California government workers’ pensions are pretty lavish. Consider this one from San Fran:

New city records show that former Police Chief Heather Fong – who retired in 2009 – received a grand total of $528,595 in her final year….

Now that she’s gone, she’s pulling down an annual pension of $229,500 for life.

Pretty sweet. But consider this pension for a government worker, one that would make even Fong envious:

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is likely the world’s richest man, with an estimated fortune of  $70 billion dollars.

Media reported Monday that Mubarak’s family fortune could be as high as $70 billion, much of it in Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in New York, Los Angeles and London.

The $70 billion dollars would put the 82-year-old comfortably ahead of Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu, worth about $53.5 billion dollars, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the richest American with $53 billion.

Mubarak also has been a government employee funded by U.S. taxpayers. Since 1979, Egypt has been given $2 billion a year in subsidies, or about $64 billion. Thus, almost all of the money given to that country has gone into Mubarak’s retirement account.

While California’s government-worker unions are negotiating about their pensions as the state’s budget deficit worsens, I suggest that talk to old Hosni about how he managed such a great pension for himself. He needs work, so hire him as a consultant.

Of course, in the meantime, they may have to deal with Egyptian-style protests in front of the state capitol objecting to the government-worker ripoffs.

Feb. 14, 2011

First Tunisia. Now Egypt. Next, California. Out-of-touch ruling elites are tumbling everywhere.

Tunisia and Egypt have been ruled by elites in power for decades. Egyptian boss Hosni Mubrarak has been working to set up his son, Gamal, as his successor.  That can’t be California — can it?

Except the Brown Family Dynasty has been running California for decades. Current Gov. Jerry Brown’s father, Pat, was governor five decades ago. And Brown pere became California’s attorney general way back in 1950, when King Farouk (pictured below right) still was monarch of Egypt. Farouk’s dynasty dissolved long ago, but the Brown Dynasty lives on.

Soon, California will have its own revolution against our state Pharaohs. We don’t know what form it will take. But the state has been misgoverned for so long — by Gov. Pete “Tax Increaser” Wilson, Gov. Gray “Tax Increaser” Davis, Gov. Arnold “the Clown Tax Increaser” Schwarzenegger, and Gov. Jerry “Tax Increaser” Brown — that revolution is in the air. Republican or Democrat, it hasn’t made any difference. The oppression just gets worse.

Do we have elections? So does Egypt. In both cases, the elections are farces. In California, the governors — and legislators — promise to balance the budget and promote economic growth and jobs growth, but then do the opposite.

In both places, the government favors the elites while crushing the common people. In California, the elites are the Silicon Valley billionaires now profiting from the jobs-killing AB 32’s ripoffs, and the pampered sector of government workers with their massive pay, perks, pleasures and pensions. We’re just their slaves. Now we’re ready for a slave revolt.

People across the globe finally are sick of being squashed by these favored, bloated elites, and are rebelling in rage against the machine.

California is next.

And as California goes, so goes America.

Here’s a taste of it:

Jan. 28, 2011