Today another of our poorly informed friends calling himself Carter posted an ANTI union comment after an article about lay offs in Vista Unified School District.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=story
Carter's anti union comment is just a repeat of the lies and disinformation about unions and state and federal budget difficulties that currently permeates our society. The hired gun CON men on AM radio and FOX News are annually paid millions of dollars to disseminate these kind of false narratives linking unions benefits and pensions to budget deficits.
Now that there is no Fairness Doctrine OUR public airwaves are swamped by the lies of the greedy billionaire bullies crowd. These bullies never are satisfied. Theirs fortunes never big enough. The salaries of their employees (who actually create the wealth) are never small enough for these bullies. The bullies have bought and paid for radio station networks that only allow "opinion makers" on air who push the billionaire bullys' anti middle class, anti worker pay and benefit lies. One of them owns the FOXnotNews network and a string of newspapers including the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch).
With the massive propaganda advantage their money buys the billionaire bullies, it is no wonder that their message of distortion has had such a big effect on those weak of mind and easily duped like poor Carter who posted the following after the article today:
Carter said on: May 4, 2011, 5:28 am
It causes pause to wonder if the teachers brought it all on themselves with their individual sopping up from the union troughs, unsightly and unreasonable benefits - along with all the other unions. Those being laid off do not have to be doing the sopping at the troughs.
In these bad times if we ain't got the money, we just ain't got the money - that is after due, and fair consideration. You cannot get blood out of a turnip.
Union leaders and bargaining officials must be mandated to hold union benefits with the bounds of reasonability. When benefits move to the extreme low or high something has to give.
I am a retired, up to date, associate member of a union.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_c63a33ed-14ee-57e5-8e54-2247ba7528d4.html?mode=comments
How charitable of Carter the CONfused, he got his and now wants to deny young people a fair shake in life.
Local school districts budget problems have nothing to do with unions--nothing. This problem is almost entirely the fault of Sacramento Republicans who took an oath of loyalty to an UNELECTED Washington DC lobbyist, Grover Norquist.
Norquist demanded that the voters of California NOT be given a chance to decide for themselves if they wanted massive DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts or extending existing taxes for five more years. Norquist demanded no vote, because he, an out of state usurper of our California democracy, wanted DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts imposed on the citizens of our state.
Every single Sacramento Republican chose their oath of loyalty to 'King' Norquist over the good of the state and our students. Not one Sacramento Republican agreed to let the voters decide.
The Sacramento Republicans had this ability because of the recently passed Prop 26 that required a two thirds majority of both houses before, we the people can be given the right to vote on tax extensions. Sacramento Republicans were afraid to give us our RIGHT to vote and the chance to save our schools because we might have voted to save our schools.
The current breed of Sacramento Republican has no independent thought. They move in a herd terrified of 'King' Grover Norquist and the massive amount of billionaire bully money he controls. 'King' Norquist decrees, Sacramento Republicans say yes sir!
If we had had a chance to vote, we might have decided to temporarily extend our taxes instead of imposing the DOOMSDAY BUDGET on our neighbors who are poor, ill, elderly or school children. Sacramento Republicans under orders from their 'king' made sure the DOOMSDAY BUDGET would be imposed on all Californians.
It would have taken only FOUR Sacramento Republicans to give we the people the right to vote.
Here are the names and phone numbers of the four North County Sacramento Republicans who betrayed you and every other North County taxpayer, voter, parent and child:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Voters frustrated with local Sacramento Republicans. Martin Garrick, Nathan Fletcher, Diane Harkey, Mark Wyland deny taxpayers the right to vote
The North County Times has devoted front page space to allowing our local Sacramento Republicans to pretend that they are doing the job they were elected to do.
You can read our local four Sacramento Republicans try to spin their despicable decision to deny us the right to vote as something positive in the North County soft ball piece entitled:
REGION: Legislators frustrated with meltdown in budget negotiations
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_21f8adc6-7294-5819-8d39-a3202b264fec.html
Not one Sacramento Republican, NOT ONE, agreed to allow us to vote. Then our local Sacramento scum, have the nerve to try to blame the Governor? What chutzpah!
The Sacramento Republicans did not trust the people of the state of California. So the sniveling traitorous cowards now try to blame their unwillingness to give us a vote on somebody else!
Their whining sounds like the lies of an OJ lawyer saying it was a drug cartel that murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Hey right, we believe you.
Say Sacramento Republicans, how much did you get from King Grover Norquist for betraying the voters in your district? How much will you celebrate when public schools are cut back by four to five ADDITIONAL weeks for the next school year? What one less week this year wasn't good enough? Oh that's right FACT based public education frightens you.
Well you heartless and mean spirited sc*m, every child in California even in your religious based publicly financed "charter" public schools will have a severely curtailed learning experience next year.
And for the folks that listen to am con man radio who support the heartless agenda of the Sacramento Republicans and their King Norquist, why don't they ever wonder why there is only one message from the hired guns am radio conmen? They who listen and believe the conmen are even more responsible for what happened today.
Without the lies of the con man on the radio and those who believe and act on those lies, these Robbercons in Sacramento would have been afraid to kiss the ring of King Norquist and declare their ever lasting loyalty to his wishes and demands. They might have given us a chance to vote. But no, King Norquist and his billionaire bully patrons get there wish--No vote for you!
Congrats to foolishness, meanness, selfishness, and the continuation of the plunder of every resource of the middle class by the billionaire bullies and their hired guns. And so ended democracy in the great American experiment.
Here are the names and phone numbers of the four who betrayed you and every other North County taxpayer, voter, parent and child:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
You can read our local four Sacramento Republicans try to spin their despicable decision to deny us the right to vote as something positive in the North County soft ball piece entitled:
REGION: Legislators frustrated with meltdown in budget negotiations
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_21f8adc6-7294-5819-8d39-a3202b264fec.html
Not one Sacramento Republican, NOT ONE, agreed to allow us to vote. Then our local Sacramento scum, have the nerve to try to blame the Governor? What chutzpah!
The Sacramento Republicans did not trust the people of the state of California. So the sniveling traitorous cowards now try to blame their unwillingness to give us a vote on somebody else!
Their whining sounds like the lies of an OJ lawyer saying it was a drug cartel that murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Hey right, we believe you.
Say Sacramento Republicans, how much did you get from King Grover Norquist for betraying the voters in your district? How much will you celebrate when public schools are cut back by four to five ADDITIONAL weeks for the next school year? What one less week this year wasn't good enough? Oh that's right FACT based public education frightens you.
Well you heartless and mean spirited sc*m, every child in California even in your religious based publicly financed "charter" public schools will have a severely curtailed learning experience next year.
And for the folks that listen to am con man radio who support the heartless agenda of the Sacramento Republicans and their King Norquist, why don't they ever wonder why there is only one message from the hired guns am radio conmen? They who listen and believe the conmen are even more responsible for what happened today.
Without the lies of the con man on the radio and those who believe and act on those lies, these Robbercons in Sacramento would have been afraid to kiss the ring of King Norquist and declare their ever lasting loyalty to his wishes and demands. They might have given us a chance to vote. But no, King Norquist and his billionaire bully patrons get there wish--No vote for you!
Congrats to foolishness, meanness, selfishness, and the continuation of the plunder of every resource of the middle class by the billionaire bullies and their hired guns. And so ended democracy in the great American experiment.
Here are the names and phone numbers of the four who betrayed you and every other North County taxpayer, voter, parent and child:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Back Hand Criticism of Sacramento Republicans by North County Times
Pigs fly a second week in a row. The North County Times editorial staff has back handly mildly criticized the Sacramento Republicans on two consequetive Saturdays by reprinting a mild criticism of the Sac. Repubs from another newspaper. Here is the reprinted editorial from the safely pro Republican Stockton newspaper that made it passed the union hating editorial staff at the North County Times:
Let the people speak
Last week, half the heavy lifting for the new state budget was completed. Republicans ---- some Republicans, anyway ---- helped out, voting for a series of bills designed to cut away about $14 billion of the state's monstrous $26.6 billion deficit.
Who would have thought the easy part would be cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from our colleges and universities, shifting prisoners to county jails and slashing funds for Medi-Cal patients?
But to erase the rest will take an extension of existing tax rates (or absent, that, significant additional cuts). That requires two things: acquiescence by enough legislative Republicans to put the extension on the June ballot (it takes a two-thirds vote of the Legislature) and a willingness of California voters to keeping current tax rates. ...
Before that happens, the Brown administration needs to spell out, clearly and in the most unvarnished terms possible, what will happen if legislative Republicans remain united in their opposition to letting state voters have a voice.
---- The Record (Stockton), March 23
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_2e12e72e-6c2b-524d-9a58-b4bd4abf1dff.html
Let the people speak
Last week, half the heavy lifting for the new state budget was completed. Republicans ---- some Republicans, anyway ---- helped out, voting for a series of bills designed to cut away about $14 billion of the state's monstrous $26.6 billion deficit.
Who would have thought the easy part would be cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from our colleges and universities, shifting prisoners to county jails and slashing funds for Medi-Cal patients?
But to erase the rest will take an extension of existing tax rates (or absent, that, significant additional cuts). That requires two things: acquiescence by enough legislative Republicans to put the extension on the June ballot (it takes a two-thirds vote of the Legislature) and a willingness of California voters to keeping current tax rates. ...
Before that happens, the Brown administration needs to spell out, clearly and in the most unvarnished terms possible, what will happen if legislative Republicans remain united in their opposition to letting state voters have a voice.
---- The Record (Stockton), March 23
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_2e12e72e-6c2b-524d-9a58-b4bd4abf1dff.html
Friday, March 25, 2011
Why is Peter York, publisher of the North County Times so afraid of the truth?
Why is truth so scary for Peter York, the publisher of the North County Times? Twice now he has had his editorial staff lackeys write a blatantly false fact in an editorial. Twice.
What is that fact that Peter York is so afraid of? The fact that Governor Brown has NOT called for a tax extension and certainly has NOT called for a tax increase.
Brown has ASKED only for a VOTE of the PEOPLE on whether THE PEOPLE of the state want to cut all 26 billion in one year, the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, or to cut only half that much the difference made up by a LIMITED TIME tax extension of existing taxes.
Yet York has is editorial staff falsely write, “…the governor's call for $14 billion of tax extensions (or hikes, depending on which side is talking).”
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_085e4966-dc22-5043-ae65-aa3ab812aed9.html
This is the second editorial in which Peter York has falsely said that Jerry Brown is calling for a tax hike.http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_76ea605a-f5f5-5a84-9abc-e66a8761c948.html
All Brown is asking for is A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE. Why are Peter York and his Sacramento Republican friends so afraid of the concept of the people deciding, not politicians?
We, the people, should be given the choice between having mentally challenged on the streets in the DOOMSDAY BUDGET or in group homes under the tax extension. We, the people, should be able to decide whether we want our K-12 children in school for a full school year or have that year cut another four to five weeks in the 2011-2012 school “year” (in addition to the one week already lost this school “year.”)
And this is no “kabuki dance”. This will happen. The November ballot initiative idea is probably illegal under recently passed Prop 26. The initiative must get on the June ballot BEFORE the next fiscal year starts for the state on July 1st.
It takes four Sacramento Republican votes to get the issue on the June ballot giving the people the power to make the decision for ourselves. Every single Sacramento Republican has said "No, you people can't vote. We have a fidelity oath to Washington DC lobbyist Grover Norquist and his unlimited pot of campaign money that is more important than giving you the right to vote. We will decide the issue for you." And they are deciding. Without a vote, the only choice is an all cuts, DOOMSDAY BUDGET--with 26 billion in cuts all in one year.
If you want the right to vote on this issue, please contact our four local Sacramento Republicans today.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
What is that fact that Peter York is so afraid of? The fact that Governor Brown has NOT called for a tax extension and certainly has NOT called for a tax increase.
Brown has ASKED only for a VOTE of the PEOPLE on whether THE PEOPLE of the state want to cut all 26 billion in one year, the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, or to cut only half that much the difference made up by a LIMITED TIME tax extension of existing taxes.
Yet York has is editorial staff falsely write, “…the governor's call for $14 billion of tax extensions (or hikes, depending on which side is talking).”
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_085e4966-dc22-5043-ae65-aa3ab812aed9.html
This is the second editorial in which Peter York has falsely said that Jerry Brown is calling for a tax hike.http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_76ea605a-f5f5-5a84-9abc-e66a8761c948.html
All Brown is asking for is A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE. Why are Peter York and his Sacramento Republican friends so afraid of the concept of the people deciding, not politicians?
We, the people, should be given the choice between having mentally challenged on the streets in the DOOMSDAY BUDGET or in group homes under the tax extension. We, the people, should be able to decide whether we want our K-12 children in school for a full school year or have that year cut another four to five weeks in the 2011-2012 school “year” (in addition to the one week already lost this school “year.”)
And this is no “kabuki dance”. This will happen. The November ballot initiative idea is probably illegal under recently passed Prop 26. The initiative must get on the June ballot BEFORE the next fiscal year starts for the state on July 1st.
It takes four Sacramento Republican votes to get the issue on the June ballot giving the people the power to make the decision for ourselves. Every single Sacramento Republican has said "No, you people can't vote. We have a fidelity oath to Washington DC lobbyist Grover Norquist and his unlimited pot of campaign money that is more important than giving you the right to vote. We will decide the issue for you." And they are deciding. Without a vote, the only choice is an all cuts, DOOMSDAY BUDGET--with 26 billion in cuts all in one year.
If you want the right to vote on this issue, please contact our four local Sacramento Republicans today.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Teachers in San Marcos at impasse, not for a raise, just for a smaller pay cut
The most interesting line from the article about the contract talks impasse in San Marcos:
"the district refused to move off of an 11.26 percent total salary reduction for 2011-2012 school year"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/san-marcos/article_2d01b11e-c4b6-5ffb-af8b-fd6e430289f2.html
Welcome to North County Times and FOXnotNews America! Where the middle class has to grovel and beg just to keep their salaries from dropping through the floor.
Are the "evil" (by NCTIMES and FOX standards)unionized teachers demanding a pay raise? No, just that their pay be cut a little bit less. It's the new Robbercon dark, Dickinsonian vision of America where Oliver is the American teacher, "Please sir, may I have enough to buy food for my family?"
Meanwhile our local Sacramento Republicans are staying true to their oath of absolute fidelity to Washington DC lobbyist, Grover "King" Norquist (and his massive pot of campaign money) who has demanded that they impose the DOOMSDAY Budget on California schools WITHOUT ALLOWING A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE!
The DOOMSDAY BUDGET will shorten our next school year by an additional four to five weeks.
Shouldn't the voters of California have a choice about whether they want DOOMSDAY or a tax extension of our EXISTING TAXES not forever, but just for five years? Sacramento Republicans say no!
Sadly due to Prop 26 passed in November the Sacramento Republican minority has the one third vote necessary to deny us our right to vote. To get the right to vote, WE THE PEOPLE need just FOUR Sacramento Republicans. So far NOT ONE SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN HAS AGREED TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO A VOTE!!! The Sacramento Republicans have been celebrating their victory over school children for the last week now.
Perhaps if Sacramento Republicans would ALLOW A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE then THE PEOPLE, NOT SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS might chose to vote for the tax extensions in June, or not. However if the people vote for the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, then at least when the San Marcos teachers start losing their homes next year and San Marcos children are on the streets instead of in schools, we would all know that it was the will of the people.
Here are our four local Sacramento Republicans who all have arrogantly refused to give the people of the state the right to vote on the DOOMSDAY BUDGET because their "King" Norquist as so commanded them.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Read more about the "we know better than you" Sacramento Republicans in this excellent LATimes piece:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-la-0316-lopez-savinghamilton-20110315,0,4197792.column
Here is a parent group website same topic
http://www.educateourstate.org/
Read more about "King" Norquist here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-parker/why-grover-norquist-is-th_b_833169.html
find out why the estate tax is just like the Holocaust from the lips of King Norquist here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1008-07.htm
"the district refused to move off of an 11.26 percent total salary reduction for 2011-2012 school year"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/san-marcos/article_2d01b11e-c4b6-5ffb-af8b-fd6e430289f2.html
Welcome to North County Times and FOXnotNews America! Where the middle class has to grovel and beg just to keep their salaries from dropping through the floor.
Are the "evil" (by NCTIMES and FOX standards)unionized teachers demanding a pay raise? No, just that their pay be cut a little bit less. It's the new Robbercon dark, Dickinsonian vision of America where Oliver is the American teacher, "Please sir, may I have enough to buy food for my family?"
Meanwhile our local Sacramento Republicans are staying true to their oath of absolute fidelity to Washington DC lobbyist, Grover "King" Norquist (and his massive pot of campaign money) who has demanded that they impose the DOOMSDAY Budget on California schools WITHOUT ALLOWING A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE!
The DOOMSDAY BUDGET will shorten our next school year by an additional four to five weeks.
Shouldn't the voters of California have a choice about whether they want DOOMSDAY or a tax extension of our EXISTING TAXES not forever, but just for five years? Sacramento Republicans say no!
Sadly due to Prop 26 passed in November the Sacramento Republican minority has the one third vote necessary to deny us our right to vote. To get the right to vote, WE THE PEOPLE need just FOUR Sacramento Republicans. So far NOT ONE SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN HAS AGREED TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO A VOTE!!! The Sacramento Republicans have been celebrating their victory over school children for the last week now.
Perhaps if Sacramento Republicans would ALLOW A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE then THE PEOPLE, NOT SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS might chose to vote for the tax extensions in June, or not. However if the people vote for the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, then at least when the San Marcos teachers start losing their homes next year and San Marcos children are on the streets instead of in schools, we would all know that it was the will of the people.
Here are our four local Sacramento Republicans who all have arrogantly refused to give the people of the state the right to vote on the DOOMSDAY BUDGET because their "King" Norquist as so commanded them.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Read more about the "we know better than you" Sacramento Republicans in this excellent LATimes piece:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-la-0316-lopez-savinghamilton-20110315,0,4197792.column
Here is a parent group website same topic
http://www.educateourstate.org/
Read more about "King" Norquist here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-parker/why-grover-norquist-is-th_b_833169.html
find out why the estate tax is just like the Holocaust from the lips of King Norquist here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1008-07.htm
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Shari Crall You Get What You Pay For from North County Times
When we are contently assailed with lies and half truths about the evils of government workers, public school teachers, custodians, police, and fire fighters, it is nice to see some sanity once in a while. Believe it or not I found today's sanity on the editorial pages of the North County Times!
Weird two days in a row, our local CON propaganda outlet had something that wasn't hateful or inaccurate. No banner headline running down of unions or the middle class they created. No fooled by FOXnotNews type slime as their lead editorial.
No today the North County Times placed a well written, rational forum piece about the importance and VALUE of government work on their editorial page.
FORUM: In this democracy, you get what you pay for
By Shari Crall North County Times - The Californian Sunday, March 20, 2011 12:00 am |
I'm a wannabe. A wannabe government worker, that is. Not to get some great pension or benefits. Not to put my hand in every American's wallet. I'm a wannabe government worker because I believe many things are done better collectively than individually, and that some functions mandate an application of authority.
For instance, I don't have the interest or ability to check whether other drivers on the road have licenses or that their cars don't pollute or that my food is safe or the road is paved and in good repair, etc. These are functions I am willing to pay for, together with you, because I get benefit back.
Because of the American government, we have a stable political climate, currency system, judiciary, and even a bailed-out banking system, so I can conduct business in a relatively safe environment. Government offices process title claims, business sales and myriad other small tasks that give me a life that runs smoothly and enables me to focus on what I want to focus on: my family and furthering my education
I am throwing back to the '70s with all this complaining about the cost of government ---- "love it or leave it." We take too much for granted. Go ahead, move somewhere without government to work through all this minutiae for you. Try getting a land deed in Haiti, pre-earthquake even, or Somalia, or put your money in a bank in beautiful Greece.
There was a time when America was proud of its genius in embracing Locke and Rousseau's social contract, the idea that societies flourish when they communally accomplish the busy work. I pay a percentage of my income for that, and what I get back are smooth pathways, emergency responses, a society invested in education and the potential of individuals.
As a nation, we seem to feel entitled to government services we don't want to pay for.
When a parolee murders a beautiful young woman, we scream, "Where was the government?"
When a hurricane devastates, we yell, "Where is the government?"
When potholes go unfilled, we demand, "Where is the government?"
I'll tell you where: laid off, on furlough or working through high case loads. We sound like spoiled clients miffed that we are not getting five-star service from a budget motel.
The move to see ourselves as only government customers, not citizens, belies reality.
Government is not a service industry and we are not the served. Rather, we are the other partner in the contract, the other provider. What we don't contract with our partner to do, we need to do ourselves. We turn over certain rights and responsibilities to the collective because we want to free ourselves from the attending restraints.
The American way is not magic, and it is not free. I am willing to pay my fair share.
SHARI CRALL is a resident of Temecula. Her birthday is Tax Day.
Weird two days in a row, our local CON propaganda outlet had something that wasn't hateful or inaccurate. No banner headline running down of unions or the middle class they created. No fooled by FOXnotNews type slime as their lead editorial.
No today the North County Times placed a well written, rational forum piece about the importance and VALUE of government work on their editorial page.
FORUM: In this democracy, you get what you pay for
By Shari Crall North County Times - The Californian Sunday, March 20, 2011 12:00 am |
I'm a wannabe. A wannabe government worker, that is. Not to get some great pension or benefits. Not to put my hand in every American's wallet. I'm a wannabe government worker because I believe many things are done better collectively than individually, and that some functions mandate an application of authority.
For instance, I don't have the interest or ability to check whether other drivers on the road have licenses or that their cars don't pollute or that my food is safe or the road is paved and in good repair, etc. These are functions I am willing to pay for, together with you, because I get benefit back.
Because of the American government, we have a stable political climate, currency system, judiciary, and even a bailed-out banking system, so I can conduct business in a relatively safe environment. Government offices process title claims, business sales and myriad other small tasks that give me a life that runs smoothly and enables me to focus on what I want to focus on: my family and furthering my education
I am throwing back to the '70s with all this complaining about the cost of government ---- "love it or leave it." We take too much for granted. Go ahead, move somewhere without government to work through all this minutiae for you. Try getting a land deed in Haiti, pre-earthquake even, or Somalia, or put your money in a bank in beautiful Greece.
There was a time when America was proud of its genius in embracing Locke and Rousseau's social contract, the idea that societies flourish when they communally accomplish the busy work. I pay a percentage of my income for that, and what I get back are smooth pathways, emergency responses, a society invested in education and the potential of individuals.
As a nation, we seem to feel entitled to government services we don't want to pay for.
When a parolee murders a beautiful young woman, we scream, "Where was the government?"
When a hurricane devastates, we yell, "Where is the government?"
When potholes go unfilled, we demand, "Where is the government?"
I'll tell you where: laid off, on furlough or working through high case loads. We sound like spoiled clients miffed that we are not getting five-star service from a budget motel.
The move to see ourselves as only government customers, not citizens, belies reality.
Government is not a service industry and we are not the served. Rather, we are the other partner in the contract, the other provider. What we don't contract with our partner to do, we need to do ourselves. We turn over certain rights and responsibilities to the collective because we want to free ourselves from the attending restraints.
The American way is not magic, and it is not free. I am willing to pay my fair share.
SHARI CRALL is a resident of Temecula. Her birthday is Tax Day.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Pigs fly! Snow in Hell! North County Times criticizes Sacramento Republicans!
Yes that was a flock of pigs you saw fly by your house this morning and yes,
those news reports of a blizzard in Sheol are true!
Unbelievable! The right wing, reliably pro-billionaire bully agenda, and always anti-union, anti-middle class, anti-science North County Times editorial staff has chosen to criticize Sacramento Republicans for refusing to allow the people a vote on the DOOMSDAY BUDGET. Wow!
Perhaps there is trouble in fool's paradise among the mean spirited Sacramento Republican minority that has been celebrating their power to impose the DOOMSDAY BUDGET on all of us without a vote. It seems they may have started that celebration a bit too soon if even the the most rabid of their network of media mouthpieces, the North County Times, re-prints an editorial critical of their actions.
Yes, I said RE-print. I know I know it is not like the Peter York, the publisher and his crew of "yes men" editorial writers, were brave enough to write the editorial themselves. But hey, they did re-print one. That is a first positive step towards their growth towards becoming fair minded adult editors.
So I celebrate their change to side of goodness and light. Let's give the voters a chance to decide whether or not the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, with four to five fewer weeks of school, will be imposed on our school children.
Our four local Sacramento Republicans are still ALL thumbing their noses at the people of the state of California. They all say, "NO you can't" when asked to allow us to vote. They have also all said that their pledge of fidelity and allegiance to out-of-state, Washington lobbyist, Grover Norquist, is more important than representing the voting citizens of their districts.
Grover tells California voters,"no vote for you". Our foolish four local Sac. Repubs. echo him and repeat, "No vote for you" They never seem to forget their blood oath of absolute loyalty to His Royal Majesty, King Norquist and the massive amount of campaign money he controls.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Here is the RE-printed excellent editorial in the North County Times today.
Message to California legislators, especially Republicans: Let the people decide.
As we move close to a deadline to get a tax extension measure on a June 7 ballot, the Legislature met Wednesday in an attempt to push though Gov. Jerry Brown's austere budget plan that attempts to close a nearly $27 billion deficit with spending cuts and by extending a series of tax measures.
Brown, however, has been unable so far to secure the two Republican votes he needs to get the five-year tax extensions onto the June ballot.
But a statewide Field Poll released this week shows voters support Brown's budget proposal ---- including the tax extensions.
While it's getting late to make a June 7 ballot, just getting the extensions to voters that month still would be better than the alternative. Some Democrats are urging Brown to give up on the idea of a special election and just extend the taxes with the few Republican votes he'd need in the Legislature.
Voters want the chance to make the final call ---- 61 percent said they want a special election on taxes to solve the budget rather than have the Legislature decide on its own.
Guess they don't trust their elected representatives to make the right decisions on the budget. Based on the record, why should they?
---- Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 17
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_d270fba1-c5b2-54e7-88ee-8a821346a65d.html
those news reports of a blizzard in Sheol are true!
Unbelievable! The right wing, reliably pro-billionaire bully agenda, and always anti-union, anti-middle class, anti-science North County Times editorial staff has chosen to criticize Sacramento Republicans for refusing to allow the people a vote on the DOOMSDAY BUDGET. Wow!
Perhaps there is trouble in fool's paradise among the mean spirited Sacramento Republican minority that has been celebrating their power to impose the DOOMSDAY BUDGET on all of us without a vote. It seems they may have started that celebration a bit too soon if even the the most rabid of their network of media mouthpieces, the North County Times, re-prints an editorial critical of their actions.
Yes, I said RE-print. I know I know it is not like the Peter York, the publisher and his crew of "yes men" editorial writers, were brave enough to write the editorial themselves. But hey, they did re-print one. That is a first positive step towards their growth towards becoming fair minded adult editors.
So I celebrate their change to side of goodness and light. Let's give the voters a chance to decide whether or not the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, with four to five fewer weeks of school, will be imposed on our school children.
Our four local Sacramento Republicans are still ALL thumbing their noses at the people of the state of California. They all say, "NO you can't" when asked to allow us to vote. They have also all said that their pledge of fidelity and allegiance to out-of-state, Washington lobbyist, Grover Norquist, is more important than representing the voting citizens of their districts.
Grover tells California voters,"no vote for you". Our foolish four local Sac. Repubs. echo him and repeat, "No vote for you" They never seem to forget their blood oath of absolute loyalty to His Royal Majesty, King Norquist and the massive amount of campaign money he controls.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Here is the RE-printed excellent editorial in the North County Times today.
Message to California legislators, especially Republicans: Let the people decide.
As we move close to a deadline to get a tax extension measure on a June 7 ballot, the Legislature met Wednesday in an attempt to push though Gov. Jerry Brown's austere budget plan that attempts to close a nearly $27 billion deficit with spending cuts and by extending a series of tax measures.
Brown, however, has been unable so far to secure the two Republican votes he needs to get the five-year tax extensions onto the June ballot.
But a statewide Field Poll released this week shows voters support Brown's budget proposal ---- including the tax extensions.
While it's getting late to make a June 7 ballot, just getting the extensions to voters that month still would be better than the alternative. Some Democrats are urging Brown to give up on the idea of a special election and just extend the taxes with the few Republican votes he'd need in the Legislature.
Voters want the chance to make the final call ---- 61 percent said they want a special election on taxes to solve the budget rather than have the Legislature decide on its own.
Guess they don't trust their elected representatives to make the right decisions on the budget. Based on the record, why should they?
---- Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 17
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_d270fba1-c5b2-54e7-88ee-8a821346a65d.html
Thursday, March 17, 2011
North County Weighs in on the DOOMSDAY budget
The anti-union, anti-middle class North County Times continues to support the agenda of the billionaire bullies who despise the middle class and poor and government services that help the middle class and poor.
The NCTimes have a brief editorial about the upcoming DOOMSDAY budget that Sacramento Republicans are forcing on the people of the state without allowing us to vote whether we want it or not. But do the they condemn the Sacramento Republicans? Do they urge them to give us a chance to vote? No and No. All they do is condemn, Governor Brown.
Under the Brown POSSIBLE budget IF our existing taxes are extended, there are still 12 billion dollars worth of cuts. Not enough for the North County Times apparently. Sad, to think that it is the last 'news' paper in our North County. How I miss the real newspapers we used to have--the Times Advocate and the Vista Press!
As you may recall the DOOMSDAY BUDGET goes into place unless, the people of the state can vote to extend their existing taxes for five more years--NOT FOREVER--just five more years. The Sacramento Republicans say, "No you can't vote. We want a DOOMSDAY BUDGET. You voters were stupid enough to pass Prop 26 last November. That gave us the power to impose a DOOMSDAY BUDGET on you. So nanny nanny, we win, you lose ha ha."
Read the North County Times editorial at the URL listed below or better read the EXCELLENT editorial by Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times, that URL is found at the end of this post.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_76ea605a-f5f5-5a84-9abc-e66a8761c948.html
Even the LATimes, run by the right wing Chicago Tribune cons, seems to understand the petty cruelty and meanness of the Sacramento Republicans who are demanding a DOOMSDAY all cuts budget. Thanks to Prop 26 passed last November, this tiny cruel, remnant of a once mighty political party, now have the power to cut all California public schools academic year by up to five weeks in 2011-2012, next year.
All the people of the state are asking is a chance to decide whether we want to EXTEND not raise taxes in order to have a full length school year.
No one is asking to impose a new tax. All we want is the right to vote on EXTENDING EXISTING taxes or not. Then we the people decide the fate of the schools, not Sacramento Republicans.
The tone deaf Sacramento Republicans are sitting around in their caucus chuckling like satisfied hens by their power to lay the rotten egg of a greatly shortened academic school year. All because they do not want to let us vote. If we vote we might not chose to shorten the year but to just extend our taxes instead. Why is that so bad?
Here is what Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times said in his column today:
"There are no easy answers or pretty outcomes. As we all know, students included, everyone has to make sacrifices."
"But during tough times, even GOP hero Ronald Reagan and rock-solid conservative Gov. Pete Wilson temporarily raised taxes along with making tough cuts. Today, California's Republican legislators have so far refused to support Gov. Brown's plan to let voters decide whether they want to go that same route: to balance the budget half with cuts and half by temporarily extending tax increases."
"Nor have the Republicans explained how they'd whack $26 billion without putting more teachers out of work and destroying schools in their own districts. And where, by the way, are the parents in those districts? Are they going to watch in silence as their kids get hammered?"
At Hamilton, booster club president Chris Kenemuth told me she's a Republican who doesn't mind paying taxes to save great programs. She's been trying to contact Republican legislators to let them know how she feels, but they're not responding."
"Of course not. What can they say that doesn't shame them further? And how would they explain who wins when you fire teachers and demoralize students; when you take something that works and destroy it?"
Read the rest of his excellent column here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-la-0316-lopez-savinghamilton-20110315,0,4197792.column
If you want to try to get our local Sacramento Republicans off their mean spirited duffs, try calling them:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
The NCTimes have a brief editorial about the upcoming DOOMSDAY budget that Sacramento Republicans are forcing on the people of the state without allowing us to vote whether we want it or not. But do the they condemn the Sacramento Republicans? Do they urge them to give us a chance to vote? No and No. All they do is condemn, Governor Brown.
Under the Brown POSSIBLE budget IF our existing taxes are extended, there are still 12 billion dollars worth of cuts. Not enough for the North County Times apparently. Sad, to think that it is the last 'news' paper in our North County. How I miss the real newspapers we used to have--the Times Advocate and the Vista Press!
As you may recall the DOOMSDAY BUDGET goes into place unless, the people of the state can vote to extend their existing taxes for five more years--NOT FOREVER--just five more years. The Sacramento Republicans say, "No you can't vote. We want a DOOMSDAY BUDGET. You voters were stupid enough to pass Prop 26 last November. That gave us the power to impose a DOOMSDAY BUDGET on you. So nanny nanny, we win, you lose ha ha."
Read the North County Times editorial at the URL listed below or better read the EXCELLENT editorial by Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times, that URL is found at the end of this post.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_76ea605a-f5f5-5a84-9abc-e66a8761c948.html
Even the LATimes, run by the right wing Chicago Tribune cons, seems to understand the petty cruelty and meanness of the Sacramento Republicans who are demanding a DOOMSDAY all cuts budget. Thanks to Prop 26 passed last November, this tiny cruel, remnant of a once mighty political party, now have the power to cut all California public schools academic year by up to five weeks in 2011-2012, next year.
All the people of the state are asking is a chance to decide whether we want to EXTEND not raise taxes in order to have a full length school year.
No one is asking to impose a new tax. All we want is the right to vote on EXTENDING EXISTING taxes or not. Then we the people decide the fate of the schools, not Sacramento Republicans.
The tone deaf Sacramento Republicans are sitting around in their caucus chuckling like satisfied hens by their power to lay the rotten egg of a greatly shortened academic school year. All because they do not want to let us vote. If we vote we might not chose to shorten the year but to just extend our taxes instead. Why is that so bad?
Here is what Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times said in his column today:
"There are no easy answers or pretty outcomes. As we all know, students included, everyone has to make sacrifices."
"But during tough times, even GOP hero Ronald Reagan and rock-solid conservative Gov. Pete Wilson temporarily raised taxes along with making tough cuts. Today, California's Republican legislators have so far refused to support Gov. Brown's plan to let voters decide whether they want to go that same route: to balance the budget half with cuts and half by temporarily extending tax increases."
"Nor have the Republicans explained how they'd whack $26 billion without putting more teachers out of work and destroying schools in their own districts. And where, by the way, are the parents in those districts? Are they going to watch in silence as their kids get hammered?"
At Hamilton, booster club president Chris Kenemuth told me she's a Republican who doesn't mind paying taxes to save great programs. She's been trying to contact Republican legislators to let them know how she feels, but they're not responding."
"Of course not. What can they say that doesn't shame them further? And how would they explain who wins when you fire teachers and demoralize students; when you take something that works and destroy it?"
Read the rest of his excellent column here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-la-0316-lopez-savinghamilton-20110315,0,4197792.column
If you want to try to get our local Sacramento Republicans off their mean spirited duffs, try calling them:
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Friday, March 11, 2011
Our old friend VWdog tells the truth, a half truth and a whooper: Instead of new schools being built,existing schools in VUSD could have been expanded
VWdog, who is nearly the last ANTI public education foe still posting at the North County Times, has published another post with a mixture of truth, half truths and falsehoods.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_83dcab61-5552-5f31-b53b-4418b263e408.html?mode=comments
I believe his Whooper is the most important part of his post to be addressed. That whooper alleges that VUSD could simply have expanded existing schools and did not need to pass a bond to build new schools.
Because he has posted this same Big Lie on many other occasions it appears to be a part of the mythology of lies that our ANTI friends are using among themselves and are telling to others. We must be ready to counter their Big Lie with what truly happened here.
In the 1980's and 1990's, our school district had three bond failures. The result of those failures was that our district schools became among the most crowded in the state based on student density per acre of campus. Every VUSD school parking lot and every school play ground was filled with trailers used as classrooms because the stick and mortar classrooms were already full. Still there was not enough space for our students.
The VUSD School Board had only two options to deal with our SEVERELY overcrowded schools either Year Round School or double sessions. Our board chose YRE.
Only after the fourth bond was successful were we able to end YRE.
There is absolutely no truth to VWdog and our other ANTI friends claim that we did not need to pass a bond, even Jim Gibson saw the need to build new schools. He voted to put our fourth and final bond (Prop O) on the ballot. The residents of this district saw the need for new schools. They passed the bond by more than two thirds in 2002. Our community and even our most 'conservative' school board member both saw the need for a school bond to build new schools in 2002.
Below is more of my response to VWdog this morning.
THE TRUTH in VWdog's post: "The City is a TOTALLY different entity all together" (from the school district).
Yes, that is true. The City of Vista and Vista Unified School District are completely separate government entities. They have different funding sources, different boundaries, and different founding dates. VUSD is far older having been started in the 1930's. The City of Vista is much more recent having been incorporated in 1963. VUSD boundaries encompass a far larger area than the City of Vista. In fact VUSD includes about one third of the eastern half of the City of Oceanside. Very confusing to folks who live their and vote for Oceanside City Council members, but Vista Unified School District Board members. They do not vote for Oceanside School District board members at all.
THE HALF TRUTH: "the (school district has) authority to pass bonds to build new schools and to tax the local citizens within their District to pay for those bonds"
VUSD school board members have the power to call for a bond election to raise money to build schools or a parcel tax to pay for other district expenses. Only the residents of VUSD have the ability to pass that bond or parcel tax. Up until recently (2002?) both a school bond and a parcel tax required a 2/3rds majority to pass. Now only the parcel tax still requires a two thirds vote, a bond can pass if at least four of five board members put it on the ballot and it gets 55% of the vote.
THE BLATANT: "they built a bunch of new schools rather than enlarging existing schools"
VWdog has pushed this deception before. He is well aware that every school in our district was enlarged to its maximum. the parking lots and playgrounds were covered in temporary trailers to house students after the first of the school boards four bond attempts failed to get two thirds. Finally with two more failures there was no room left on any campus to put more trailers yet VUSD had too many students for its classrooms. The boards only two choices were double sessions or Year Round School. YRE is like "hot bunking" by sailors in submarines. Not enough bunks means when one sailor awakes for duty another climbs into his bunk. Same concept for YRE. Students went to school two months had one month off. During their month off the next "track" of students came into those classrooms. Some students had to change classrooms each month they were in school. There were roving teachers who went from classroom to classroom during the day using classrooms for their own students during a time a different teacher in the classroom had a prep period.
VUSD was among the most overcrowded school districts in the state. Finally in 2002 the voters passed a school bond with 2/3rds vote. Schools were built. YRE ended. Every thing was rosy except the Great Recession hit. The Great Recession has lowered ADA in districts across the state including VUSD and the Oceanside district.
VWdog claims he knew this in advance. I wish he had told the rest of us. Then we all could have gotten rich selling short on the stock market.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_83dcab61-5552-5f31-b53b-4418b263e408.html?mode=comments
I believe his Whooper is the most important part of his post to be addressed. That whooper alleges that VUSD could simply have expanded existing schools and did not need to pass a bond to build new schools.
Because he has posted this same Big Lie on many other occasions it appears to be a part of the mythology of lies that our ANTI friends are using among themselves and are telling to others. We must be ready to counter their Big Lie with what truly happened here.
In the 1980's and 1990's, our school district had three bond failures. The result of those failures was that our district schools became among the most crowded in the state based on student density per acre of campus. Every VUSD school parking lot and every school play ground was filled with trailers used as classrooms because the stick and mortar classrooms were already full. Still there was not enough space for our students.
The VUSD School Board had only two options to deal with our SEVERELY overcrowded schools either Year Round School or double sessions. Our board chose YRE.
Only after the fourth bond was successful were we able to end YRE.
There is absolutely no truth to VWdog and our other ANTI friends claim that we did not need to pass a bond, even Jim Gibson saw the need to build new schools. He voted to put our fourth and final bond (Prop O) on the ballot. The residents of this district saw the need for new schools. They passed the bond by more than two thirds in 2002. Our community and even our most 'conservative' school board member both saw the need for a school bond to build new schools in 2002.
Below is more of my response to VWdog this morning.
THE TRUTH in VWdog's post: "The City is a TOTALLY different entity all together" (from the school district).
Yes, that is true. The City of Vista and Vista Unified School District are completely separate government entities. They have different funding sources, different boundaries, and different founding dates. VUSD is far older having been started in the 1930's. The City of Vista is much more recent having been incorporated in 1963. VUSD boundaries encompass a far larger area than the City of Vista. In fact VUSD includes about one third of the eastern half of the City of Oceanside. Very confusing to folks who live their and vote for Oceanside City Council members, but Vista Unified School District Board members. They do not vote for Oceanside School District board members at all.
THE HALF TRUTH: "the (school district has) authority to pass bonds to build new schools and to tax the local citizens within their District to pay for those bonds"
VUSD school board members have the power to call for a bond election to raise money to build schools or a parcel tax to pay for other district expenses. Only the residents of VUSD have the ability to pass that bond or parcel tax. Up until recently (2002?) both a school bond and a parcel tax required a 2/3rds majority to pass. Now only the parcel tax still requires a two thirds vote, a bond can pass if at least four of five board members put it on the ballot and it gets 55% of the vote.
THE BLATANT: "they built a bunch of new schools rather than enlarging existing schools"
VWdog has pushed this deception before. He is well aware that every school in our district was enlarged to its maximum. the parking lots and playgrounds were covered in temporary trailers to house students after the first of the school boards four bond attempts failed to get two thirds. Finally with two more failures there was no room left on any campus to put more trailers yet VUSD had too many students for its classrooms. The boards only two choices were double sessions or Year Round School. YRE is like "hot bunking" by sailors in submarines. Not enough bunks means when one sailor awakes for duty another climbs into his bunk. Same concept for YRE. Students went to school two months had one month off. During their month off the next "track" of students came into those classrooms. Some students had to change classrooms each month they were in school. There were roving teachers who went from classroom to classroom during the day using classrooms for their own students during a time a different teacher in the classroom had a prep period.
VUSD was among the most overcrowded school districts in the state. Finally in 2002 the voters passed a school bond with 2/3rds vote. Schools were built. YRE ended. Every thing was rosy except the Great Recession hit. The Great Recession has lowered ADA in districts across the state including VUSD and the Oceanside district.
VWdog claims he knew this in advance. I wish he had told the rest of us. Then we all could have gotten rich selling short on the stock market.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The LIE at the center of the Wisconsin attack
Below is a quote form middle class champion, Erin Hill
"Last night, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) revealed the lie at the heart of his drive to ruin working families in Wisconsin. After insisting for weeks that union-busting was necessary to balance the state budget, Republicans in the legislature declared that it had no impact on the budget and passed the measure in a five minute meeting with no advance notice and no Democrats present.
Now we know what this struggle is really about: ruining Democrats. Working families are just collateral damage in Walker's power play."
Scott. Fitzgerald leader of the Wisconsin State Senate Republicans said with a grin on his face to FOXnotNews today that by succeeding in stripping union rights from state and local workers in Wisconsin means"Barack Obama will have a much harder time winning Wisconsin in the 2012 election."
That is what this is all about. It is a nationwide campaign funded by climate science deniers and union-hating billionaire bullies, Charles and David Koch to destroy any organized opposition to their goal of reducing worker wages and increasing profits for the filthy rich. Charles and David Koch are the FIFTH richest Americans but its not enough for them.
If you remain silent the Billionaire Bullies will win, please consider helping the Wisconsin heroes recall eight Wisconsin state senators.
The Billionaire Bullies Club has very powerful members in addition to the Koch brothers. Another is Rupert Murdoch who runs the anti middle class anti union FOXnotNews propaganda network. Fox, fooled you again, fake news has had a powerful impact on the uniformed in this country. We know from past experience that FOXnotNews"news" will lead every hour with blatantly false attacks on the Wisconsin recall attempts. We know that because they have run 24/7 lies about our brave Wisconsin heroes for the last four weeks.
Read a summary of FOX lies and see footage of palm trees supposedly in Wisconsin presented by FOXnotNews to twist the truth about our brave Wisconsin heroes. The FOX hired gun liars just make up stuff and present it as true to their CONfused viewers.
http://campusprogress.org/articles/fox_news_lies_about_violent_protests_in_wisconsin/
See a website financed by the billionaire bullies attacking Wisconsin teachers here:
http://slapblog.com/?p=10554
With billionaire bullies opposed to the Great Wisconsin Recall and a nationwide propaganda machine opposed to them, our Wisconsin heroes need every single dollar we can contribute to them. Read more about the Recall and how to help here:
http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/wisconsin-recall-efforts-just-got.html
"Last night, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) revealed the lie at the heart of his drive to ruin working families in Wisconsin. After insisting for weeks that union-busting was necessary to balance the state budget, Republicans in the legislature declared that it had no impact on the budget and passed the measure in a five minute meeting with no advance notice and no Democrats present.
Now we know what this struggle is really about: ruining Democrats. Working families are just collateral damage in Walker's power play."
Scott. Fitzgerald leader of the Wisconsin State Senate Republicans said with a grin on his face to FOXnotNews today that by succeeding in stripping union rights from state and local workers in Wisconsin means"Barack Obama will have a much harder time winning Wisconsin in the 2012 election."
That is what this is all about. It is a nationwide campaign funded by climate science deniers and union-hating billionaire bullies, Charles and David Koch to destroy any organized opposition to their goal of reducing worker wages and increasing profits for the filthy rich. Charles and David Koch are the FIFTH richest Americans but its not enough for them.
If you remain silent the Billionaire Bullies will win, please consider helping the Wisconsin heroes recall eight Wisconsin state senators.
The Billionaire Bullies Club has very powerful members in addition to the Koch brothers. Another is Rupert Murdoch who runs the anti middle class anti union FOXnotNews propaganda network. Fox, fooled you again, fake news has had a powerful impact on the uniformed in this country. We know from past experience that FOXnotNews"news" will lead every hour with blatantly false attacks on the Wisconsin recall attempts. We know that because they have run 24/7 lies about our brave Wisconsin heroes for the last four weeks.
Read a summary of FOX lies and see footage of palm trees supposedly in Wisconsin presented by FOXnotNews to twist the truth about our brave Wisconsin heroes. The FOX hired gun liars just make up stuff and present it as true to their CONfused viewers.
http://campusprogress.org/articles/fox_news_lies_about_violent_protests_in_wisconsin/
See a website financed by the billionaire bullies attacking Wisconsin teachers here:
http://slapblog.com/?p=10554
With billionaire bullies opposed to the Great Wisconsin Recall and a nationwide propaganda machine opposed to them, our Wisconsin heroes need every single dollar we can contribute to them. Read more about the Recall and how to help here:
http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/wisconsin-recall-efforts-just-got.html
Today is the DEADLINE for DOOMSDAY. No four Republican votes, DOOMSDAY comes.
Today is the last day to qualify the initiative allowing a vote of the people in June on whether they want a tax extension or the DOOMSDAY BUDGET.
AT least four Sacramento Republican votes are required for the tax extension question to be put on the ballot. If there are less than four Republican in favor of the public's right to vote than the DOOMSDAY will be enacted. There is no alternative.
Every single member of our California State Legislature who is NOT a Republican is in favor of giving voters the choice of picking a tax extension or enacting the DOOMSDAY BUDGET. However NOT ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN is willing to let the public vote, NOT ONE!
If you want the right to vote, you best chance is to convince our locally elected Sacramento Republicans. Call them right now. Tell them you want the right to vote.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
AT least four Sacramento Republican votes are required for the tax extension question to be put on the ballot. If there are less than four Republican in favor of the public's right to vote than the DOOMSDAY will be enacted. There is no alternative.
Every single member of our California State Legislature who is NOT a Republican is in favor of giving voters the choice of picking a tax extension or enacting the DOOMSDAY BUDGET. However NOT ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN is willing to let the public vote, NOT ONE!
If you want the right to vote, you best chance is to convince our locally elected Sacramento Republicans. Call them right now. Tell them you want the right to vote.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Why doesn't Jim Gibson complain about Sacramanto Republicans refusal to allow us to vote to stop DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS?
If Jim Gibson really cared about getting more money for our VUSD children’s education then today's Forum would be directed at the Sacramento Republicans. They are the ones denying us the right to vote to stop DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS.
To prevent DOOMSDAY, we the people, would have to vote in June to extend existing taxes. Prop 26 passed last November requires four Sacramento Republicans to allow us the vote. Every single NON-Republican is in favor of us giving us the right to vote. NOT ONE SINGLE SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN AGREES TO LET, WE, THE PEOPLE VOTE.
These DOOMSDAY CUTS will necessitate an additional four to five weeks cut from children’s school year in addition to the one week already lost this school year. Under the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS, all California public school children will have their school “year” reduced to as little as 150 days of schooling next school year.
Do you want that? Does Jim Gibson want that? If not why didn’t he write a Forum demanding that our locally elected Sacramento Republicans give us a right to vote on whether we want DOOMSDAY CUTS or not?
The deadline for getting the four Sacramento Republicans on board is tomorrow, March 10th. If the deadline passes, you will not be able to vote to extend our current taxes to prevent the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS. Wouldn’t you like a chance to vote? Shouldn’t Jim Gibson want you to be able to vote? Shouldn’t Jim Gibson, as a school board member, want to prevent four to five weeks being cut from the school year? Why isn’t that looming disaster his number one priority?
If you want a chance to vote on the decision to have a chance to vote to prevent the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, you must contact our locally elected Sacramento Republicans today.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
To prevent DOOMSDAY, we the people, would have to vote in June to extend existing taxes. Prop 26 passed last November requires four Sacramento Republicans to allow us the vote. Every single NON-Republican is in favor of us giving us the right to vote. NOT ONE SINGLE SACRAMENTO REPUBLICAN AGREES TO LET, WE, THE PEOPLE VOTE.
These DOOMSDAY CUTS will necessitate an additional four to five weeks cut from children’s school year in addition to the one week already lost this school year. Under the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS, all California public school children will have their school “year” reduced to as little as 150 days of schooling next school year.
Do you want that? Does Jim Gibson want that? If not why didn’t he write a Forum demanding that our locally elected Sacramento Republicans give us a right to vote on whether we want DOOMSDAY CUTS or not?
The deadline for getting the four Sacramento Republicans on board is tomorrow, March 10th. If the deadline passes, you will not be able to vote to extend our current taxes to prevent the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS. Wouldn’t you like a chance to vote? Shouldn’t Jim Gibson want you to be able to vote? Shouldn’t Jim Gibson, as a school board member, want to prevent four to five weeks being cut from the school year? Why isn’t that looming disaster his number one priority?
If you want a chance to vote on the decision to have a chance to vote to prevent the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, you must contact our locally elected Sacramento Republicans today.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
Jan O'Reilly was paid for doing no work--ANTIs charge
Here is the latest attack on our FACT based public schools in Vista by our ANTI public education friends:
The Sky Is Falling said on: March 9, 2011, 8:05 am
Oh con no more you know Jan O'Reilly was paid for not actually working and they most certainly owe the VUSB(sic) and the students a hefty amount of cash.
One wonders why thou protests so loudly?
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_cb64a697-4aa2-596c-b27e-80cff96e00d9.html?mode=comments
In regards to that post by "The Sky Is Falling" on March 9, 2011 at 8:05 am:
Not only was the former VTA president paid for working, she had to turn in a time sheet to the district documenting her daily work schedule down to the minute. No time sheet, no pay.
You should also know that the VTA office where she worked was used on a number of occasion by the school district to conduct school district not VTA business. The VTA charged no fee to the district for this service. This service was of substantial benefit to the district as there are often no venues to meet available at the district office. So having access to the large room at the VTA office just down the street was extremely convenient for district administration. It saved money by not having to rent a room at an outside location--just one more service the VTA provided GRATIS for our school district.
By the way, at no time did Jan O'Reilly or any other VTA president work on political matters either during duty hours or after. All election and other political work was done by the Political Action Committee of which the president was not allowed to be a member by VTA bylaws.
The nature of most of the work of a VTA president is about trying to resolve contract disputes and employee discipline issues without costly legal proceeding, also saving the district money.
Of course a VTA president's work is not the issue here. The issue is Jim Gibson claim that the fine teachers of VUSD owe money to our school district. That claim is false. That claim is the issue, not the VTA president's work day.
Great ears you have if you can hear me protesting "so loudly" through the internet. By the way the Shakespeare quote you mangled is from Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
The Sky Is Falling said on: March 9, 2011, 8:05 am
Oh con no more you know Jan O'Reilly was paid for not actually working and they most certainly owe the VUSB(sic) and the students a hefty amount of cash.
One wonders why thou protests so loudly?
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_cb64a697-4aa2-596c-b27e-80cff96e00d9.html?mode=comments
In regards to that post by "The Sky Is Falling" on March 9, 2011 at 8:05 am:
Not only was the former VTA president paid for working, she had to turn in a time sheet to the district documenting her daily work schedule down to the minute. No time sheet, no pay.
You should also know that the VTA office where she worked was used on a number of occasion by the school district to conduct school district not VTA business. The VTA charged no fee to the district for this service. This service was of substantial benefit to the district as there are often no venues to meet available at the district office. So having access to the large room at the VTA office just down the street was extremely convenient for district administration. It saved money by not having to rent a room at an outside location--just one more service the VTA provided GRATIS for our school district.
By the way, at no time did Jan O'Reilly or any other VTA president work on political matters either during duty hours or after. All election and other political work was done by the Political Action Committee of which the president was not allowed to be a member by VTA bylaws.
The nature of most of the work of a VTA president is about trying to resolve contract disputes and employee discipline issues without costly legal proceeding, also saving the district money.
Of course a VTA president's work is not the issue here. The issue is Jim Gibson claim that the fine teachers of VUSD owe money to our school district. That claim is false. That claim is the issue, not the VTA president's work day.
Great ears you have if you can hear me protesting "so loudly" through the internet. By the way the Shakespeare quote you mangled is from Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Jim Gibson climbs on his high horse again
Jimmy is back!!! The North County Times has provided him space for our very own backwards land school board member, Jim Gibson, to spin his yarns again. This time in an opinion piece labeled, "FORUM: Vista Teachers Association should pay back students"
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_cb64a697-4aa2-596c-b27e-80cff96e00d9.html?mode=story
The Vista Teachers owe no money to Vista Unified School District. Nothing, nada, zilch. And Jim Gibson knows that. He is just grandstanding for political attention again.
Remember his Carrie Prejean Day?
Remember when he urged our district to support Prop 8 that had nothing to do with Vista Education?
Remember when he ran for Diane Harkey's state assembly seat? Or when he ran for Oceanside City Council?
Look at any article by the North County Times about Vista Unified in the last ten years, he has more than five times as many newspaper quotes as any other single VUSD trustee and almost twice as many as the other four combined. Why his he so determined to get his name in the paper?
The issue that Gibson is referring to today is a provision in the teacher's contract that was agreed to by our Vista Unified School District school board and nearly one hundred other large school districts school boards across our state--a release time president.
For VUSD, there was no additional cost to the district for agreeing to a release time president. With the president in the classroom or out of it, the payroll was the same. The only additional cost was the cost of the replacement teacher. The VTA paid MORE than that cost.
What Jim Gibson wants is for the VTA to subsidize VUSD for an additional amount. Every teacher in the district would have to pay a special tax. That is not fair. I am sure the courts will agree with me, what Gibson wants is not fair. It is not fair here or in any of the nearly hundred other California districts that have a similar agreement with their teacher's associations.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_cb64a697-4aa2-596c-b27e-80cff96e00d9.html?mode=story
The Vista Teachers owe no money to Vista Unified School District. Nothing, nada, zilch. And Jim Gibson knows that. He is just grandstanding for political attention again.
Remember his Carrie Prejean Day?
Remember when he urged our district to support Prop 8 that had nothing to do with Vista Education?
Remember when he ran for Diane Harkey's state assembly seat? Or when he ran for Oceanside City Council?
Look at any article by the North County Times about Vista Unified in the last ten years, he has more than five times as many newspaper quotes as any other single VUSD trustee and almost twice as many as the other four combined. Why his he so determined to get his name in the paper?
The issue that Gibson is referring to today is a provision in the teacher's contract that was agreed to by our Vista Unified School District school board and nearly one hundred other large school districts school boards across our state--a release time president.
For VUSD, there was no additional cost to the district for agreeing to a release time president. With the president in the classroom or out of it, the payroll was the same. The only additional cost was the cost of the replacement teacher. The VTA paid MORE than that cost.
What Jim Gibson wants is for the VTA to subsidize VUSD for an additional amount. Every teacher in the district would have to pay a special tax. That is not fair. I am sure the courts will agree with me, what Gibson wants is not fair. It is not fair here or in any of the nearly hundred other California districts that have a similar agreement with their teacher's associations.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Thanks Tania Bowman, Peter Principe, and Robert Bosak for three great letters to editor. GO UNIONS!
The following three fine letters to the editor were found in today's North County Times--the most anti union newspaper in our county. Congrats to all three brave defenders of unions and the American middle class.
Teachers aren't to blame for policies of administrators
When the auto industry was told to change its ways, they consequently resurfaced successfully. Although they got union concessions, it wasn't the line worker who needed to change — they simply built what they were told to build.
In the very same way, teachers should not be blamed for the decisions that administrators and school boards make. Teachers are the line workers in education, and for years, they have been told what and how to teach. If you want educational reform, hold those who have the power accountable for the decisions they make — the administrators and the school boards.
The issue is not the unions, the issue is: Who should you hold responsible for failing policies — the teachers who implement or the administrators and the boards who dictate those policies?
Tania Bowman
Escondido
TV folks blasting unions also belong to them
So now union teachers are the reason for our country's economic woes. Seems like a year or so ago, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and gang were telling us union autoworkers were to blame for killing the American auto industry. Management shared none of the blame. Nope, according to Fox and others on the ignorant right, it was the fault of union autoworkers. Now it's the fault of union teachers.
Do members of the ignorant right know, when they watch/listen to O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter or others on conservative radio/TV, that they are listening to a happy union member (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)? The talking heads and the people who do their hair/makeup, operate cameras, control sound/lights, write scripts, build sets, brew coffee and clean Glenn Beck's chalkboard are all enjoying the benefits of belonging to a union.
So the message that conservative TV/radio wants us to know is that while belonging to a union is very good for them, it's very bad for the rest of us. More hypocrisy from the ingorant right.
So remember to look for the union label while listening to your favorite conservative talking head.
Peter Principe
San Marcos
Tired of union slamming
I'm so tired of hearing all this union slamming, and quite frankly, it's scary. I agree there is room for reform, but if you believe unions are no longer necessary, you are greatly mistaken.
Just look at corporate America's recent history, and it doesn't take a genius long to realize greed is their motivation. So if you believe that without union protection, corporate America will treat you fairly, you're a bigger idiot than I thought.
Without labor's collective bargaining ability, middle-class America would soon disappear. Wake up, America, before it's too late.
Robert Bosak
San Marcos
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_bf4bc4e3-5b52-5268-a9bf-20656a73f31f.html
Teachers aren't to blame for policies of administrators
When the auto industry was told to change its ways, they consequently resurfaced successfully. Although they got union concessions, it wasn't the line worker who needed to change — they simply built what they were told to build.
In the very same way, teachers should not be blamed for the decisions that administrators and school boards make. Teachers are the line workers in education, and for years, they have been told what and how to teach. If you want educational reform, hold those who have the power accountable for the decisions they make — the administrators and the school boards.
The issue is not the unions, the issue is: Who should you hold responsible for failing policies — the teachers who implement or the administrators and the boards who dictate those policies?
Tania Bowman
Escondido
TV folks blasting unions also belong to them
So now union teachers are the reason for our country's economic woes. Seems like a year or so ago, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and gang were telling us union autoworkers were to blame for killing the American auto industry. Management shared none of the blame. Nope, according to Fox and others on the ignorant right, it was the fault of union autoworkers. Now it's the fault of union teachers.
Do members of the ignorant right know, when they watch/listen to O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter or others on conservative radio/TV, that they are listening to a happy union member (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)? The talking heads and the people who do their hair/makeup, operate cameras, control sound/lights, write scripts, build sets, brew coffee and clean Glenn Beck's chalkboard are all enjoying the benefits of belonging to a union.
So the message that conservative TV/radio wants us to know is that while belonging to a union is very good for them, it's very bad for the rest of us. More hypocrisy from the ingorant right.
So remember to look for the union label while listening to your favorite conservative talking head.
Peter Principe
San Marcos
Tired of union slamming
I'm so tired of hearing all this union slamming, and quite frankly, it's scary. I agree there is room for reform, but if you believe unions are no longer necessary, you are greatly mistaken.
Just look at corporate America's recent history, and it doesn't take a genius long to realize greed is their motivation. So if you believe that without union protection, corporate America will treat you fairly, you're a bigger idiot than I thought.
Without labor's collective bargaining ability, middle-class America would soon disappear. Wake up, America, before it's too late.
Robert Bosak
San Marcos
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/article_bf4bc4e3-5b52-5268-a9bf-20656a73f31f.html
DOOMSDAY BUDGET WIIL HAPPEN, 15 to 18% SALARY CUTS starting in July!
Governor Jerry Brown announced yesterday that he cannot find enough Republican votes in Sacramento to allow California taxpayers the right to vote to extend our current taxes in order to avoid the absolutely devastating DOOMSDAY BUDGET SCENARIO if we don't. Now there will be no vote in June on extending taxes. No vote. No vote. No vote. No choice. DOOMSDAY will be enacted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110308,0,877221.story
Governor Brown has done everything possible to give Sacramento Republicans political cover to vote to allow, we, the people, to decide whether or not we want tax extensions and severe cuts or the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS. Giving the people the right to decide has been endorsed by many CALIFORNIA business groups who in former times had substantial influence on our Sacramento Republicans, but no more. What Californias think or California business want is no longer the driving force in Sacramento politics.
Here is what the SFChronicle said about Jerry Brown’s successful work with our business community,
“With its support, the San Francisco Chamber joins the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Bay Area Council, the Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA), the California Association of Independent Business (CAIB), and the Central City Association of Los Angeles in supporting Brown's call for a special election. The governor has said it will allow California voters to weigh in on his proposal for $12 billion in budget cuts and five years of tax extensions to help erase the state's $26 billion in red ink.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=84508#ixzz1G1Sw3oTU
Our CALIFORNIA business community no longer has much influence with Sacramento Republicans. They are now controlled by OUT OF STATE interests. Sacramento Republicans caved to the pressure of, international oil barons, the Koch brothers and their machine. The Koch brothers are among the top twenty wealthiest people in the world, but they are kooks. They do not believe in government. They have unlimited wealth to "convince" hired guns "opinion makers" on FOXnotNews and on the AM radio airwaves to propagate their tin foil hat conspiracy theories.
Read more about the Koch brothers attack on America and American values of truth honesty and fairness here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
Cuts limited to severe could only happen if a proposal for existing taxes to be extended were allowed on the June ballot and it passed. Sacramento Republicans say no, they will not even allow it on the June ballot. They have taken your right to vote away from you.
Thanks to the passage of Prop 26 last fall, all legal opinions obtained by the Governor have indicated that it now takes a 2/3rds majority of BOTH houses in Sacramento to put any measure on the ballot that would increase state revenues. Those legal opinions mean that four Republican votes are absolutely necessary to get to the two thirds majority in BOTH houses--the California State Assembly AND the California State Senate.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/03/03greenwire-califs-little-noticed-prop-26-squeaks-through-59912.html
Every single Sacramento Republican has refused to give you the right to have that vote and to make that decision. No Republican dares vote his or her conscience which might be appalled at the cuts to school kids, the poor, the elderly and sick in the DOOMSDAY BUDGET.
The billionaire bullies, aka Koch brothers, financed OUT OF STATE, WASHINGTON lobbyist, Grover Norquist who heads Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist has threatened every Sacramento Republican. With the Koch brothers backing, Norquist has unlimited money to end the political career of any Sacramento Republican who votes to allow, YOU, the taxpayer to decide the fate of our neighbors who happen to be poor, sick, elderly or school kids. Because of Sacramento Republican cowardice the choice has been taken out of your hands. You will not be able to vote.
Without the vote, ONLY a DOOMSDAY BUDGET can be enacted. There is no alternative. Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/04/BASQ1I2M6L.DTL
Hired gun Con man radio, particularly KFI Am 640 afternoon drive, John and Ken are the enforcers behind the drive to stop the vote. John and Ken want to keep their multi-million dollar a year contracts so they support the agenda of those who place ads during their radio "show".
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/04/BASQ1I2M6L.DTL
John and Ken control the actions and votes of hundreds of thousands of CONfused folks who are given no other information except billionaire bully propaganda hour after hour day after day on John and Ken's radio show. Because several key Sacramento Republicans have districts located in the broadcast area of KFI, the broadcast distortions and deception of John and Ken have unique power in our state to stop Republicans with a conscience from giving you the right to vote.
Thanks to the Koch brothers money, John and Ken propaganda and Sacramento Republicans cowardice, the Doomsday budget cuts will be enacted.
Under the DOOMSDAY BUDGET every public school district and every public charter school will be reducing the 2011-2012 school year by an additional four to five weeks on top of the week lost this school year. This will result in an additional 15 to 18% pay cut for every employee of every school district in the state on top of the 6 to 7% cut they took this year.
The unions need to go to the source of power for the con men scam that will give us a doomsday budget--shut down the con men on AM radio. Blockade the radio station parking lots and front doors with protesters until we the majority are allowed on the air with the MAJORITY VIEW.
Today there is ONLY ONE viewpoint heard on our PUBLIC AIRWAYS. The view of the billionaire bullies who place the ads where only their view point is heard. The Koch brothers and other billionaire bullies are determined to eliminate all middle class wages and benefits by eliminating all unions. They have been remarkably successful in their thirty year scorched earth campaign against unions.
However, we, THE PEOPLE, own the PUBLIC airwaves. We must take them back. We must stop the lies. Let's take action today against the hired gun AM con men.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110308,0,877221.story
Governor Brown has done everything possible to give Sacramento Republicans political cover to vote to allow, we, the people, to decide whether or not we want tax extensions and severe cuts or the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS. Giving the people the right to decide has been endorsed by many CALIFORNIA business groups who in former times had substantial influence on our Sacramento Republicans, but no more. What Californias think or California business want is no longer the driving force in Sacramento politics.
Here is what the SFChronicle said about Jerry Brown’s successful work with our business community,
“With its support, the San Francisco Chamber joins the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Bay Area Council, the Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA), the California Association of Independent Business (CAIB), and the Central City Association of Los Angeles in supporting Brown's call for a special election. The governor has said it will allow California voters to weigh in on his proposal for $12 billion in budget cuts and five years of tax extensions to help erase the state's $26 billion in red ink.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=84508#ixzz1G1Sw3oTU
Our CALIFORNIA business community no longer has much influence with Sacramento Republicans. They are now controlled by OUT OF STATE interests. Sacramento Republicans caved to the pressure of, international oil barons, the Koch brothers and their machine. The Koch brothers are among the top twenty wealthiest people in the world, but they are kooks. They do not believe in government. They have unlimited wealth to "convince" hired guns "opinion makers" on FOXnotNews and on the AM radio airwaves to propagate their tin foil hat conspiracy theories.
Read more about the Koch brothers attack on America and American values of truth honesty and fairness here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
Cuts limited to severe could only happen if a proposal for existing taxes to be extended were allowed on the June ballot and it passed. Sacramento Republicans say no, they will not even allow it on the June ballot. They have taken your right to vote away from you.
Thanks to the passage of Prop 26 last fall, all legal opinions obtained by the Governor have indicated that it now takes a 2/3rds majority of BOTH houses in Sacramento to put any measure on the ballot that would increase state revenues. Those legal opinions mean that four Republican votes are absolutely necessary to get to the two thirds majority in BOTH houses--the California State Assembly AND the California State Senate.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/03/03greenwire-califs-little-noticed-prop-26-squeaks-through-59912.html
Every single Sacramento Republican has refused to give you the right to have that vote and to make that decision. No Republican dares vote his or her conscience which might be appalled at the cuts to school kids, the poor, the elderly and sick in the DOOMSDAY BUDGET.
The billionaire bullies, aka Koch brothers, financed OUT OF STATE, WASHINGTON lobbyist, Grover Norquist who heads Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist has threatened every Sacramento Republican. With the Koch brothers backing, Norquist has unlimited money to end the political career of any Sacramento Republican who votes to allow, YOU, the taxpayer to decide the fate of our neighbors who happen to be poor, sick, elderly or school kids. Because of Sacramento Republican cowardice the choice has been taken out of your hands. You will not be able to vote.
Without the vote, ONLY a DOOMSDAY BUDGET can be enacted. There is no alternative. Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/04/BASQ1I2M6L.DTL
Hired gun Con man radio, particularly KFI Am 640 afternoon drive, John and Ken are the enforcers behind the drive to stop the vote. John and Ken want to keep their multi-million dollar a year contracts so they support the agenda of those who place ads during their radio "show".
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/04/BASQ1I2M6L.DTL
John and Ken control the actions and votes of hundreds of thousands of CONfused folks who are given no other information except billionaire bully propaganda hour after hour day after day on John and Ken's radio show. Because several key Sacramento Republicans have districts located in the broadcast area of KFI, the broadcast distortions and deception of John and Ken have unique power in our state to stop Republicans with a conscience from giving you the right to vote.
Thanks to the Koch brothers money, John and Ken propaganda and Sacramento Republicans cowardice, the Doomsday budget cuts will be enacted.
Under the DOOMSDAY BUDGET every public school district and every public charter school will be reducing the 2011-2012 school year by an additional four to five weeks on top of the week lost this school year. This will result in an additional 15 to 18% pay cut for every employee of every school district in the state on top of the 6 to 7% cut they took this year.
The unions need to go to the source of power for the con men scam that will give us a doomsday budget--shut down the con men on AM radio. Blockade the radio station parking lots and front doors with protesters until we the majority are allowed on the air with the MAJORITY VIEW.
Today there is ONLY ONE viewpoint heard on our PUBLIC AIRWAYS. The view of the billionaire bullies who place the ads where only their view point is heard. The Koch brothers and other billionaire bullies are determined to eliminate all middle class wages and benefits by eliminating all unions. They have been remarkably successful in their thirty year scorched earth campaign against unions.
However, we, THE PEOPLE, own the PUBLIC airwaves. We must take them back. We must stop the lies. Let's take action today against the hired gun AM con men.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Jerry Brown tries to stop DOOMSDAY BUDGET, gains political cover for Sacramento Repubs
Governor Jerry Brown is doing all that he can to find four Republicans that will allow you the voter to decide whether there will just be dramatic and drastic cuts to public education or whether there will be DOOMSDAY CUTS that the Sacramento Republicans are demanding.
Under the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS public schools throughout California will have to fire hundreds of thousands of teachers and raise class sizes from the mid thirties to mid forties or fifties students per classroom teacher per hour of the day.
But that is not the worst. It looks like DOOMSDAY demanded by Sacramento Republicans will cut one full month off the school year and cut the pay of every non RIF-ed teacher by an additional at least ten percent on top of this years salary cuts of 4 to 6%. (RIF means Reduction In Force, it is the term given to teachers fired because of budget cuts)
Making 50K a year as a teacher this year? Next year, under the DOOMSDAY scenario, you will make less than 45K before taxes plus you will also have more cost for medical and dental plans. Thank an elected Sacramento Republican the next time you see one. Better call one right now. The previous post on this blog has a list of our four locally elected, evil Sacramento Republicans plus their phone numbers.
(NOTE: Not all Republicans are evil monsters who care nothing for sick, elderly, or school children. I am a registered Republican, but Republicans like me have no voice in our party now that hired gun radio con men and FOX News runs the agenda for our party.)
Jerry Brown is trying his best to stop the DOOMSDAY scenario from playing out, but because of our archaic 2/3rds state requirement for ballot measures, he will need four Sacramento Republicans to vote in favor of the tax extension initiative being allowed on the June ballot for a vote of the people. If the initiative does get on the June ballot and it passes, it will stop DOOMSDAY.
But it probably won't get on the ballot because our Sacramento Republicans are afraid of the state voters. They are so afraid that they are refusing to let the initiative on the ballot in June. If they succeed in keeping the initiative off the ballot, then DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS will come automatically starting July 1st, 2011. That's right. Four months from now is DOOMSDAY if Sacramento Republicans get their way.
Read what Governor Brown is doing to stop DOOMSDAY in this SF Chronicle article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F03%2F04%2FBALQ1I4G2C.DTL
Notice that the Anti-Union North County Times has printed NO MENTION of looming danger of DOOMSDAY CUTS. The paper rants about public pensions with front page headlines. Day after day they blame teachers, fireman and police for the Great Recession that caused the state budget deficit.
The Great Recession as every informed person knows was really caused by New York fat cat Bankers who gamed our financial system with derivatives created under Bush era deregulation scam. But not only does our North County Times improperly blame dedicated public servants for budget shortfalls caused by the Great Recession, the paper doesn't even mention our locally elected Sacramento Republicans laughing and celebrating at their ability to force a DOOMSDAY SCENARIO on our state's children, NOT ONE WORD!
Any where else in the state and any other time in history, newspapers would have covered the danger of DOOMSDAY on the front page. Not today, and not the North County Times.
Thank goodness for Jerry Brown's success in getting the business community behind allowing the voters to decide. Now if the Sacramento Republicans would listen to their biggest campaign contributors, we will get to vote as a people on whether we truly want DOOMSDAY. We will see allow us to vote or force DOOMSDAY on us all.
Under the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS public schools throughout California will have to fire hundreds of thousands of teachers and raise class sizes from the mid thirties to mid forties or fifties students per classroom teacher per hour of the day.
But that is not the worst. It looks like DOOMSDAY demanded by Sacramento Republicans will cut one full month off the school year and cut the pay of every non RIF-ed teacher by an additional at least ten percent on top of this years salary cuts of 4 to 6%. (RIF means Reduction In Force, it is the term given to teachers fired because of budget cuts)
Making 50K a year as a teacher this year? Next year, under the DOOMSDAY scenario, you will make less than 45K before taxes plus you will also have more cost for medical and dental plans. Thank an elected Sacramento Republican the next time you see one. Better call one right now. The previous post on this blog has a list of our four locally elected, evil Sacramento Republicans plus their phone numbers.
(NOTE: Not all Republicans are evil monsters who care nothing for sick, elderly, or school children. I am a registered Republican, but Republicans like me have no voice in our party now that hired gun radio con men and FOX News runs the agenda for our party.)
Jerry Brown is trying his best to stop the DOOMSDAY scenario from playing out, but because of our archaic 2/3rds state requirement for ballot measures, he will need four Sacramento Republicans to vote in favor of the tax extension initiative being allowed on the June ballot for a vote of the people. If the initiative does get on the June ballot and it passes, it will stop DOOMSDAY.
But it probably won't get on the ballot because our Sacramento Republicans are afraid of the state voters. They are so afraid that they are refusing to let the initiative on the ballot in June. If they succeed in keeping the initiative off the ballot, then DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS will come automatically starting July 1st, 2011. That's right. Four months from now is DOOMSDAY if Sacramento Republicans get their way.
Read what Governor Brown is doing to stop DOOMSDAY in this SF Chronicle article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F03%2F04%2FBALQ1I4G2C.DTL
Notice that the Anti-Union North County Times has printed NO MENTION of looming danger of DOOMSDAY CUTS. The paper rants about public pensions with front page headlines. Day after day they blame teachers, fireman and police for the Great Recession that caused the state budget deficit.
The Great Recession as every informed person knows was really caused by New York fat cat Bankers who gamed our financial system with derivatives created under Bush era deregulation scam. But not only does our North County Times improperly blame dedicated public servants for budget shortfalls caused by the Great Recession, the paper doesn't even mention our locally elected Sacramento Republicans laughing and celebrating at their ability to force a DOOMSDAY SCENARIO on our state's children, NOT ONE WORD!
Any where else in the state and any other time in history, newspapers would have covered the danger of DOOMSDAY on the front page. Not today, and not the North County Times.
Thank goodness for Jerry Brown's success in getting the business community behind allowing the voters to decide. Now if the Sacramento Republicans would listen to their biggest campaign contributors, we will get to vote as a people on whether we truly want DOOMSDAY. We will see allow us to vote or force DOOMSDAY on us all.
DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS COMING, because Sacramento Republicans still say, "You can't vote."
An article in the North County times today details the massive cuts to Poway schools under the Governor's proposed budget which will take 6 million from Poway schools if and only if the tax extension proposition passes this June. However, that proposition still has not qualified; so we may not even have a chance to vote on this tax extension proposition that will limit the cuts in Poway to ONLY six million. Our local elected Republicans want cuts to Poway schools of 17 million!
Of course the Governor and rationals in the State Legislature don't want to make even these drastic six million dollar cuts required by the states income problem. However, it would take four Sacramento Republicans to agree to a tax hike of any kind for these 6 million dollar cuts not to be made. Sacramento elected Republicans have said, "No, no, no and Hell No!" to any revenue enhancements to the current state budget.
There are not even four who are willing to add a Sarah Palin gas extraction tax on the international oil companies who pay nothing to extract the limited resource that is our underground California oil. That one tax at the same rate that Sarah Palin signed into law as half term governor of Alaska would raise more than a billion dollars and prevent most education cuts.
Yet stopping that tax and all other taxes or revenue enhancements, is not enough for Sacramento Republican bullies. They are demanding the DOOMSDAY BUDGET which would cut nearly three times as much from local school districts--for Poway that is 17 million dollars instead of six million.
Here is the North County Times article:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/poway/article_bcbb51e7-440a-5e55-a827-111c3a7b6b86.html
The DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts will be far higher than Governor Brown's proposed budget cuts because Sacramento Republicans are preventing the June initiative to extend our existing taxes for five more years.
Our local Sacramento Republicans don't want you to have the right to vote on whether or not you want the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS (17 million dollars just for Poway) versus the drastic six million Poway will lose in Governor Brown's current budget proposal.
The Sacramento Republicans are afraid you will vote for the tax extensions in June that will stop the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, so they are denying you that right to vote.
If they allowed you to vote, the cuts might be only that 6 million from Poway schools, not good enough for the Sacramento Republicans. Fact based public education in Poway might survive cuts of only six million.
Because of our archaic 2/3rds majority rules in California, rationals have to get four Sacramento Republicans to allow us to have a vote. The evil Sacramento Republicans won't budge, not even one of them wants you to have that right to vote in June.
Governor Brown has offered them concessions like reduction in business tax and still NOT ONE Sacramento Republican will vote to allow you the right to decide. They don't think you are smart enough to decide for your selves.
Brown's concessions here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110112,0,221854.story
The deadline to put the measure on the ballot is this Wednesday, March 10th. If just four Republicans change their minds and allow a vote on or before that day, we get to decide. If not, they decide for us--the DOOMSDAY CUTS will be made--100s of thousands of teachers laid off(statewide), class sizes into the fifties, and the end of effective public school education in California.
If you think you deserve the right to a vote before these doomsday cuts have to be made, call all of the local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
More info found here: http://www.educateourstate.org/
Educate our State is an organization founded and run by parents of public school children in our fine FACT based traditional public schools and public school charters.
Of course the Governor and rationals in the State Legislature don't want to make even these drastic six million dollar cuts required by the states income problem. However, it would take four Sacramento Republicans to agree to a tax hike of any kind for these 6 million dollar cuts not to be made. Sacramento elected Republicans have said, "No, no, no and Hell No!" to any revenue enhancements to the current state budget.
There are not even four who are willing to add a Sarah Palin gas extraction tax on the international oil companies who pay nothing to extract the limited resource that is our underground California oil. That one tax at the same rate that Sarah Palin signed into law as half term governor of Alaska would raise more than a billion dollars and prevent most education cuts.
Yet stopping that tax and all other taxes or revenue enhancements, is not enough for Sacramento Republican bullies. They are demanding the DOOMSDAY BUDGET which would cut nearly three times as much from local school districts--for Poway that is 17 million dollars instead of six million.
Here is the North County Times article:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/poway/article_bcbb51e7-440a-5e55-a827-111c3a7b6b86.html
The DOOMSDAY BUDGET cuts will be far higher than Governor Brown's proposed budget cuts because Sacramento Republicans are preventing the June initiative to extend our existing taxes for five more years.
Our local Sacramento Republicans don't want you to have the right to vote on whether or not you want the DOOMSDAY BUDGET CUTS (17 million dollars just for Poway) versus the drastic six million Poway will lose in Governor Brown's current budget proposal.
The Sacramento Republicans are afraid you will vote for the tax extensions in June that will stop the DOOMSDAY BUDGET, so they are denying you that right to vote.
If they allowed you to vote, the cuts might be only that 6 million from Poway schools, not good enough for the Sacramento Republicans. Fact based public education in Poway might survive cuts of only six million.
Because of our archaic 2/3rds majority rules in California, rationals have to get four Sacramento Republicans to allow us to have a vote. The evil Sacramento Republicans won't budge, not even one of them wants you to have that right to vote in June.
Governor Brown has offered them concessions like reduction in business tax and still NOT ONE Sacramento Republican will vote to allow you the right to decide. They don't think you are smart enough to decide for your selves.
Brown's concessions here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110112,0,221854.story
The deadline to put the measure on the ballot is this Wednesday, March 10th. If just four Republicans change their minds and allow a vote on or before that day, we get to decide. If not, they decide for us--the DOOMSDAY CUTS will be made--100s of thousands of teachers laid off(statewide), class sizes into the fifties, and the end of effective public school education in California.
If you think you deserve the right to a vote before these doomsday cuts have to be made, call all of the local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.
OUR LOCAL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICANS:
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
More info found here: http://www.educateourstate.org/
Educate our State is an organization founded and run by parents of public school children in our fine FACT based traditional public schools and public school charters.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Support Wisconsin! Fight the Attack on Middle Class Jobs and Benefits
You can help the working men and women of America win a fight against billionaire bullies and the corporations they control and use to diminish our ability to make a living.
How?
Contribute to the fight in Wisconsin.
We can stop the bullies. We can get our middle class wages and benefits back but first we must finally win a battle. It looks like we will lose to the bullies here in California. Doomsday cuts to our public schools are all but certain because the Republican bullies in Sacramento will not allow the voters a chance to vote to stop the Doomsday cuts.*
But the Wisconsin battle is being won. Let's help in that victory. Let's feel good that the billionaire bullies can at last be stopped in their decades long, relentless war on the middle class.
Go to this website to contribute:
http://www.actblue.com/page/waronworkingfamilies?refcode=DFA-2-20-4pm
*(Since it takes a 2/3rds majority in the State Senate AND in the State Assembly for the measure to go on the ballot, the tiny mean spirited Republican remnant left in the state legislature are stopping the people from voting on the cuts.
The Republicans have just barely over one third of the seats. Since no Republican ever goes against the wishes of his party bosses, the hired gun AM radio con men, all vote together as one on each and every important vote. With that lockstep in place, the Republican bullies have the votes to thwart the right of the electorate to be able to vote.
The deadline is still March 10th or no June ballot proposition to allow for tax extensions to stop the Doomsday Budget. It will take four Republican votes, so far there are none.
By the way the hired gun AM conmen who now give the marching orders to all elected Republicans have been given a monopoly of our public airwaves by billionaire bullies who target their advertisement dollars ONLY to those who say what the billionaire bullies want said.
No criticism of Rush Limbaugh is allowed on AM radio. Ever wonder why, when the most blatant lies and aspersions are launched by the tens of thousands daily at our president and at any politician who opposes the agenda of the billionaire bullies?
Listen to AM radio, see if you ever hear criticism either of Rush Limbaugh or of corporations that are bullying workers, taking away their rights or shipping jobs overseas. Now think why that is.
Do we really have a free press in this country anymore? Are all points of view allowed on our public airwaves? If not, why not? The answer is obvious.
Fight back, contribute to Wisconsin!
How?
Contribute to the fight in Wisconsin.
We can stop the bullies. We can get our middle class wages and benefits back but first we must finally win a battle. It looks like we will lose to the bullies here in California. Doomsday cuts to our public schools are all but certain because the Republican bullies in Sacramento will not allow the voters a chance to vote to stop the Doomsday cuts.*
But the Wisconsin battle is being won. Let's help in that victory. Let's feel good that the billionaire bullies can at last be stopped in their decades long, relentless war on the middle class.
Go to this website to contribute:
http://www.actblue.com/page/waronworkingfamilies?refcode=DFA-2-20-4pm
*(Since it takes a 2/3rds majority in the State Senate AND in the State Assembly for the measure to go on the ballot, the tiny mean spirited Republican remnant left in the state legislature are stopping the people from voting on the cuts.
The Republicans have just barely over one third of the seats. Since no Republican ever goes against the wishes of his party bosses, the hired gun AM radio con men, all vote together as one on each and every important vote. With that lockstep in place, the Republican bullies have the votes to thwart the right of the electorate to be able to vote.
The deadline is still March 10th or no June ballot proposition to allow for tax extensions to stop the Doomsday Budget. It will take four Republican votes, so far there are none.
By the way the hired gun AM conmen who now give the marching orders to all elected Republicans have been given a monopoly of our public airwaves by billionaire bullies who target their advertisement dollars ONLY to those who say what the billionaire bullies want said.
No criticism of Rush Limbaugh is allowed on AM radio. Ever wonder why, when the most blatant lies and aspersions are launched by the tens of thousands daily at our president and at any politician who opposes the agenda of the billionaire bullies?
Listen to AM radio, see if you ever hear criticism either of Rush Limbaugh or of corporations that are bullying workers, taking away their rights or shipping jobs overseas. Now think why that is.
Do we really have a free press in this country anymore? Are all points of view allowed on our public airwaves? If not, why not? The answer is obvious.
Fight back, contribute to Wisconsin!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Whoops, I got the deadline wrong. It's March 10th.
Whoops, sorry I got the deadline wrong. It's March 10th. That's four working days, seven calendar days.
http://www.ksro.com/LocalNews/Story.aspx?ID=1371713
Voters of California must get their four Sacramento Republican votes by March 10th or it will be too late to put the tax extension proposition on the June ballot.
Months ago when I first heard there was a time limit to get cooperation to allow a vote of the people, I could not conceive that every one of our Sacramento Republicans would refuse the people their right to vote. That every Republican would force doomsday budget cuts on our state's children on top of the billions already cut.
But here we are. Days away and the moral monstrosity that has become the Sacramento Republican Party members will joyfully go through with the utter devastation and destruction of K-12 California education.
So much for any hope of a bright future for our state.
http://www.ksro.com/LocalNews/Story.aspx?ID=1371713
Voters of California must get their four Sacramento Republican votes by March 10th or it will be too late to put the tax extension proposition on the June ballot.
Months ago when I first heard there was a time limit to get cooperation to allow a vote of the people, I could not conceive that every one of our Sacramento Republicans would refuse the people their right to vote. That every Republican would force doomsday budget cuts on our state's children on top of the billions already cut.
But here we are. Days away and the moral monstrosity that has become the Sacramento Republican Party members will joyfully go through with the utter devastation and destruction of K-12 California education.
So much for any hope of a bright future for our state.
If Republicans refuse to allow a vote, how bad will the July 1st cuts be?
For a sense of how bad the cuts to education and to the ill, elderly, and poor will be if Sacramento Republicans do not allow us our chance to vote here is an excerpt from Educate Our State, a organization of parents of school aged children in California:
__________________________________________________
By Beth Chagonjian
Governor Jerry Brown is lobbying to put an extension of currently existing taxes on the ballot for voter approval. If these taxes are not extended, the Doomsday Cut List will take affect (also known as "Plan B").
What's Plan B? According to the LAO (Legislative Analyst's Office), as reported by California Watch, plan B requires an additional $13.5 billion ($13,505,000,000) in cuts to the California budget.
Make no mistake, all of these cuts are devastating to whatever faction of the public will be affected, but K-12 education would clearly bearing the brunt of pain.
The LAO's* suggested cuts include cuts to the judicial/prison system ($2.612 billion), cuts to the health and social services sector ($1.15 billion), cuts to government and local government (1.796 billion), transportation and resources ($1.65 billion) and higher education (1.056 billion), but it's the cuts to K-12 education (the largest part of the proposed cuts) that really make you gasp. Those proposed cuts are $5.239 billion (or $5,239,000,000) or 38.79% (5.239/13.505) of the entire cuts package.
http://educateourstate.posterous.com/
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If you think you have the right to a vote before these doomsday cuts have to be made, call all of our local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
*The LAO is the Legislative Analyst Office a non partisan part arm of the state legislature that looks only at financial matters relating to the state budget.
__________________________________________________
By Beth Chagonjian
Governor Jerry Brown is lobbying to put an extension of currently existing taxes on the ballot for voter approval. If these taxes are not extended, the Doomsday Cut List will take affect (also known as "Plan B").
What's Plan B? According to the LAO (Legislative Analyst's Office), as reported by California Watch, plan B requires an additional $13.5 billion ($13,505,000,000) in cuts to the California budget.
Make no mistake, all of these cuts are devastating to whatever faction of the public will be affected, but K-12 education would clearly bearing the brunt of pain.
The LAO's* suggested cuts include cuts to the judicial/prison system ($2.612 billion), cuts to the health and social services sector ($1.15 billion), cuts to government and local government (1.796 billion), transportation and resources ($1.65 billion) and higher education (1.056 billion), but it's the cuts to K-12 education (the largest part of the proposed cuts) that really make you gasp. Those proposed cuts are $5.239 billion (or $5,239,000,000) or 38.79% (5.239/13.505) of the entire cuts package.
http://educateourstate.posterous.com/
__________________________
If you think you have the right to a vote before these doomsday cuts have to be made, call all of our local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
*The LAO is the Legislative Analyst Office a non partisan part arm of the state legislature that looks only at financial matters relating to the state budget.
Sacramento Repbulican talking points
Just got off the phone with Nathan Fletcher's office. Once I gave my Vista address, there was no interest in my message as I was out of his district. Then I told him my parents live in his district. So got to hear their talking points:
"Sure Republicans will allow the tax extension to be on the ballot as long as there is also another measure that will make even greater cuts to the state budget on the same ballot."
Gee how very nice of them. We have already had the greatest cuts in services to the poor the elderly, the sick and school children in state history. Now we are facing absolutely crippling cuts starting July 1st of this year, if we are not allowed to vote on the tax extension. So what do Sacramento Republicans say? "Let's cut even more, hee, hee, hee."
They will not allow a tax on oil extraction from California lands. Even Sarah Palin, signed one of those for Alaska. In fact the Palin tax funds the state of Alaska with enough left over to give every state resident thousands of dollars every year.
They do not want any new taxes on the idle rich whose investment income is taxed at much lower rates than your income that you earn by actually working for a living. These are the same filthy rich who have gained so much from Republican policies of tax breaks and opposite to Robin Hood philosophy they transfer wealth from the working class to those with the most money already.
Read more about how well CALIFORNIA super rich are doing here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap-pension-20110224,0,2340994,full.column
George Skelton for the Los Angeles Times writes in the above referenced piece:
The state Franchise Tax Board reports that during the two decades between 1987 and 2008:
Inflation-adjusted incomes of the top 10% of California taxpayers increased by 43%; the top 1% by 81%. Meanwhile, incomes of the lower 60% dropped by around 12%.
The income gap doubled between the top 1% and the average middle-class Californian. In 2008, the top 1% enjoyed 39 times the income of the middle class. In 1987, it was about 19 times.
None of this unfairness bothers the Sacramento Republicans. They have only one mantra that they all chant in unison: CUT! CUT CUT!
"Sure Republicans will allow the tax extension to be on the ballot as long as there is also another measure that will make even greater cuts to the state budget on the same ballot."
Gee how very nice of them. We have already had the greatest cuts in services to the poor the elderly, the sick and school children in state history. Now we are facing absolutely crippling cuts starting July 1st of this year, if we are not allowed to vote on the tax extension. So what do Sacramento Republicans say? "Let's cut even more, hee, hee, hee."
They will not allow a tax on oil extraction from California lands. Even Sarah Palin, signed one of those for Alaska. In fact the Palin tax funds the state of Alaska with enough left over to give every state resident thousands of dollars every year.
They do not want any new taxes on the idle rich whose investment income is taxed at much lower rates than your income that you earn by actually working for a living. These are the same filthy rich who have gained so much from Republican policies of tax breaks and opposite to Robin Hood philosophy they transfer wealth from the working class to those with the most money already.
Read more about how well CALIFORNIA super rich are doing here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap-pension-20110224,0,2340994,full.column
George Skelton for the Los Angeles Times writes in the above referenced piece:
The state Franchise Tax Board reports that during the two decades between 1987 and 2008:
Inflation-adjusted incomes of the top 10% of California taxpayers increased by 43%; the top 1% by 81%. Meanwhile, incomes of the lower 60% dropped by around 12%.
The income gap doubled between the top 1% and the average middle-class Californian. In 2008, the top 1% enjoyed 39 times the income of the middle class. In 1987, it was about 19 times.
None of this unfairness bothers the Sacramento Republicans. They have only one mantra that they all chant in unison: CUT! CUT CUT!
Sacramento Republicans Deny You the Right to Vote
Do you want public school teacher lay offs on a massive scale? Do you want to have class sizes double what you have today? If not, you need to do something right now, call all four of our local elected Sacramento Republicans listed at the bottom of this post immediately. In four days it will be too late. The deadline to put the tax extension vote on the June ballot will pass. The cuts will happen.
Governor Jerry Brown has asked the state legislature to allow the citizens of California to vote on whether they want to have their taxes extended at the same rate as today to stop the greatest cuts in California public education in state history. To put that measure on the ballot, two thirds of both houses must vote to allow its placement. So far every single Sacramento Republican is refusing to allow the voters to decide. They hold a bare one third of the votes enough to stop the election. Governor Brown has offered a host of concessions to Republicans to get the four votes needed to no avail.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110112,0,221854.story
Read more about the cuts to our local schools here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_cef95370-697e-5a7b-ac7f-1e61ada4def6.html
and here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_2d0705f5-7494-5f05-b71d-6074a0400d33.html
As of right now, there will be NO tax extension instead there will the greatest cuts to K-12 education in our state’s history.
A tax extension requires the Sacramento Republicans to allow a vote of the people and the Sacramento Republicans are refusing. They do not trust you, the voters, to make the “right” decision.
www.educateourstate.org
For you to get a chance to vote at least two Republicans in the State Assembly and two more in the State Senate have to vote in favor of letting you have that vote.
So far NOT ONE Republican has agreed to let the voters decide.
Because of California's archaic two thirds majority rules, Republicans can and are stopping the voters from having their chance at the ballot box.
If you love the fact that up to one third of teachers in some districts will be laid off and class sizes will zoom to 50 or 60 kids in a classroom next year. Then do nothing. You will get your wish. Effective fact based public education for all intents and purposes will come to an end in California.
If you think otherwise, call all of our local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
More things you can do from the organization LET US VOTE! Sadly the information below is more than two weeks old, it's too late to write letters.
WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP:
SEND A LETTER, SPREAD THE "LET US VOTE!" MESSAGE
Greetings from the Educate Our State Team,
Over 20,000 letters have been sent to California legislators asking them to "Let Us Vote!" To join the campaign click here.
We are still working hard to spread the "Let Us Vote!" campaign message. Two days ago we were on NBC "Class Action" with Jessica Aguirre talking about the devastating effect of the budget cuts, click here to see the video clip. There is still much to be done by the critical March 10th date. This is where we need your help!
Here are three simple ways you can have an impact on saving education funding:
1) Send a letter to your legislator or letter to the editor here
2) Cut and paste the paragraph below into an email and send it to 10 people
I recently took action with the “Let Us Vote!” campaign and I hope you will, too. Public Education funding will be cut $5 billion without a tax extension set to expire July 1st. This tax extension will only appear on the ballot if 2/3rds of the legislature votes to approve it. Presently we are four votes short of sending this critical ballot measure to the citizens of California. It’s easy and fast to send a letter to your legislators. Please visit www.educateourstate.org and click on the “Let Us Vote!” campaign. California’s 6,000,000 children say “thank you!”
3) “Share” this facebook post with your community
Let Sacramento know - Stop cutting public education funding! Give us the right to vote for our children's future. Take action with "Let Us Vote!" campaign at www.educateourstate.org.
For more information about Educate Our State, a list of our partner organizations and our efforts to unite the voices of Californians in support of K-12 public education and demand real change visit the Educate Our State website at www.educateourstate.org. Follow us on facebook, twitter, purchase a car magnet or consider a donation.
Thanks!
The Educate Our State Team
www.educateourstate.org
Governor Jerry Brown has asked the state legislature to allow the citizens of California to vote on whether they want to have their taxes extended at the same rate as today to stop the greatest cuts in California public education in state history. To put that measure on the ballot, two thirds of both houses must vote to allow its placement. So far every single Sacramento Republican is refusing to allow the voters to decide. They hold a bare one third of the votes enough to stop the election. Governor Brown has offered a host of concessions to Republicans to get the four votes needed to no avail.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-budget-20110112,0,221854.story
Read more about the cuts to our local schools here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_cef95370-697e-5a7b-ac7f-1e61ada4def6.html
and here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/escondido/article_2d0705f5-7494-5f05-b71d-6074a0400d33.html
As of right now, there will be NO tax extension instead there will the greatest cuts to K-12 education in our state’s history.
A tax extension requires the Sacramento Republicans to allow a vote of the people and the Sacramento Republicans are refusing. They do not trust you, the voters, to make the “right” decision.
www.educateourstate.org
For you to get a chance to vote at least two Republicans in the State Assembly and two more in the State Senate have to vote in favor of letting you have that vote.
So far NOT ONE Republican has agreed to let the voters decide.
Because of California's archaic two thirds majority rules, Republicans can and are stopping the voters from having their chance at the ballot box.
If you love the fact that up to one third of teachers in some districts will be laid off and class sizes will zoom to 50 or 60 kids in a classroom next year. Then do nothing. You will get your wish. Effective fact based public education for all intents and purposes will come to an end in California.
If you think otherwise, call all of our local elected Sacramento Republicans and tell them that they can’t take away your right to vote.
California Assembly
Martin Garrick (R) (760)929-7998
Nathan Fletcher (R) (858) 689-6290
Diane Harkey (R) (760) 757-8084
California Senate
Mark Wyland (R) (760) 931-2455 or http://markwyland.com/?p=90
More things you can do from the organization LET US VOTE! Sadly the information below is more than two weeks old, it's too late to write letters.
WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP:
SEND A LETTER, SPREAD THE "LET US VOTE!" MESSAGE
Greetings from the Educate Our State Team,
Over 20,000 letters have been sent to California legislators asking them to "Let Us Vote!" To join the campaign click here.
We are still working hard to spread the "Let Us Vote!" campaign message. Two days ago we were on NBC "Class Action" with Jessica Aguirre talking about the devastating effect of the budget cuts, click here to see the video clip. There is still much to be done by the critical March 10th date. This is where we need your help!
Here are three simple ways you can have an impact on saving education funding:
1) Send a letter to your legislator or letter to the editor here
2) Cut and paste the paragraph below into an email and send it to 10 people
I recently took action with the “Let Us Vote!” campaign and I hope you will, too. Public Education funding will be cut $5 billion without a tax extension set to expire July 1st. This tax extension will only appear on the ballot if 2/3rds of the legislature votes to approve it. Presently we are four votes short of sending this critical ballot measure to the citizens of California. It’s easy and fast to send a letter to your legislators. Please visit www.educateourstate.org and click on the “Let Us Vote!” campaign. California’s 6,000,000 children say “thank you!”
3) “Share” this facebook post with your community
Let Sacramento know - Stop cutting public education funding! Give us the right to vote for our children's future. Take action with "Let Us Vote!" campaign at www.educateourstate.org.
For more information about Educate Our State, a list of our partner organizations and our efforts to unite the voices of Californians in support of K-12 public education and demand real change visit the Educate Our State website at www.educateourstate.org. Follow us on facebook, twitter, purchase a car magnet or consider a donation.
Thanks!
The Educate Our State Team
www.educateourstate.org
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Don Phillips--former VUSD assistant superintendent passes
Sad news. Don Phillips a truly fine man and an excellent administrator here in VUSD as well as other school districts has passed away. The staff and students of VUSD were better for having had an association with him.
Besides being extremely well organized and a genuinely nice person, he had a interest in pottery and ceramics. I imagined him throwing pots at some community college during his retirement years. What a shame that he had so little time to enjoy his retirement from Poway Unified School District where he ended his career.
It is hard to believe that someone as talented, personally nice as well as athletically trim and fit could pass away without ever making it to his 65 birthday.
Read more here:
http://www.pomeradonews.com/article/News/News/Former_PUSD_superintendent_Don_Phillips_dies/33666
Besides being extremely well organized and a genuinely nice person, he had a interest in pottery and ceramics. I imagined him throwing pots at some community college during his retirement years. What a shame that he had so little time to enjoy his retirement from Poway Unified School District where he ended his career.
It is hard to believe that someone as talented, personally nice as well as athletically trim and fit could pass away without ever making it to his 65 birthday.
Read more here:
http://www.pomeradonews.com/article/News/News/Former_PUSD_superintendent_Don_Phillips_dies/33666
Friday, December 3, 2010
District emails--Bales busy work vampires sucks all district planning time from elementary teachers
Did you ever wonder why you have to spend twenty to thirty minutes a day sorting through and answering district email every day? Or why your precious minutes of prep time should be spent on such uselessness instead of what it was meant for, preparing for teaching?
Why can't Bales get a spam filter for email? How are you expected to check your email several times a day when you are teaching class and preparing for class?
All good questions. Sadly no good answers except that Bales et. al. have no idea of how much time email takes, how inefficient it is at reaching everyone in a timely fashion and probably no concern for either as long as their backsides are covered by their multiple email missives.
Elementary teachers are supposed to have some planning time. It is good educational policy to give teachers time to get ready for their classes. Teaching is more effective when teachers have this time to prepare.
In the old days all this district and school office important notices 'crapola' came in our mail boxes. We had sheets of paper that could be gone through in two to five minutes at most. Look--throw away. Look--throw away. Look--save. Boom boom boom, it was done in at most a few minutes with only seconds needed for most notices as most of them have nothing to do with any particular teacher. It was a fast and efficient system.
The current snail slow email system only comes up one at a time. The same info that could be easily dealt with in seconds in paper form takes twenty to thirty minutes of processing when it arrives via district email. Why because we have waiting for the email message to open, dealing with it by answering or eliminating and then checking the next message, etc., etc ad nauseum. Each message taking the better part of a minute to deal with rather than a second or two like a piece of paper would. With twenty to forty email messages that is the better part of an hour lost to district email on most days. Does any one at the district office ask for what good teaching purpose are teachers being forced to waste all this time. Or questions like is this time wasting of benefit to our students? No, no one at the district office ever thinks to ask those questions.
Why does Joyce Bales keep adding more and more busy work like this "check email" requirement to district school teachers already frantically busy days?
Technology can be helpful and a boon to teaching for instance being able to project the information on a single computer screen unto a whole classroom projection screen or technology can damage teacher effectiveness. Bales several times a day "check email" time vampire is the latter.
Why can't Bales get a spam filter for email? How are you expected to check your email several times a day when you are teaching class and preparing for class?
All good questions. Sadly no good answers except that Bales et. al. have no idea of how much time email takes, how inefficient it is at reaching everyone in a timely fashion and probably no concern for either as long as their backsides are covered by their multiple email missives.
Elementary teachers are supposed to have some planning time. It is good educational policy to give teachers time to get ready for their classes. Teaching is more effective when teachers have this time to prepare.
In the old days all this district and school office important notices 'crapola' came in our mail boxes. We had sheets of paper that could be gone through in two to five minutes at most. Look--throw away. Look--throw away. Look--save. Boom boom boom, it was done in at most a few minutes with only seconds needed for most notices as most of them have nothing to do with any particular teacher. It was a fast and efficient system.
The current snail slow email system only comes up one at a time. The same info that could be easily dealt with in seconds in paper form takes twenty to thirty minutes of processing when it arrives via district email. Why because we have waiting for the email message to open, dealing with it by answering or eliminating and then checking the next message, etc., etc ad nauseum. Each message taking the better part of a minute to deal with rather than a second or two like a piece of paper would. With twenty to forty email messages that is the better part of an hour lost to district email on most days. Does any one at the district office ask for what good teaching purpose are teachers being forced to waste all this time. Or questions like is this time wasting of benefit to our students? No, no one at the district office ever thinks to ask those questions.
Why does Joyce Bales keep adding more and more busy work like this "check email" requirement to district school teachers already frantically busy days?
Technology can be helpful and a boon to teaching for instance being able to project the information on a single computer screen unto a whole classroom projection screen or technology can damage teacher effectiveness. Bales several times a day "check email" time vampire is the latter.
Martin Garrick, the man born without a heart given space to brag in the North County Times
Martin Garrick is the person most responsible for the terrible cuts in this year's California state budget for K-12 education, aid to the poor, the elderly and the infirm. He celebrated those cuts while championing massive increases in tuition at our California State colleges and universities. Millions of our most fragile fellow Californians and including neighbors on our street are in far worse financial shape today then they were two years ago largely due to his actions. Yet the editorial staff of the North County Times chose to give him space to brag about his 'accomplishments' in today's newspaper.
Read it here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_3e4580c0-8893-5edb-9ca3-23deb5bb334a.html
Martin Garrick was able to make these massive and unfair cuts by using archaic rules in the California Constitution which required a two thirds vote to pass a state budget and tax increases. Garrick led the rogue gang of Republicans in the state assembly, under his leadership they voted to stop any reasonable fix for the state budget. See him brag about his heartlessness here:
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewVideo/1387
Read about the easy fixes, Garrick and his gang would not allow to be passed here:
http://caltaxreform.org/?p=211
Read other posts about the evil that is Garrick and his gang below:
May 23, 2010--http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2010/05/martin-garricks-gang-directly-caused.html
February 24, 2010--http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-is-responsible-for-california.html
Here is what I, under my nom de guerre--con no more, wrote in the comment section following the "bragfest" self congratulatory slime that the arrogant bully Garrick wrote about himself today in the North County Times:
Read it here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_3e4580c0-8893-5edb-9ca3-23deb5bb334a.html
Martin Garrick was able to make these massive and unfair cuts by using archaic rules in the California Constitution which required a two thirds vote to pass a state budget and tax increases. Garrick led the rogue gang of Republicans in the state assembly, under his leadership they voted to stop any reasonable fix for the state budget. See him brag about his heartlessness here:
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewVideo/1387
Read about the easy fixes, Garrick and his gang would not allow to be passed here:
http://caltaxreform.org/?p=211
Read other posts about the evil that is Garrick and his gang below:
May 23, 2010--http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2010/05/martin-garricks-gang-directly-caused.html
February 24, 2010--http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-is-responsible-for-california.html
Here is what I, under my nom de guerre--con no more, wrote in the comment section following the "bragfest" self congratulatory slime that the arrogant bully Garrick wrote about himself today in the North County Times:
- con no more said on: December 3, 2010, 7:18 am
- Martin Garrick, and the Republican gang he led in Sacramento are directly and almost solely responsible for the fiscal mess in Sacramento.
This Republican gang of vandals in the State Assembly and State Senate caused the massive public school layoffs, cuts to aid to the poor, the infirm and the elderly by refusing any reasonable suggestions for a fix to the California budget funding crises.
If you have a strong stomach you can watch a you tube type video of Martin Garrick acting as an arrogant bully demanding across the board cuts while leading the California Republican Press Conference on May 12th. He is almost gleeful with joy at the thought of the poor getting poorer, the ill becoming sicker, the elderly losing caregivers and school children in larger classes for fewer school days. Those of you who ever supporter this heartless monster should watch the video to see who and what he is.
Here: https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewVideo/1387
There were incredibly easy fixes to the California budget problem that would not affect a single person reading this, but Garrick and his gang would not let those fixes be considered. He used the archaic 2/3rds majority rule needed at the time for the passage of state budget time to force ever more cuts to the neediest of our neighbors--the poor, the elderly and school children.
See easy fixes to the state budget that the immoral monster, Martin Garrick would not allow to be voted on here:
See: http://caltaxreform.org/?p=211
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thomas K. Arnold and the DeceptaCON universe of overpaid California teachers
Today in the North County Times we find yet another CON man out to deceive North County Times readers with the great misdirection con game that con men of every stripe are so famous for. Tell the truth about small unimportant item and hide the greater truth.
Go to a used car dealer and he will point out the beautiful and clean engine in the car without ever telling you that he had the engine steamed cleaned so the oil leaks would not show.
Go to a real estate broker and he will show you a beautiful home without telling you that it is in a slide zone.
Go to the North County Times and their CON men hacks give you 'real' but meaningless statistics that seem to show that unions are always bad. Today Arnold took his lying turn as a con man hack.
Read the deception of Arnold here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/arnold/article_2e16b1b4-8137-5515-85f8-5acdd5ff13e2.html?mode=story
Thomas K. Arnold calls California teachers among the highest paid in the nation. What a con.
Like all good con men Arnold has perfected the misdirection lie.
The real question for any worker is not how much the salary is but how much does the salary buy? Will it cover the cost of housing, medical, and food where the person (teacher) lives? So what does a California teacher salary buy in California? The answer is not much.
Arnold knows that of course but real statistics would inconvenience the CON game he is playing on the readers of the North County Times.
Teacher salaries in California are ranked 44th lowest out of the fifty states when it comes to buying power that is salary compared to cost of living. Read more below:
http://teacherportal.com/salary/California-teacher-salary
"TeacherPortal Salary Comfort Score
44th out of 50 states."
The poor pay and terrible buying power of the average California teacher is not because we live in a poor state or an overly generous state to public schools. Forty five states spend more per person than California does on its schools. Read more below:
"California, the eighth richest state, spends 3.8 percent of per capita income on education, making it the 46th ..."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/backgrounders/school_funding.htm
The above facts do not fit into the CON universe of deception created by the CON men like Arnold. They would rather play inside their own deceptaCON universe where they pretend without truth or facts that public school teachers, fact based public schools, unions of all kinds and the middle class that unions create are all evils that need to be crushed beneath the boot hill of billionaire bullies and their hired gun hacks.
The only question is why does the editorial staff of the North County Times continue to go along with this CON? I have no answer to that question but I do know that I do not have to support their attacks on unions and the middle class that was created by unions.
I have not bought a North County Times newspaper in over ten years. Until they change their editorial stance against unions, I will not buy another one of their papers again. I will read only on line for free without subsidizing their unfair attacks on the middle class.
Go to a used car dealer and he will point out the beautiful and clean engine in the car without ever telling you that he had the engine steamed cleaned so the oil leaks would not show.
Go to a real estate broker and he will show you a beautiful home without telling you that it is in a slide zone.
Go to the North County Times and their CON men hacks give you 'real' but meaningless statistics that seem to show that unions are always bad. Today Arnold took his lying turn as a con man hack.
Read the deception of Arnold here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/arnold/article_2e16b1b4-8137-5515-85f8-5acdd5ff13e2.html?mode=story
Thomas K. Arnold calls California teachers among the highest paid in the nation. What a con.
Like all good con men Arnold has perfected the misdirection lie.
The real question for any worker is not how much the salary is but how much does the salary buy? Will it cover the cost of housing, medical, and food where the person (teacher) lives? So what does a California teacher salary buy in California? The answer is not much.
Arnold knows that of course but real statistics would inconvenience the CON game he is playing on the readers of the North County Times.
Teacher salaries in California are ranked 44th lowest out of the fifty states when it comes to buying power that is salary compared to cost of living. Read more below:
http://teacherportal.com/salary/California-teacher-salary
"TeacherPortal Salary Comfort Score
44th out of 50 states."
The poor pay and terrible buying power of the average California teacher is not because we live in a poor state or an overly generous state to public schools. Forty five states spend more per person than California does on its schools. Read more below:
"California, the eighth richest state, spends 3.8 percent of per capita income on education, making it the 46th ..."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/backgrounders/school_funding.htm
The above facts do not fit into the CON universe of deception created by the CON men like Arnold. They would rather play inside their own deceptaCON universe where they pretend without truth or facts that public school teachers, fact based public schools, unions of all kinds and the middle class that unions create are all evils that need to be crushed beneath the boot hill of billionaire bullies and their hired gun hacks.
The only question is why does the editorial staff of the North County Times continue to go along with this CON? I have no answer to that question but I do know that I do not have to support their attacks on unions and the middle class that was created by unions.
I have not bought a North County Times newspaper in over ten years. Until they change their editorial stance against unions, I will not buy another one of their papers again. I will read only on line for free without subsidizing their unfair attacks on the middle class.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Jane Swanson, Chuck Rabel, Silvia Peters, Roxy, and Tea Party traitors
I received a comment from a person calling herself Jane Swanson regarding my post on Chuck Rabel who is running for mayor of Vista.
The real Jane Swanson seems like a very reasonable person who writes a nice blog here. Since I know of no way a tea party traitor or one of our anti-public education friends could have used her personal profile, I will assume that the person who posted is Jane Swanson.
The Jane Swanson post made two valid points. One she is correct that I am not one hundred per cent certain that the Chuck Rabel supporter who came to my door was Silvia Peters and two my description of that supporter sounded more unkind than I meant it to. But as to her other points that Silvia is not a member of the Vista Tea Party traitors* or is not the blogger Roxy, I am afraid that person posting as Jane Swanson has been mislead.
The wild 'roxy' posts and the the rants of Silvia Peters at school board and DELAC meetings sound too similar for Silvia not to be the infamous blogger, 'roxy'. Silvia as Roxy has posted over and over about the Oceanside Tea Party traitors. She has written on a past blog post at the North County Times that she had to stop writing because she was on the way to the traitors big Oceanside meet up last summer. She found that meeting more important than writing. In numerous other North County Times posts 'roxy' has invited others to attend the tea party traitors gatherings with her. There is no question the North County Times blogger, 'roxy' is a member of the misguided Tea Party traitors.
Interestingly the posts by 'roxy' use the same phrases and wording that Silvia Peters uses. Both 'roxy' and Silvia Peters make the same wild eyed and unfounded allegations against VUSD and its teachers. Therefore I am quite confident that 'roxy' is Silvia, Silvia is 'roxy.' My confidence approaches one hundred percent on this topic. I am not surprised that Silvia wants to run away from her posts as 'roxy' any reasonable person would.
As to my description of the overweight women who came to my door who physically resembled Silvia in hips and hair, I am sorry if it seemed over the top. I was attempting to paint a word picture and was not thinking about its effect.
Obesity runs in my family. My maternal grandmother, my mother and my sister and one of her daughters have been or are morbidly obese. They have fought a terrible losing battle with weight for most of their lives.
I believe the tendency to become addicted to sugar and fats as well as the tendency for the satiety feedback to short circuited are all genetic. It is not a simple matter of will power. It is not the fault of the overweight person. I do make any moral judgment.
As to the frizzy hair on the precinct walker, it looked just like my sister's hair. In fact the precinct walker who I still believe to have been Silvia Peters looked so much like my sister did twenty years ago that was the first thing I noticed. I thought to myself, 'Hey, there is a women across the street who looks a lot like my sister used to. How weird.'
Again I am not one hundred percent sure that the women precinct walker who came to my door was Silvia, she did not identify herself. However, I still feel quite confident it was Silvia, no matter what Silvia is telling the person calling herself Jane Swanson. The women supporting Chuck Rabel for Mayor who came to my door looked like a dead ringer for Silvia to me.
As to Chuck Rabel, he is a tea party traitor. No loyal patriotic American should vote for him or support him in his efforts. He himself brags on his website that he is endorsed by the Oceanside Tea Party traitors. They are the number one endorsement he lists on his site. Number two is the infamous Jim Gibson who has cost VUSD schools tens of millions of dollars as a school board trustee when he prevented our district from building the third high school on the cheap level primary site in 2002. With endorsements like that it is obvious that no loyal Vistan, no thrifty taxpayer and no patriotic Americans should vote Chuck Rabel.
I recommend Judy Ritter for mayor of Vista based on her long and dedicated experience in city government. I have also met her once and talked on the phone with her--both more than ten years ago. She impressed me then as smart and level headed.
*Members of the Tea Party are traitors to America and the American way of life because they do not support our Constitution which is the basis of our democracy and to which all elected officials must swear allegiance. The tea party traitors would like to repeal much of the Bill of Rights and many other amendments. But worse yet they and their representatives running for national office have on numerous occasions threatened armed rebellion against our country.
We have had one civil war in this country. In four short years, we lost more Americans than in any dozen other wars. Civil wars are brutal. We do not need another. Any one advocating a civil war or armed insurrection is a traitor to the United States and should be dealt with as such. We do not need these tea party traitors elected to any office anywhere.
The real Jane Swanson seems like a very reasonable person who writes a nice blog here. Since I know of no way a tea party traitor or one of our anti-public education friends could have used her personal profile, I will assume that the person who posted is Jane Swanson.
The Jane Swanson post made two valid points. One she is correct that I am not one hundred per cent certain that the Chuck Rabel supporter who came to my door was Silvia Peters and two my description of that supporter sounded more unkind than I meant it to. But as to her other points that Silvia is not a member of the Vista Tea Party traitors* or is not the blogger Roxy, I am afraid that person posting as Jane Swanson has been mislead.
The wild 'roxy' posts and the the rants of Silvia Peters at school board and DELAC meetings sound too similar for Silvia not to be the infamous blogger, 'roxy'. Silvia as Roxy has posted over and over about the Oceanside Tea Party traitors. She has written on a past blog post at the North County Times that she had to stop writing because she was on the way to the traitors big Oceanside meet up last summer. She found that meeting more important than writing. In numerous other North County Times posts 'roxy' has invited others to attend the tea party traitors gatherings with her. There is no question the North County Times blogger, 'roxy' is a member of the misguided Tea Party traitors.
Interestingly the posts by 'roxy' use the same phrases and wording that Silvia Peters uses. Both 'roxy' and Silvia Peters make the same wild eyed and unfounded allegations against VUSD and its teachers. Therefore I am quite confident that 'roxy' is Silvia, Silvia is 'roxy.' My confidence approaches one hundred percent on this topic. I am not surprised that Silvia wants to run away from her posts as 'roxy' any reasonable person would.
As to my description of the overweight women who came to my door who physically resembled Silvia in hips and hair, I am sorry if it seemed over the top. I was attempting to paint a word picture and was not thinking about its effect.
Obesity runs in my family. My maternal grandmother, my mother and my sister and one of her daughters have been or are morbidly obese. They have fought a terrible losing battle with weight for most of their lives.
I believe the tendency to become addicted to sugar and fats as well as the tendency for the satiety feedback to short circuited are all genetic. It is not a simple matter of will power. It is not the fault of the overweight person. I do make any moral judgment.
As to the frizzy hair on the precinct walker, it looked just like my sister's hair. In fact the precinct walker who I still believe to have been Silvia Peters looked so much like my sister did twenty years ago that was the first thing I noticed. I thought to myself, 'Hey, there is a women across the street who looks a lot like my sister used to. How weird.'
Again I am not one hundred percent sure that the women precinct walker who came to my door was Silvia, she did not identify herself. However, I still feel quite confident it was Silvia, no matter what Silvia is telling the person calling herself Jane Swanson. The women supporting Chuck Rabel for Mayor who came to my door looked like a dead ringer for Silvia to me.
As to Chuck Rabel, he is a tea party traitor. No loyal patriotic American should vote for him or support him in his efforts. He himself brags on his website that he is endorsed by the Oceanside Tea Party traitors. They are the number one endorsement he lists on his site. Number two is the infamous Jim Gibson who has cost VUSD schools tens of millions of dollars as a school board trustee when he prevented our district from building the third high school on the cheap level primary site in 2002. With endorsements like that it is obvious that no loyal Vistan, no thrifty taxpayer and no patriotic Americans should vote Chuck Rabel.
I recommend Judy Ritter for mayor of Vista based on her long and dedicated experience in city government. I have also met her once and talked on the phone with her--both more than ten years ago. She impressed me then as smart and level headed.
*Members of the Tea Party are traitors to America and the American way of life because they do not support our Constitution which is the basis of our democracy and to which all elected officials must swear allegiance. The tea party traitors would like to repeal much of the Bill of Rights and many other amendments. But worse yet they and their representatives running for national office have on numerous occasions threatened armed rebellion against our country.
We have had one civil war in this country. In four short years, we lost more Americans than in any dozen other wars. Civil wars are brutal. We do not need another. Any one advocating a civil war or armed insurrection is a traitor to the United States and should be dealt with as such. We do not need these tea party traitors elected to any office anywhere.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Boycott Netflix, cancel your subscription today!
Netflix founder Reed Hastings is pouring money into the campaign of Larry Aceves for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Aceves wants to fire more teachers, end seniority, reduce union representation of teachers targeted by admin, and cut back the scope of negotiations and bargaining.
Fact based public education Netflix nemesis, Reed Hastings, wants unlimited charter schools as well. He has poured $400,000 into the campaign of Larry Aceves that we know of.
How much more has Hastings given to Aceves through secret funding of third party "hit man" political organizations remains a mystery. Thanks to the last years Roberts Court's clearly unconstitutional and outrageous decision in Citizens United, we will never know. The Citizens United hit on our democracy allows unlimited amounts of SECRET, ANONYMOUS money to be spent in scurrilous "attack ad" campaigns to rid the rich of any politician who will not dance to the tune they are playing. Read more about the historically outrageous decision of the Robert's Court here: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/10/19/citizens-united-before-after-what%E2%80%99s-next/
Aceves clearly is willing to dance to the tune of the filthy rich Reed Hasting. (Why should a single filthy rich person like Hastings have more power to determine a politician's platform in a democracy than you or I?) Aceves has recently changed his reasonable positions during the primary that teachers were hard working "good folks" to his current Netflix position that teachers are scum.
His positions all have changed since the despicable, filthy rich Reed Hastings gave him the 400K campaign contribution. It appears that Aceves is willing to be bought and likes to dance to whatever tune the selfish filthy rich like Hastings want.
Here are Aceves NEW positions since his campaign themes were 'bought' by Netflix founder Reed Hastings. All quotes from today's LATIMES article found here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statesupt-nov-20101026,0,206984.story
(1)"Aceves recently called for curtailing the power of teachers unions and making it easier to fire poorly performing teachers..."
(2) Aceves said, "The law and how the dismissal process is structured needs to be changed at the state level"
(3)"Aceves also criticized traditional seniority protections that result in a "last-hired, first-fired" policy when teachers must be laid off."
(4)"Aceves has been bolstered by support from the Assn. of California School Administrators, which he once headed"
(5)"Aceves has shifted his views on teacher-related matters" since the evil Netflix mogul "Hastings gave him 400K last week."
If you do not think that teachers are scum, then boycott Netflix and write them an email telling them why you are boycotting their product.
Whoops! they have no email address, but they do have a phone number. Here is Netflix customer service number: 1-866-716-0414
Fact based public education Netflix nemesis, Reed Hastings, wants unlimited charter schools as well. He has poured $400,000 into the campaign of Larry Aceves that we know of.
How much more has Hastings given to Aceves through secret funding of third party "hit man" political organizations remains a mystery. Thanks to the last years Roberts Court's clearly unconstitutional and outrageous decision in Citizens United, we will never know. The Citizens United hit on our democracy allows unlimited amounts of SECRET, ANONYMOUS money to be spent in scurrilous "attack ad" campaigns to rid the rich of any politician who will not dance to the tune they are playing. Read more about the historically outrageous decision of the Robert's Court here: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/10/19/citizens-united-before-after-what%E2%80%99s-next/
Aceves clearly is willing to dance to the tune of the filthy rich Reed Hasting. (Why should a single filthy rich person like Hastings have more power to determine a politician's platform in a democracy than you or I?) Aceves has recently changed his reasonable positions during the primary that teachers were hard working "good folks" to his current Netflix position that teachers are scum.
His positions all have changed since the despicable, filthy rich Reed Hastings gave him the 400K campaign contribution. It appears that Aceves is willing to be bought and likes to dance to whatever tune the selfish filthy rich like Hastings want.
Here are Aceves NEW positions since his campaign themes were 'bought' by Netflix founder Reed Hastings. All quotes from today's LATIMES article found here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statesupt-nov-20101026,0,206984.story
(1)"Aceves recently called for curtailing the power of teachers unions and making it easier to fire poorly performing teachers..."
(2) Aceves said, "The law and how the dismissal process is structured needs to be changed at the state level"
(3)"Aceves also criticized traditional seniority protections that result in a "last-hired, first-fired" policy when teachers must be laid off."
(4)"Aceves has been bolstered by support from the Assn. of California School Administrators, which he once headed"
(5)"Aceves has shifted his views on teacher-related matters" since the evil Netflix mogul "Hastings gave him 400K last week."
If you do not think that teachers are scum, then boycott Netflix and write them an email telling them why you are boycotting their product.
Whoops! they have no email address, but they do have a phone number. Here is Netflix customer service number: 1-866-716-0414
Vote: Tom Torlakson for State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Are teachers scum? Are they too lazy to do their jobs? Do we need to fire more teachers and get rid of all seniority? Are teachers jobs too easy and too safe?
Those are the messages of the Republican Party, the billionaire bullies funding the Republicans and the message of AM con men radio and FOX “fooled you again” News. If you agree with those messages don’t vote for Torlakson.
If you think that these pernicious lies being promulgated by the rich in their attack on the last stronghold of rational voters, public school teachers, is a not only immoral, unwarranted and anti-American but just plain wrong, then Torlakson is your candidate.
Torlakson wants more funding for public schools, not less. He thinks you are doing a good job under very difficult circumstances. He is the only candidate in the race with these views.
Read more here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statesupt-nov-20101026,0,206984.story
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