Posted on 02/08/2011 1:21:32 PM PST by 92nina
...California, facing a half of trillion dollar unfunded pension liability, is home to the nation’s largest ticking pension time bomb. Noteworthy is that calls for pension reform are becoming increasingly bipartisan, especially in blue states like California where left-of-center interests are beginning to recognize that ballooning pension costs are taking up an increasing share of the budget and diverting scarce state resources from progressive pet projects and programs.
As the Manhattan Institute’s Fred Siegel recently noted in the Wall Street Journal, government-sector unionism is a relatively recent development, a product of the 1930s, that liberals originally had great reservations about...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/california-group-looks-end-government-sector-a5833#ixzz1DP5p0rTm
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
Good luck with that!
You have an uphill fight on your knees over rusty razor blades....
Good luck with that. Sincerely.
Moonbean is about to present Californians with the false choice of raised taxes or wholesale parolling of cons/reduced fire & police services/closing libraries/starving babies.
As dense as they are, Californians have to be made aware that there are other lower hanging fruit that can be harvested first - namely benefits going to greedy public sector employees and illegal aliens.
Education is the key.
The One and Future Governor says that he cares about infants? Woh, how the world changes! But I get what you’re saying. It’s said that California points the way, always a few years ahead of us, for better, and especially for the worse...
There is no education in Kalefornia, only indoctrination.
Allow me to clarify: education is key, but not the kind administered by the public sector.
>> Which way will the Left Coast turn?
DOWN.
Joe and Jane Average Californian will eventually learn what works and what does not, not unlike citizens in other nations learned that Fascism doesn't work, then communism, then socialism, then liberalism, and now progressivism.
But the lesson is gonna hurt like hell.
On the bright side, you are already doing your part.
Politicians have been underfunding pensions for decades so they could buy votes.
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