the public that the government is not responsible for taking care of them. State officials need to lower tax rates and reduce regulations, so that the private sector will begin generating new jobs and revenue here rather than in less-regulated locales. Regarding pensions and retiree health care, the state needs to provide benefits to its employees that are in line with those received in the private sector. The issue is political, and there is zero political will in the Capitol to even modestly reform these benefits for new hires.
An Assembly official recently told me about a proposal to reduce the pensions of state employees who have been convicted of serious crimes, but the unions pulled out the stops, and this bill died. If the Legislature can’t reduce the pensions of criminals, what’s the chance of broader reform?"
In Wisconsin, we see Democrat Senators running like crooks away from the Capitol, to protect the unions. Like thieves in the night they will be caught, returned to the Capitol and forced to obey their oath of office--and obey the source of their campaign funds, the unions.
A Revolt is happening, from New Jersey to California. At some point the bullying tactics will end and respect will begin--that happens when unions are treated like the African Violet Society, not the Ruling Party in Cuba.
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