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California: Union dominance out in the open
Orange County Register (CA)^| July 9, 2009 | Jon Coupal

Posted on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:38:50 AM by Oldeconomybuyer

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California public employees are the highest-paid in all 50 states. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office in Sacramento has rated California the most generous in pension benefits for its employees. These guaranteed pensions are costing taxpayers more each year. The current bill is approaching $5 billion a year.

Government workers still on the job have wonderful security – state employment actually grew in 2008 over the previous year, while the state's overall unemployment rate currently stands at 11.5 percent.

Despite the economy and California's crushing tax burden, government employee unions push for even more taxes – one union is advocating more than $40 billion in new levies. Their agents in the Legislature, who depend so heavily on union campaign contributions, slavishly pursue the union agenda of higher taxes to guarantee job security and escalating compensation for their benefactors.

If there is any silver lining to the current budget crisis, it is that public-employee union dominance over California politics is garnering a lot more public scrutiny. More and more is being written about the undue influence of government unions and the unrealistic compensation packages they are able to extract from state and local governments.

This scrutiny is long overdue.

bottom line? at all levels there is no voter representation, but representation to the unions. the masters and the slaves are those elected to represent US but represent union money.

gun metal blue wrote:

the cause of te money problems
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California: Union dominance out in the open
Orange County Register (CA)^| July 9, 2009 | Jon Coupal
Posted on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:38:50 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California public employees are the highest-paid in all 50 states. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office in Sacramento has rated California the most generous in pension benefits for its employees. These guaranteed pensions are costing taxpayers more each year. The current bill is approaching $5 billion a year.
Government workers still on the job have wonderful security – state employment actually grew in 2008 over the previous year, while the state's overall unemployment rate currently stands at 11.5 percent.
Despite the economy and California's crushing tax burden, government employee unions push for even more taxes – one union is advocating more than $40 billion in new levies. Their agents in the Legislature, who depend so heavily on union campaign contributions, slavishly pursue the union agenda of higher taxes to guarantee job security and escalating compensation for their benefactors.
If there is any silver lining to the current budget crisis, it is that public-employee union dominance over California politics is garnering a lot more public scrutiny. More and more is being written about the undue influence of government unions and the unrealistic compensation packages they are able to extract from state and local governments.
This scrutiny is long overdue.
bottom line? at all levels there is no voter representation, but representation to the unions. the masters and the slaves are those elected to represent US but represent union money.

That pretty much sums it up. Excellent Post!

GunMetalBlue, right on! Very well put!