New Documentary: “Runaway Slave”

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1. Joseph says:

   Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 9:46 pm

   We are turning into the slaves of a bankrupt government.

   And if you want to know why Colliefornia (as Ahnode sez…or is it Caulifornia?) is bankrupt read this unbelievable article.

   But I must warn you, you will be shocked and you may get very upset…

   http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/the-biggest-reason-why-california-is-bankrupt/261524/
2. Joseph says:

   Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 10:45 pm

   And here’s some unbelievable idiocy at the government run youth propaganda camps…er…sorry…public schools…

   http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/119271.html
3. Tina says:

   Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 9:15 am

   Whoa Josephthe Atlantic article, by Conor Friedersdorf, slams Democrat governance with a blockbuster revelation that should make anyone who works in the private sectorand many that work in the public sector and are aware of being raped as a taxpayerVERY ANGRY! Talk about greedno wonder big government hucksters want to shift attention to so-called corporate greed. Hey, corporations get their money from our voluntary purchases of their products. Big, and growing, government sucks up more of every consumers buying power with confiscatory taxes. Big, and growing, government blunts job creation and blunts compensation increases for private sector employees. The whopping statistical reality for California taxpayers is they are footing the bill for An elitist, wealthy public sectora sector that is supposed to be public service oriented:

   http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/the-biggest-reason-why-california-is-bankrupt/261524/

   After crunching some census data, Dan Walters of The Sacramento Bee reports a remarkable figure. In the decade that ended in 2011, California’s state government employed roughly 9.3 percent more people, a number that roughly tracks the increase in population seen in the Golden State.

   You’d think that payroll costs would’ve increased by roughly the same amount.

   Nope.

   Says the newspaper:

   California’s state government had 9.3 percent more employees in 2011 than it did 10 years earlier – closely tracking overall population growth – but its payroll costs had jumped by 42.4 percent, according to a new Census Bureau report.
   Needless to say, California residents are not earning 42.4 percent more than they were just prior to 9/11.

   The details:
   In 2001, the state had the “full-time equivalent” of 372,678 employees and was paying them $1.7 billion a month. By 2011, the FTE’s, as they are dubbed, had increased to 407,321 and payroll costs to $2.4 million billion.

   Over the 10-year span, which included two major recessions separated by a brief period of economic expansion during the housing boom, FTE’s in higher education, the largest single component of the state workforce, increased by 23 percent from 128,665 to 158,229, and prison payrolls, the second largest, jumped by a nearly identical amount — from 48,896 to 60,007.

   Offsetting declines occurred in transportation agencies and state hospitals.

   Says Scott Shackford at Reason, adding context that makes these numbers even more remarkable, “Keep in mind California’s prison population has been dropping since halfway through the decade.”

   Fantastic article!

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