Public sector union members thoughtfully and politely discuss the possible reduction of their pension benefits with the taxpayers footing the outsized and ever-growing bill. Detroit’s public sector unions are squealing like stuck Irish pigs about their pensions being treated as just another unsecured … Continue reading →
California is raising its minimum wage to $10 an hour. Presently, it is $8 an hour. If a store owner has three part-time employees who are paid minimum wage, and let us say each worker shows up 24 hours a … Continue reading →
While I know it isn’t pretty, people should take a long, hard look at California and begin wondering what our future holds. Let me summarize a few data points: The Proposition 30 tax hike (to the tune of $6B) passed … Continue reading →
These guys are about as good as Wile E. Coyote catching the Road Runner: utter failure while believing the whole time that they are super-geniuses. The early word from the People’s Republic of California is that the so-called “Amazon tax” … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board gets something partially correct today! This editorial lauds the Supreme Court for upholding a Ninth Circuit decision requiring California to remedy intolerable (“cruel and unusual”) prison conditions.* Based on the decision, the conditions inside … Continue reading →
Examples of how California is royally screwed are many. Look at Victor David Hanson’s survey of the central valley, ponder the idiocy of a state-paid food nazi suing McDonalds for her own poor parenting, or just ponder the unionized financial … Continue reading →
Nice take on the woes in California and the future of that state as compared to others. Joel Kotkin, nice job. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future … Continue reading →
Maybe Bradgelina and the rest of the Hollywood A-listers can help with this. Fromt the SFGate: With one in every eight workers unemployed and empty state coffers, California is borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government to pay unemployment … Continue reading →
See, Scotland? This is how you treat a convicted mass murder who is diagnosed with terminal cancer while serving his sentence. You let the evil piece of garbage die in prison, despite her pleas for a charitable early release. Not … Continue reading →
Fans Flock to Mourn California, 1849-2009 LOS ANGELES – Millions of fans from around the globe gathered along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession transported the eccentric superstar state’s remains to … Continue reading →
With plunging tax revenues, California has stated it will issue IOUs to its creditors, including taxpayers. ‘Puter recommends a large Silicon Valley company purchase the IOUs from recipients for pennies on the dollar, then pay its California taxes with the … Continue reading →
The people of California voted today, and evidently Miss California Prejean wins. Why, whoulda thunk it? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia … Continue reading →
¿California o Nueva York? Just like contestants in the old SNL skit unable to determine which Latino star was more manly, ‘Puter’s got no earthly idea as to which state is more massively screwed up. As John Lott notes over … Continue reading →
‘Puter has returned from his cross-country extravaganza to Los Angeles, California. A good time was had by all. The ‘Puter family visited the world headquarters of Vivid Entertainment and Larry Flynt’s enterprise. Actually, we just drove by on our way … Continue reading →
With some help from the politicians. At least that’s what an op-ed piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (of all places) says. But who believes economists from Pepperdine University anyway? Our elected superiors certainly know what they’re doing. ‘Puter welcomes … Continue reading →
So, ‘Puter, bad as New York is*, California, as ever, is on the cutting edge of ways to keep bloated government spending alive. *And somewhere, Arthur Laffer’s loving your lyrics. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept … Continue reading →
Once again, the only three television news networks are promoting a ridiculous trend that, for some reason, they would like to see go national, and therefore spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about it like it is a genuine … Continue reading →
