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Arizona Land Sells for 8% of Price Calpers Paid
Forextv.com ^ | May 29, 2011 | staff writer

Posted on 05/29/2011 3:49:53 PM PDT by fifedom

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To: fifedom

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21 posted on 05/29/2011 5:53:05 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: pointsal

“Location south of Goodyear on the Maricopa/Pinal County line. Yikes look at a map! Goodyear zoning map online.”

Having lived in Arizona years ago I know what that land is like. 115 degrees, creosote bushes, and sun blistered rock! And no water!
Every drop of water in Arizona is owned by three people, the person who has it, the person who wants it, and the person as yet decided by the courts.


22 posted on 05/29/2011 6:34:31 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: fifedom

Keep the land and give each retiree ten square feet and cut off the retirement money.


23 posted on 05/29/2011 7:20:38 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: fifedom

Interesting that Goldman Sachs had a part in the foreclosure.


24 posted on 05/29/2011 7:21:17 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: Mr. K

Being a retired public employee through the ranks to a Director I don’t believe any government employee should be compensated with public funds for having performed their obligated duties to perform for the benefit of the pubic tax payers. In today’s world public employees are paid very good for the benefit of the public.


25 posted on 05/29/2011 7:36:21 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: fifedom

There was a CALPERS investment a few years back that a former CALPERS employee (I’m sure, still on the retirement plan) went to the “private sector” and make a bet into the CDO markets and lost over $300 million taxpayer dollars while personally earning $15 million in placement fees.

No charges were brought.

Democrats laugh as we pay for their mansions.


26 posted on 05/29/2011 8:37:46 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: kingu
I note ruefully that no one has replied to your post, I think arising primarily from its cognitive dissonance with the usual conservative support for basic police and fire services. What you are describing I have been observing for years.

From haz-mat teams to police and fire, these jobs are now all about "officer safety" and less about taking the risks for which they are outrageously compensated. They invent massive responses to minuscule events that end up as social gabfests... leading to the big sweetener... overtime. CaCHING!!! It's why we're paying San Jose police sergeants over a quarter million per year.

This is particularly bad at the State level, whether in the Highway Patrol, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. These people think more about what their union can do for them than they do about the jobs they are paid to perform.

27 posted on 05/30/2011 9:45:07 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I just hope it was AZ as CA has been stealing our water for years.


28 posted on 05/30/2011 4:53:38 PM PDT by az wildkitten
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