Are you suggesting that legislative salaries make up the difference in these shortfalls?
It’s more a matter of feeling the “pain” not having a budget causes. That “pain” might inspire a few handshakes.
Handshakes are irrelevant, because they would be trying to shake hands with them tied behind their backs.
CalPERS has lost “billions” of dollars, according to this article in The Economist.
The State is obligated to make up any shortfall.
The State being ~~~> taxpayers.
The taxpayers, many of whom are facing unemployment or underemployment.
CalPERS has been reluctant (to say the least) to public scrutiny of a $100 MILLION investment loss.
And, while CA state workers are being furloughed …
http://www.sgvtribune.com/opinions/ci_16187453
So, getting back on topic … I am interested in what ideas Meg and Jerry might propose … to fix the Cal PERS mess. It ain’t going to go away.
Meg and Jerry are facing the first of three debates tonight. I wonder if the budget will be mentioned?
I hope so.
The economy is the number one concern of many Californians.
Have you made your decision between these candidates?
If I had to vote today, it would be for Jerry. I have a hard time accepting Meg as anything but an opportunist attempting to buy an elected office. I just don’t feel she’s in tune with the issues facing the average Californian.
I’ll finalize my choice during the three debates though.
Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant, attorney Gloria Allred charges:
After representing Tiger Wood’s whores, Gloria Allred and her clients are suspect.
(Not to mention Gloria’s shameless involvement in the Octomom fiasco)
Gloria Allred has made a career out of representing people who don’t, strictly speaking, need a lawyer. But that is probably no reflection on the veracity of the charges.
What in those cases reflectsmnegatively on Allred’s credibility in terms of the likelihood that her statements are truthful?
Meg Whitman stated that she would ‘Declare War on Public Employee Unions’. Being a member of a Public Employee Union myself, this does not bode well. Its been stated she plans to cut 10% of jobs in California- something to the tune of 40,000 positions :eek: .
As one of the grateful who still has a stable job in this economy, I can’t stand for someone who would want to pull that out underneath me, and stick it to the poor and underprivleged just to give tax cuts to the rich.
She is also going to gut the public education system to prop up UCs…great for those privleged few that can afford to go to college, not so great for the rest who being able to get through High School is a challenge.
Allred has said that, now Meg has denied the charges, she will provide more evidence.
Even assuming that Whitman was telling the truth (hah!) this makes her arrogant and stupid. If your housekeeper suddenly fesses up to being an illegal, and you have to fire her, you damn well had better give her a nice severance bonus. Not doing so makes it seem like she disdains the woman so much that it would never cross her mind that she would go to someone and talk. You’d also want to fess up that you were shocked, shocked to find out that there are such things as undocumented women working as housekeepers.
Oh well, when the election over we can thank her for the $100 million media stimulus fund.
Gloria’s clients tend to tearfully (boo-boo) announce how they have been wronged … only when there are television cameras.
Okay, and that levee they’re lying?
California once upon a time had free college education. People flocked there to get it and many stayed and developed the industries that made Cali what it was. Reagan did not like it. The attack on schools persists. There is too much money in it to allow public schools to succeed. College tuition just leaps past the cost of living rise year after year. It is beyond the reach many .
Enron made California a test tube for gouging customers. it worked so well, that it has spread . We are doomed. The rich want it all.
Whitman has produced the evidence that led her to believe Diaz was legal. When Diaz confessed that she was not, Whitman fired her.
While awaiting further information, such as the evidence that Allred said yesterday she would produce today, my tentative stance is that it seems to me what we have here is a classic case of a disgruntled former employee who is teamed up with a publicity-hound lawyer.
Allred produced the 2003 letter from the Social Security Administration informing Whitman that the SS number Diaz supplied was fraudulent.
Whitman continued to employ Diaz for six years after she was notified that Diaz had suppled a fraudulent SS number.