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15 minutes ago, DannyZuco said:

shore up the state coffers and to provide crucial services such as repairing crumbling infrastructure, cleaning up toxic wells and fighting obesity.

I am guessing that it is the government's job to keep people from being obese? Well, it looks like the easiest way to fight obesity in California will be to tax and take everyone's money so they can't afford to eat. That'll slim them down a bit. 

Their slogan should be , “ We’re fighting obesity, One Idiot at a Time!”🤣

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‘Sanctuary City’ Oakland, Near-Broke, Will Use Gas Tax Money to Keep Lights On

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The City of Oakland is in such dire financial straits that it is planning to use $2.9 million from state gas tax revenues to keep the city’s lights on, rather than using the money to fix pothole-riddled roads, for which the funding was intended.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that the city is facing severe financial shortfalls, despite a booming economy that has seen wealthier households relocate from San Francisco across the bay to gentrifying neighborhoods.

The problem is that the city’s costs are rising faster than its growing revenues, thanks partly to pension obligations — an increasingly common challenge for large, Democrat-run cities that made ambitious promises to public sector union

As Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf — famous for tipping off illegal aliens to an impending federal law enforcement sweep, in an effort to defend her “sanctuary city” — noted in her recent budget statement to the city council last week:

Though cranes are rising across the skyline and Oakland’s revenues are growing at a steady rate due to the strong real estate market, the City’s expenses continue to rise faster than revenues. Personnel-related expenses, particularly the cost of medical benefits and pensions – as well as insurance, utilities, and fuel costs – are growing at 2-3 times the rate of inflation and revenue growth.

The deficit for this year will be $25 million. As a result, the Chronicle notes, Oakland — which is generously extending benefits to illegal aliens — can barely keep its street lights on.

To deal with the crisis, the city is shifting money from pothole repair to street lighting, even though the money raised by the 2017 gas tax must be used for transportation.

The Chronicle notes that Oakland’s believes that street lighting qualifies:

Enter the state gas tax.

The mayor is proposing to use the $2.9 million to pay for the street-lighting portion of the shortfall, then use the savings to keep the parks open.

According to Article 19 of the state Constitution, gas tax money is to be used for the “research, planning, construction, improvement, maintenance and operation of public streets and highways (and their related public facilities for nonmotorized traffic).”

Oakland officials feel that gives them the cover to use the tax money to light the streets as well.

The city will still apparently have other funds, both from the gas tax and its own revenues, to use for pothole repair — though less than it would otherwise have had.

Republicans attempted to repeal the gas tax hike in a 2018 ballot initiative, but the state government gave the measure a misleading title. As a result, the measure failed, though polls showed a majority of Californians opposed the hike.

The budget notes that the city will spend $150,000 per year on a legal fund to assist illegal aliens facing deportation.

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8 minutes ago, CarthDawg77 said:

Good....Except rather than realize what everybody has told them about giving freebies out to illegals, those retards will go broke & then want “Uncle Sugar” to replenish their general funds..😡

Yep and I would tell them to go fish

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It’s California.  They are going to take your money one way or another.  Then the idiots are going to vote for them to take their money.  Then they are going to move to Texas.  Then they are going to vote for the same idiots that tried to take their money.  

 

This is Democrat’s typical behavior.  It’s usually insane, out of touch, and with no mathematical reasoning.  

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3 hours ago, TheNameIsDalton said:

California is the last stand of the left wing village idiot.  Everyone else in the country has figured them out.  

The problem is...many states are allowing the village idiots into their states. Look at Colorado, once a bible toting, gun carrying, bastion of freedom...has turned into the next coming of the California nut jobs. I believe that most of the Texans that own most of Colorado are moving towards Wyoming these days. To keep away from the village idiots who escaped Cali. 

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Sure don't make even close to $200 a day in Texas as a substitute. 

Just wondering why the GoFundMe page was stopped? Seems like that could have helped in a big way, in addition to the extra 85 days the teacher could draw from the added sick day account that others give to. Surely school districts have something in place for an out of the ordinary situation like this. 

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2 hours ago, btex said:

For our fulltime subs they get $120 a day (if they have a degree and we only high degreed for that spot), part time get $85. I would say these number vary a great deal across the state. 

A great deal from what I've heard.

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1 hour ago, Golfingnut said:

A great deal from what I've heard.

My wife's district wants everyone to use up their days. That way they can get money back for the district. If a teacher misses more than they have, their daily rate pays the sub and they district docks the teacher's pay for not having the days. So they get to keep around $120 bucks if the teachers daily rate is $200. 

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1 hour ago, DannyZuco said:

My wife's district wants everyone to use up their days. That way they can get money back for the district. If a teacher misses more than they have, their daily rate pays the sub and they district docks the teacher's pay for not having the days. So they get to keep around $120 bucks if the teachers daily rate is $200. 

Crazy

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"If y'all bully my daughter, if you look at her the wrong way, if you breathe the wrong way, send your mom to me," she can be heard saying in the viral clip. "Sisters, aunts, anybody over 18. I’ll (expletive) them all up. Do you understand me?"

The clip is funny as hell.  What I like the most is that she wasn't going to beat the kids down, just their parents and anyone else related to them.

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Authorities Haven't a Clue What to Do About Skyrocketing Homelessness in California
PJ Media ^ | 06/05/2019 | Rick Moran 

Posted on 6/5/2019, 10:19:28 AM by SeekAndFind

 

There is something wonderfully childlike in the inability of California liberals to figure out what to do about the frightening rise in homelessness. If the circumstances were different, you might refer to their naivete, ignorance, and stupidity as endearing, adorable, even cute.

But their utter disconnect from reality has real-world consequences for tens of thousands of people who are victims of their idiotic policies.

National correspondent for the Los Angeles Times Matt Pearce tweeted out the grim statistics:

 

 

 

Spikes in this year’s homeless counts across California:

 

-Los Angeles 🆙 16%

-San Francisco 🆙 17%

-Orange County (since 2017) 🆙 43%

-Ventura, San Bernardino and Kern Counties 🆙 20% or more https://t.co/SFAF8k6slW

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) June 4, 2019

 

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas appears to be perplexed about why there has been a spike in homelessness:

 

“At this point of unprecedented wealth in the county of Los Angeles, we are equally confronted with unprecedented poverty manifesting itself in the form of homelessness,” Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas told The Times.

 

Maybe it's because only the wealthy can afford to live there?

 

 

 

 

 

In a statement, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called the increase in homelessness “heartbreaking,” but said he was he hopeful about the city’s recent work to alleviate the crisis, including an investment of $42 million to respond to public health concerns and intensify street-based services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“This work has never been for the faint of heart, and we cannot let a set of difficult numbers discourage us, or weaken our resolve,” Garcetti said in a statement to The Times.

 

The city has spent billions to try and address the homeless problem proving once again (if proof were needed for anyone but a liberal) that throwing taxpayer money at a problem doesn't solve anything. Also note Garcetti's response to the crisis is to shovel more money into services that benefit residents, but only after they become homeless.

Is that an exaggeration? Surely, you jest:

 

But among others in L.A. County, the point-in-time count crushed the optimism from  last year’s tally, when a modest decrease in homelessness was recorded. The uptick left officials struggling to understand how the tide could have turned so badly in a year when millions of dollars had been spent rolling out new initiatives to move people into shelters and permanent housing.

 

Incredibly, there are thousands of Californians who are homeless despite being gainfully employed.

KQED

 

 2017 survey of the homeless population in San Francisco found 13 percent of respondents reporting part or full-time employment. That’s in a city with an estimated 7,499 people experiencing homelessness.

 

This year, an estimated 10 percent of the 4,990 people living unsheltered in San Diego said they were currently working.

Los Angeles County has more than 50,000 residents who are homeless. Eight percent of adults surveyed in 2017 said they were working to some degree, mostly in part-time, seasonal or temporary work. Among homeless adults with children, 27 percent said they were working either part or full time.

 

If the radical lefties attended a community college course in Capitalism 101, they would be shocked to learn that the reason there are so many homeless people is because of government policies that stifle economic growth and prevent developers from building enough housing units at a reasonable cost.

American Greatness:

 

The burgeoning population of homeless in California, now estimated at  some 150,000 people, is a problem that could be solved in months if the appropriate political and judicial decisions were swiftly enacted and decisively applied. Instead, there is no indication it will ever be solved. The state has become a magnet for the welfare cases of America as well as the expatriates of the world, at the same time as the state has imposed crippling restrictions on the ability of the private sector to build new housing.

 

California is unaffordable because extreme environmentalists have imposed an agenda of engineered scarcity onto state policymakers that, unfortunately, dovetails perfectly with the agenda of special interests—in particular, public sector unions and bureaucrats, and large corporate land developers and construction contractors.

Virtually all of these special interests are aligned with the Democratic Party—the party of greed, lies, envy, and deception, controlled by leftist plutocrats and their willing accomplices. Until California’s voters wake up and break this immoral, self-serving coalition, there is little hope that housing prices in particular, or the cost-of-living in general, will ever come down in California.

 

Until the voters wake up and throw the bums out, there is little that can be done to alleviate the suffering.

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