Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Back to homepageMamet: Govt. should NOT enslave us
Jan. 27, 2013 By John Seiler I got some pretty good response to my article, “Brown official: You’re our slave.” I was attacking the statement by Gil Duran, Gov. Jerry Brown’s press secretary, “We have to look beyond our personal
Read MoreBrown official: You’re our slave
Jan. 26, 2013 By John Seiler If you listen closely, sometimes government officials tell you what they really think of you. Concerning the controversy over whether golfer Phil Mickelson might leave California because of the massive Proposition 30 tax increase,
Read MoreState government will have to start subsidizing Amtrak soon
Jan. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed Congress and most presidents have long been ridiculously tolerant of Amtrak and its never-ending need for federal aid — the equivalent of massive ongoing annual bailouts. But five years ago, lawmakers actually got a
Read MoreMore cops not only solution to crime
Jan. 14, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — As California’s toughest cities struggle with violent crime, we are hearing a familiar refrain: “Hire more police officers.” While more cops may be the right answer in some places, public officials need
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Prevailing wage scams steal from taxpayers
Jan. 11, 2013 By Katy Grimes In what strange world do janitors get paid $45 per hour? In California, the land of the prevailing wage. The dirty secret is that janitors often are not really getting paid $45 per hour,
Read MoreWSJ: States luring biz from Taxifornia
Jan. 3, 2013 By John Seiler Despite a slight improvement in the unemployment level to a still horrific 9.8 percent in November, California remains a terrible place in which to do business. The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported on how
Read MoreRose Parade runs over taxpayers
Dec. 27, 2012 By John Hrabe The world didn’t end in 2012, but several municipalities did. Four California cities, Stockton, Atwater, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes, declared bankruptcy this year. One financial expert described the problem as “spreading like a
Read MoreNo ‘time out’ for city in rail authority’s cross-hairs
Dec. 21, 2012 By Chris Reed The nervousness is growing in Bakersfield as the California High-Speed Rail Authority moves toward locking into a route that will disrupt the lives of thousands of people — and maybe for no reason. The
Read MoreLockyer anti-gun ideology would hit CA taxpayers
Dec. 18, 2012 By John Seiler America still mourns the victims of the Newtown mass murder. It’s predictable that anti-gun Democratic ideologues would use the tragedy to advance their position — at the expense not only of our Second Amendment
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