Why California Goes Broke!!

Wow!!

Re: Fraudulent billing of State workers is paid without any oversight, apparently!

This guy billed for more overtime hours than possible:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5772217/Los-Angeles-fire-fighter-raked-300k-overtime-year-1million-four-years.html


I worked for the BLM in Alaska fighting forest fires for almost a decade ('67-'77, minus two years in the Army): and our overtime hours were reviewed over and over.

Incidentally, a dirty little secret known only to those who have fought fires:  many Forest Fires are set by firefighters - and others allowed to rapidly spread - so that Firefighters can get plenty of overtime!!

This latter is most often a late season phenomena when the overall fire season has been lackluster; and some truly evil guys are desperate to make some more money for the season!!

Cheers,
Richard

Tens of Thousands of Homeless in Southern California?

Hey Folks,

Re: My alleged misrepresentation of the startling number of Homeless in America?

 http://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-2018-homeless-count-unfurled-2018-htmlstory.html

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-santa-ana-homeless-unfurled-20180220-htmlstory.html

Photo gallery: Orange County's riverside homeless begin trading tents for motels

By Los Angeles Times Staff Feb 20, 2018 | 5:25 PM

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/homeless-crisis-los-angeles-skid-row-portland-san-diego-seattle/23/



https://www.dailynews.com/2017/09/26/photos-i-am-homeless-gallery/

https://wtop.com/national/2017/12/ap-photos-drugs-rule-skid-row-area-of-downtown-los-angeles/slide/1/

I could post endlessly of the mounting evidence but for now --  I rest my case.

Richard

California ranked as S_ithole State of the Union

Hey Folks,

Re: Disintegration of California into a S_ithole State is Portent for entire USA!

I remember the California of the fifties and the sixties and that California is gone!

Here are several others who say the same thing:

Fabio says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9fNKWudbno

Chuck Woolery says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffmjuWBrag4

Gutfeld says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlqQVTQyvE

Laura Ingraham says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQNzv2Vqm8

Dana Loesch says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTpUYILFjY

This is really sad: I knew - and remember - California of the fifties very well.  I went to K through 4th grade in Modesto and Reno Nevada; I was dragged repeatedly across the California/Nevada State Line by feuding, divorced parents.

From my perspective: all Liberals should be deported from the other 49 States directly to California.

Richard 

Retail Death Spiral Accelerating?

Hey Folks,

Re: Retailers Aren't Closing Down Fast enough?

These days retailers are really getting quite a continual beating; so much so that most of them seem to be on the Darwinian Hit List of the soon to be extinguished and terminated.

I almost feel sorry for anybody in that game.

But they really don't deserve much sympathy given their past arrogance and total ignorance of long-term economic cycles that is the basic cause of the ever dropping aggregate consumer demand that I wrote about on my destroyed Website.  And that demand evaporation was precipitated by the onset of the Kondratieff Super Cycle in 2007/08; for, that is what is now hitting them hard.

I know of these things because I tried to warn so many back in 2005 to 2009; and I talked to many:  and they were just blind to the changing times.   

So, go read the following fairly decent analysis of what ails retail; but of course no one, but no one, references the massive psychological downturn of the consumer's buying patterns caused by the on-going Kondratieff!

 https://www.retaildive.com/news/macys-may-not-be-closing-stores-fast-enough/523348/

"Macy's may not be closing stores 'fast enough'

Author Ben Unglesbee @Ben_RetailDive

PublishedMay 11, 2018

Dive Brief:

"Morgan Stanley analysts suggested Macy's might need to quicken the pace of its store closures and downgraded their estimates for the department store retailer's stock
... ...

"While Macy's has proactively closed stores, ongoing negative store-only comps lead us to question if it is closing them fast enough," ..."

A real Writer: also sees America's decline into a 3rd World S_ithole

Hey Folks,

Re: America's decline into a 3rd World S_ithole!!!???!!!

I am posting this in direct response to those of you who bother me with your stupidly insipid blather and quite simply are just blind and don't get it; i.e. you are oblivious to the obvious all around you!!

And, I note that: 90% of my detractors on this issue are from either the East or the West Coast of this former Christian, Constitutional Republic!!

I don't want to be sued: so, you will have to go to the website of The Nation to read the whole article, which is fairly long with many other prescient observations by this writer, and I very strongly recommend that you do! 

And remember, they delete their stories in only twelve days; so, go subscribe to The Nation as they are one of the very few magazines left, and that publishes some pretty accurately written expose's too!

https://www.thenation.com/article/in-rural-america-the-postal-service-is-already-collapsing/

In Rural America, the Postal Service Is Already Collapsing

Cutbacks have created a labor shortage at smaller stations, and mail carriers are struggling to do their jobs.

By Jake BittleTwitter

May 3, 2018

"As a late-season snow began to fall, Jessica, a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service, sped down a country road in upstate New York toward the next mailbox along her route. ...

... ... ...

"I watched from the back as Jessica steered her car down hilly, unpaved roads, keeping her pace even as hail began to fly through the car’s open windows. She’s one of four mail carriers for a small town a few miles from the Canadian border. The town, and the ones around it, have seen better days: The mills closed decades ago, and the county’s sole remaining factory has threatened multiple times to outsource jobs. Most of the retail in the area is gone too; at the closest mall, about a half an hour away, there are fewer than a dozen stores still open, and the next closest shopping center is a two-hour drive.

"This “retail apocalypse,” brought about by private equity and the rise of e-commerce, has in turn made Amazon even more essential for the people in Jessica’s area; for those who work long hours, have to watch their kids, or can’t spend a fortune on gas, driving two hours to buy a television or new clothes isn’t an option. They have no choice but to shop on the Internet, which means that the back of Jessica’s vehicle is filled with more packages than ever before. The packages would be hard enough on their own, since Jessica often has to get out and trudge through the snow to deliver them, but they’re not the worst of her worries: For upwards of a year, half the positions at Jessica’s postal station were vacant..... ...."
 

Something Weird Go'in On!!

Hey Folks, 

My last post was deleted three times since I originally tried to post it yesterday by parties unknown to me.

Let's see how long it stays up this time?

And for those who have just sent me emails claiming my statements are wrong about all the wonderful illegals in our country who just want to be Americans like everybody else and just want to work??

Start with the following you blind imbeciles!!

 http://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/examples-serious-crimes-illegal-aliens

And I'll try to find some stats on the millions who just end up on the dole, which to them is like Manna from heaven compared to what they had from whence they came! 

I guess I just happen to know a lot more about this than most.


Richard

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