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		By: The Ted Steele System		</title>
		<link>https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120518</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Ted Steele System]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120510&quot;&gt;SkippingDog&lt;/a&gt;.

Skip-- The Republi-fools NEVER remember inconvenient history! I always enjoy that....

The Ted System]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120510">SkippingDog</a>.</p>
<p>Skip&#8211; The Republi-fools NEVER remember inconvenient history! I always enjoy that&#8230;.</p>
<p>The Ted System</p>
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		By: SkippingDog		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SkippingDog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120472&quot;&gt;SmartMike&lt;/a&gt;.

Actually, it was Dick Cheney who told all of us that deficits and debt don&#039;t matter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120472">SmartMike</a>.</p>
<p>Actually, it was Dick Cheney who told all of us that deficits and debt don&#8217;t matter.</p>
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		By: SmartMike		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SmartMike]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Debt doe not matter. The greatest President in history, King Obama, proves that. All govt pensions and salaries should be increased 50 percent. There would be no adverse impact. Taxes should be increased on business to double down they and their employees serve the state. Police can have little American Flags on their caps for each serf they kill.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Debt doe not matter. The greatest President in history, King Obama, proves that. All govt pensions and salaries should be increased 50 percent. There would be no adverse impact. Taxes should be increased on business to double down they and their employees serve the state. Police can have little American Flags on their caps for each serf they kill.</p>
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		By: Bill G.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill G.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 05:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120463&quot;&gt;A Board chair&lt;/a&gt;.

The grand old actuarial rate of return, which was always 8.0%, dates from an era when the &#039;time value of money&#039; dictated that cash on deposit had to return an amount equal to inflation PLUS extra for the opportunity cost of keeping cash in cash. No longer. In this degraded era of ZIRP and NIRP, the actuarial rate lives on ONLY in defined benefit plans, which are ONLY offered to public employees. Since no money manager other than Madoff can guarantee such a return, the taxpayers are open to having their veins opened to keep the retirees comfy....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120463">A Board chair</a>.</p>
<p>The grand old actuarial rate of return, which was always 8.0%, dates from an era when the &#8216;time value of money&#8217; dictated that cash on deposit had to return an amount equal to inflation PLUS extra for the opportunity cost of keeping cash in cash. No longer. In this degraded era of ZIRP and NIRP, the actuarial rate lives on ONLY in defined benefit plans, which are ONLY offered to public employees. Since no money manager other than Madoff can guarantee such a return, the taxpayers are open to having their veins opened to keep the retirees comfy&#8230;.</p>
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		By: Ted. Mentor to the doomed....		</title>
		<link>https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120468</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted. Mentor to the doomed....]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 05:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, By Golly-- These sound like great suggestions to improve our teacher&#039;s well earned retirements!

Bravo!!!

Post now trolls!!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, By Golly&#8211; These sound like great suggestions to improve our teacher&#8217;s well earned retirements!</p>
<p>Bravo!!!</p>
<p>Post now trolls!!!!</p>
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		By: A Board chair		</title>
		<link>https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120463</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Board chair]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Accounting rules now require districts to show their portion of the deficiency, causing alarm, but the bigger problem is a 7.5% rate of return assumption. Nobody in the financial services industry projects anything close to that.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Accounting rules now require districts to show their portion of the deficiency, causing alarm, but the bigger problem is a 7.5% rate of return assumption. Nobody in the financial services industry projects anything close to that.</p>
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		By: Queeg		</title>
		<link>https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120461</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Queeg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Comrades

Ever try to put on your skinny jeans after weekend after weekend of debachery and gluttony in tacky/miserable Sunset Beach, the Donkey lair.....

Every pension fund out thinks itself by running multiple layered economic/sector computer models created by chubby fingers/waisted-shrimp cocktail sauce stained doomers, globalists, plutocrats, big box store monopolists, xxxl toga wearing publicans and the deplorable slaver tech trinket makers.

The answer is a new Cultural Revolution or old fashion Purge of the entrenched Bozo&#039;s who practice portfolio flagellation at the determinant of unsuspecting teachers and trusting goverment servants of the teaming poor masses.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comrades</p>
<p>Ever try to put on your skinny jeans after weekend after weekend of debachery and gluttony in tacky/miserable Sunset Beach, the Donkey lair&#8230;..</p>
<p>Every pension fund out thinks itself by running multiple layered economic/sector computer models created by chubby fingers/waisted-shrimp cocktail sauce stained doomers, globalists, plutocrats, big box store monopolists, xxxl toga wearing publicans and the deplorable slaver tech trinket makers.</p>
<p>The answer is a new Cultural Revolution or old fashion Purge of the entrenched Bozo&#8217;s who practice portfolio flagellation at the determinant of unsuspecting teachers and trusting goverment servants of the teaming poor masses.</p>
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		By: Dawn Urbanek		</title>
		<link>https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120457</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Urbanek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And just FYI- the California Department of Education has now declared (in direct conflict with state law) that under &quot;Local Control&quot; Districts are no longer required to follow minimum state curriculum standards and curriculum framework. I didn&#039;t believe it until I read it for myself see: http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ccssfaqs.asp
#5

&quot;Every school in California is required to provide instruction in the subjects named above, although physical education is the only subject that has statutorily required minutes of instruction. The schedule of the instructional day and week is determined by the teacher and the local school and district administration.

California is supporting local implementation of the CCSS through resources available to all LEAs, many of which are noted in the Common Core State Standards Systems Implementation Plan for California. While implementation of specific academic content standards is a local decision and not specifically mandated by EC, California strongly recommends their local use&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And just FYI- the California Department of Education has now declared (in direct conflict with state law) that under &#8220;Local Control&#8221; Districts are no longer required to follow minimum state curriculum standards and curriculum framework. I didn&#8217;t believe it until I read it for myself see: <a href="http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ccssfaqs.asp" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ccssfaqs.asp</a><br />
#5</p>
<p>&#8220;Every school in California is required to provide instruction in the subjects named above, although physical education is the only subject that has statutorily required minutes of instruction. The schedule of the instructional day and week is determined by the teacher and the local school and district administration.</p>
<p>California is supporting local implementation of the CCSS through resources available to all LEAs, many of which are noted in the Common Core State Standards Systems Implementation Plan for California. While implementation of specific academic content standards is a local decision and not specifically mandated by EC, California strongly recommends their local use&#8221;</p>
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		By: Dawn Urbanek		</title>
		<link>https://calwatchdog.com/2016/02/05/lao-teacher-pension-fund-risky-complex/#comment-120456</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Urbanek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What the State did was pass the majority of the cost down to already underfunded school districts. In the Capistrano Unified School District our contribution to STRS will represent 10% of the districts total budget. Employee Compensation is at 90% - that means over 100% of our budget will be going to Salaries- pensions and benefits. See June 27, 2016 BOT Meeting Agenda Item #7 Exhibit 7 of 14http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1218998819331/1262503101751/5233370917763515617.pdf  at $7,763 per student- we have to fundraise for art music and science- average class sizes of 40- buildings that have not been maintained for 40 years- this is just the final nail in the coffin. Why don&#039;t we just close public education and pay everyone not to teach]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What the State did was pass the majority of the cost down to already underfunded school districts. In the Capistrano Unified School District our contribution to STRS will represent 10% of the districts total budget. Employee Compensation is at 90% &#8211; that means over 100% of our budget will be going to Salaries- pensions and benefits. See June 27, 2016 BOT Meeting Agenda Item #7 Exhibit 7 of 14http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1218998819331/1262503101751/5233370917763515617.pdf  at $7,763 per student- we have to fundraise for art music and science- average class sizes of 40- buildings that have not been maintained for 40 years- this is just the final nail in the coffin. Why don&#8217;t we just close public education and pay everyone not to teach</p>
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