A city with a $10B/yr budget can’t figure it out? I wonder how many homeless are here illegally? We should let them live with Pelosi and Feinstein, since they are so adamant about letting those people stay in the country.
Fixing problems isn’t what matters. Creating a headline that scores political points with the base is more important. That’s what gets people reelected.
How much a year does CA spend educating the kids of illegal immigrants in public schools? How much is spent on ER visits by illegals? California is literally telling US citizens that it cares more about illegals than it does citizens. If the voters weren’t brainwashed, they’d be smart enough to vote against this non-sense.
“Over the last eight years, we added $100 billion in unfunded retirement liability for these funds. This is the elephant in the room of state finances, and it is time we got serious about it.”
That’s in a bull market and the total is $206B.
“We’re already seeing pension liabilities crowd out other spending. General fund revenues have grown 28 percent over the past six years, but the share available for discretionary spending outside of public safety has declined from 21 percent of the budget to 12 percent. Over the same time frame, spending on pensions increased 99 percent.”
That’s the math when pension liabilities grow faster than tax revenue and inflation.
People wonder why more laws isn’t an effective solution. Unless you’re going to spend massive amounts of money on prisons, there’s no room to house more criminals.
Well, I am really big on big punishments and allowing the public to watch it live on the boob tube. Hey, lil Johnny, thinking about sticking up that candy store? Here, this is what will happen to you if you do. Bingo, urge to stick up that candy store just went away…