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May 31, 2012 at 10:55 AM in reply to: My next door neighbor was a cop, still under 60, been retired for more than 5 yrs #744631
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ParticipantI’m not torn. They need to CUT THE BUDGET including CUT THE EMPLOYEE/UNION BENEFITS ESPECIALLY PENSIONS. There, I’m through yelling. Brown is devising all kinds of threats that are devious attempts to coerce us into voting for more taxes. Time for moonbeam to go back to the abbey!!
November 21, 2011 at 5:08 PM in reply to: Excellent Economist Mag. article on CA’s Gov. retiree Pension problems #733327ParticipantSS is a defined benefit program but I paid in a LOT more than I will EVER get out of it, unless I live to be 300 years old. If they touch SS, that is the height of UNFAIR. A problem with SS is it loaned ALL its money to the federal government.
California pensions average $26K per year. Why should they get ANYTHING? They didn’t pay in anywhere near that amount, put them on 401k’s. Why should the TAXPAYER be responsible for paying for something they don’t get at all (pension)? (I ask this to all the people who just kneejerk and say talking about pensions is demonizing and baseless – well please post the FACTS about how well they are funded, please)
ParticipantI was out of the country in 2008 but if you were in Cali at the time you are part of the electorate who approved high speed rail. It’s bonds. It’s a done deal. And the latest numbers are closer to $100 billion, if you can believe that.
ParticipantThis is a great plan. CA Renter can be that one last employee who will pay for all of our CALPERS benefits. Wonderful!
Participant[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=eyePod]Filipinos do not speak Spanish, it’s not worth mentioning, at least not if your talking about 2011.[/quote]
Wrong. My inlaws were trained since elementary school in spanish. They are not fluent but they do know more words than most people living next to the border. In fact many common words that are used in Tagalog are spanish words.
The Tagalog language including the other dialects use plenty spanish however these days english has replaced spanish in schools but there is some much spanish words in the Tagalog language that it will never be replaced.
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Sorry, that is incorrect. The original comment was about what is language #1, 2, and 3 for filipinos. by your definition most native born californians speak spanish, ha ha. So we are talking about reasonable fluency. That doesn’t include loan words, historical yearning, or school study. #2 is definitely English. If you care to show some facts we can discuss.
October 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM in reply to: End Collective Bargaining with Public Unions in CA #731334ParticipantFilipinos do not speak Spanish, it’s not worth mentioning, at least not if your talking about 2011.
ParticipantI for one don’t want to pay higher taxes to continue to pay state workers pensions. That’s just crazy. Also, my point was not “I don’t get a pension so neither should they” (which I didn’t say) although that is a nice way to create a strawman and demonize me. Are you totally out of touch with economics? The private sector discontinued pensions because they could NOT fund them and stay in business. Guess why California is broke? Wake up and smell the coffee.
ParticipantI’m calling bullshit.
For me, my SS represents about 20% of my income at retirement AND I PAID IN A HELL OF A LOT MORE by any rational measure (fact). Why should a calif. employee get 50% – 80% of his income for life (fact), retiring in his 50s (fact)? That’s just a screwed up state government, not anything to be proud of, not anything I want at all in my state. I get NO pension. Why should the people I pay (with taxes) get ANY pension. They should get 401k and SS just like everybody else.August 15, 2011 at 11:08 AM in reply to: OT — Article: “10 Reasons to Skip Expensive Colleges” #720597ParticipantRegarding the state of Calif public colleges (CSU and UC) I’m surprised that in this thread there has not been an outcry. Tuition increase of 60%+ in a few years? Sacramento saying that no taxes have been raised? State workers salaries and pensions not touched. Another example of the productive middle class getting screwed.
August 15, 2011 at 11:08 AM in reply to: OT — Article: “10 Reasons to Skip Expensive Colleges” #719385ParticipantRegarding the state of Calif public colleges (CSU and UC) I’m surprised that in this thread there has not been an outcry. Tuition increase of 60%+ in a few years? Sacramento saying that no taxes have been raised? State workers salaries and pensions not touched. Another example of the productive middle class getting screwed.
August 15, 2011 at 11:08 AM in reply to: OT — Article: “10 Reasons to Skip Expensive Colleges” #719478ParticipantRegarding the state of Calif public colleges (CSU and UC) I’m surprised that in this thread there has not been an outcry. Tuition increase of 60%+ in a few years? Sacramento saying that no taxes have been raised? State workers salaries and pensions not touched. Another example of the productive middle class getting screwed.
August 15, 2011 at 11:08 AM in reply to: OT — Article: “10 Reasons to Skip Expensive Colleges” #720234ParticipantRegarding the state of Calif public colleges (CSU and UC) I’m surprised that in this thread there has not been an outcry. Tuition increase of 60%+ in a few years? Sacramento saying that no taxes have been raised? State workers salaries and pensions not touched. Another example of the productive middle class getting screwed.
August 15, 2011 at 11:08 AM in reply to: OT — Article: “10 Reasons to Skip Expensive Colleges” #720077ParticipantRegarding the state of Calif public colleges (CSU and UC) I’m surprised that in this thread there has not been an outcry. Tuition increase of 60%+ in a few years? Sacramento saying that no taxes have been raised? State workers salaries and pensions not touched. Another example of the productive middle class getting screwed.
ParticipantCognitive wrote “Hopefully, if we are lucky, cascading bank failures ”
You’re still stuck on “banks”. We are talking about the EU and IMF. Should those fail? European central banks?
“Teach” the populations how incompetent they are? Yeah, people will be glad to have their wealth taken from them. Have you been following the demonstrations in Greece? The failure of the government in Portugal? That would be nothing.
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