Yeah, uh-huh. When have you ever said ANYTHING that wasn’t psycho-babble? You answer will prove my point.

…interest groups have effective control of state and local political systems and they use their power to engage in massive rip-offs of taxpayers. One of the main problems is that there’s a bloated government workforce that gets wildly overcompensated. Here are some staggering examples.

A state nurse getting $331,000 of annual compensation.

A county administrator getting $423,000 pensions.

A state psychiatrist getting $822,000 of annual compensation.

Cops that get $188,000 of annual compensation.

A city manager getting $800,000 of annual compensation.

But overpaid bureaucrats are not the only problem. California politicians are experts at wasting money in other ways, such as the supposedly high-speed rail boondoggle that was supposed to cost $33 billion and now has a price tag of $100 billion.

You may be thinking that I’ve merely provided a handful of anecdotes, so let’s recycle some numbers that I first shared back in 2010.

California state spending has outgrown the state’s tax base by 1.3 percentage points annually for 25 years. Simple arithmetic dictates that in lieu of constant tax increases, this perpetuates a deficit. From 1985 to 2009 state GDP in California grew by 5.5 percent per year, on average (not adjusted for inflation). Annual growth in state spending was 6.8 percent, on average.
CA DOES HAVE MONEY WOES.

From May 2012 to May 2013, total California  overall employment increased by 234,000 jobs. 

From May 2012 to May 2013, California GOVERNMENT jobs DECREASED by 13,000. 

Growth in government?

” I believe that in the last two months the State lost 12,00 and 15,000 jobs (numbers rounded off). This is now a trend.”
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I believe California ADDED 9,800 jobs in April, 2013 and added another 10,800 jobs in May, 2013, according to the Current Employee Statistics.

How is it possible that the number of jobs increased while the number of unemployment claims increased?

The size of the labor force has also been increasing.

According to the BLS, the size of the civilian labor force in California increased by 165,400 from May 2012 to May 2013.

The number of employed Californians has increased by 530,000 in the same period.

The number of “unemployed” DECREASED by 364,000 in the same period.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST06000006?data_tool=XGtable
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“number of layoffs” or “number of unemployment claims” is only half the story.

Nationally, last week there were 346,000 unemployment claims nationwide, but there were 195,000 NEW jobs in June alone.
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Alec Levenson:

the number of people applying for unemployment benefits fluctuates from month to month, and week to week. The high number of unemployment claims earlier this month will not necessarily impact the state’s monthly unemployment rate

But so far, he said the economy is moving in a positive direction.

The glass is at least half full.

The PC term for the democrat party symbol is donkey. I don’t do PC so I call it by it’s colloquial name: “jackass”.

Brevity is the soul of wit. Tell me, which term is more precise in it’s meaning:

Visually challenged or ugly?
Gravitationally challenged or fat?
Mentally challenged or dumb?

I’m originally from that crap hole called LA and you’re absolutely tight. I had the good sense to move out 20 years ago and there isn’t enough money on this planet to get me to move back there.

For Lease and Space Available is becoming the largest land occupiers in LA. The only growing businesses in the city are 99 cent stores, fast food restaurants and Mexicans “entrepreneurs” standing at intersections selling fruits & vegetables, rugs and cheap velvet paintings.