Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Back to homepageIzumi criticizes state employee’s cyber-goldbricking
Dec. 13, 2012 By John Seiler A state government employee posted thousands of times on the Sacramento Bee’s Web site during work hours. Taxpayers subsidized his cyber-goldbricking. CBS News just ran a story on it with interviews of Lance Izumi, our
Read MoreCrazy! CA state psych jockey rakes in $822,302
Dec. 12, 2012 By John Seiler All of California is an insane asylum. Bloomberg reports: “Mohammad Safi, a graduate of a medical school in Afghanistan, began working as a psychiatrist at a California mental hospital in 2006, making $90,682 in his first six
Read MoreFree market’s lessons go untaught
Dec. 9, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Advocates for bigger government — which is just about everyone these days, it seems — believe that government is the most efficient and humane provider of goods and services. It’s such a
Read MoreThink taxes are too low?
Dec. 7, 2012 By John Seiler Think taxes are too low? Your politicians do. Expect California’s supermajority Democratic Legislature this year to reduce what they call “tax expenditures” — their euphemism for letting taxpayers/slaves keep a little of their money.
Read MoreFighting crime & overspending
Dec. 2, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — For advocates of less-intrusive government, finding the good news in the recent election is like looking on the bright side after your house has been wiped out by a hurricane: You never
Read MoreWolf for Thanksgiving dinner — a Fairy Tale
Nov. 22, 2012 By Mark Cabaniss Democracy, it has been said, is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Yes, the sheep gets to vote. And yes, in theory he could appeal to one of
Read MoreFirst Cap and Trade auction cuts no pollution for $233 million
Nov. 21, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi In the private sector, success is often likened to “selling lemonade at a track meet.” But in the upside-down public sector, the California Air Resources Board auctioned $233 million of pollution permits on Nov.
Read MoreState injects millions of new patients into ailing Medi-Cal
Nov. 20, 2012 By Dave Roberts California’s Medi-Cal managed care programs have an abysmal track record. So, naturally, state officials are planning to transfer a million more low-income Californians these lowly-rated care programs. On a scale of 1 to 5,
Read MoreCA tax increases fund unaccountable spending machine
Nov. 20, 2012 By Mark Landsbaum On Nov. 6, Californians voted to raise taxes, but weren’t told the whole story. They repeatedly were told their state government was frugal to the point of pain, yet still in dire need of
Read MoreTwinkie Offense: Unions kill off Hostess Brands
Nov. 19, 2012 By Jennifer Kerns They were the Hostess with the mostest. The most labor headaches. Last week Hostess Brands shut its doors after 82 years in business following a food fight with its bakers’ union over wages and
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