Sausage Gets Made Today in Sacramento
If the good government types behind Proposition 31 want to get their sweeping reform initiative passed in November; they need to take a camera into the Legislature today and start filming. With the two-year session coming to an end, legislators will be desperate to pass the flood of pending bills before the midnight deadline. Bills […]
Politicians Fail on Pensions, Voters Must Step Up Again
Although Governor Brown’s last minute announcement of a pension deal with the legislature left little time for review, analysis and comment on its complex provisions, experts have developed some rough numbers which show just how far short the plan falls of solving California’s pension crisis. A team of independent actuaries looked at the proposed legislation […]
Poll: Yes to Public Pension Reform, No to State Run Private Workers Pensions
Only a couple of days after the release of Governor Jerry Brown’s pension reform proposal, the California Business Roundtable-Pepperdine University School of Public Policy bi-weekly poll confirmed that voters want public pension reform. An overwhelming 71% of those participating in the Internet poll conducted by M4 Strategies said pension reform is a major part of […]
From Tampa – We Now Have The Opportunity to Renew America’s Greatness
Yesterday evening, America got to see a humble man of strength and character accept the nomination to be our next President of the United States. And I am energized more than ever to help elect America’s comeback team, soon to be President Mitt Romney and Vice President Paul Ryan! As I wrote earlier in the […]
Could Pension Savings Fund High-Speed Rail?
Before this week, California had a $60 billion-or-so problem. It was called the high-speed rail, Phase 1. That’s a rough estimate of the money California would need to complete the project that it now wants to start – and doesn’t currently have. Where would it come from? The feds don’t have it. Private investors aren’t […]