The following is my Libertarian election guide for 2016. I took a first pass at my ballot and marked what I believed to be most consistent with Libertarian principles. Of the 25 choices, I was able to complete 15 as… Read More ›
California
California Unions Ask You To Save “The Little Guy” – No Not You…Them
I’ve found that in most articles about Big Government, especially in newspapers that are left-leaning, the most important piece of information is in the last paragraph. I don’t think that’s an accident at all…I think many people don’t read entire… Read More ›
You And I Owe California Government Workers $500 Billion (half a trillion!)
More proof that only suckers work in the private sector. Let’s discuss why politicians love to write blank checks from your not-yet-born grandchildren’s bank accounts. Antonio Villaraigosa (formerly Antonio Villar), a former labor union organizer gets elected as the Mayor of… Read More ›
CA Union Employee Pension Costs Up 2,000%
Let me start with some shocking statistics from the Wall Street Journal… “Approximately 85% of the state’s 235,000 employees (not including higher education employees) are unionized. As the governor noted during his $83 billion budget roll-out, over the past decade… Read More ›
Budget Cuts Lead To Attempted Rape
The Butterfly Effect is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. ~Wikipedia Also… Read More ›
Six Miles of Orange County
I’ll be gone for the three day weekend so I did two posts today. This map is from Zillow. The city shown is Orange, CA which is not a high-end part of the OC but it’s not bad either…it’s a… Read More ›
New California Law: You Can Be Fined $1,000 for Underinflated Tires
The insanity never ends. The California Environmental Protection Agency:Air Resources Board (CARB), to save the earth, is going to require all California repair shops to check your tire pressure and inflate your tires to the proper pressure. If this service… Read More ›
Vacation Time – What You Should Know
In prior posts I discussed the abuse of unemployment insurance and my belief that it should be privatized. Today I am discussing employers and their treatment of vacation time. In California, companies are not required to provide vacation time, but… Read More ›
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