California Struggles as President-Elect Obama Promises Aid to States

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so where were we regarding those huge tax cuts we were envisioning on top of that giant blood sucking wars in the middle east?

slinky of AZ 12:13AM December 21, 2008

Yes, all 211,784 full time state employees are working towards a 90% retirement at age 50. This would mean every last state employee started work at age 20 in either the prison, police or fire protection fields - that's who gets that retirement benefit. If I were dense enough to retire at age 50 after 22 years of state service I would get a whopping 24.2% of my paycheck, and this is the retirement system most state employees signed up for in exchange for making less than they could on the outside. I would then have another twelve years to work at some other job before my reduced social security check kicks in at age 62 after paying into the system to keep your oldsters afloat for almost 43 years. A brilliant plan we state workers must have devised to hose the rest of you, isn't it?

Burn Your Bridges of CA 1:14AM December 17, 2008

The governor's unique pronunciation of
Kaaleeforneeah was supposed to prevent this.
So said the Republicans who elected a terminator/governator, anyway.

of 1:10PM November 26, 2008

What about the 10 billion spent every year on entitlement programs to illegal aliens? What about all these govt. workers retiring at 50 with 90% of pay for life? All the public employee unions and the illegal aliens are driving the state into the ground.

Bill of CA 6:55AM November 26, 2008

This is sureal If the Feds are stupid enough to give Ca anything all that will happen is the Gov employees, and the special interests will get raises, or more giveaways. and next year the employees unions will be negoiating from a bigger pie. and then if in two years they get past the 2/3 block. The state will become unliveable. With only Teachers and Welfare recipents left they can tax each other.

What Happened of CA 8:18PM November 25, 2008