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2008-11-13 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2008-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ION RIAN > BARACK OBAMA FOR A COSMOPOLITAN AMERICA. PEW Research Center Report [Feb 2008] > by 2050, America's population will rise to 438Milyuhn, wid 82% of increase coming from foreign immigres from 2005 [base year] and their later US-born natural descandants.

ALso from RIAN > GORBACHEV CALLS FOR OBAMA TO CARRY OUT "PERESTROIKA" [restructuring]INSIDE AMERICA. The era of Reaganism and Thatcherism is over, the USSR is gone, EUrope has changed, and CHINA, BRAZIL, + MEXICO are assertive and desiring to becom new major/decisive players in the global arena.

FORMER RUSS OILGARCH MIKHAIL KHORDORKOSKY > THE PARADIGM OF WORLD/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.......WORLD WILL TAKE A LEFT TURN .....GLOBALIZATION WILL CHANGE, SLOW TO A CRAWL BUT IT WILL NOT STOP. The World's richest people may no longer be able to increase thier wealth as much as desired due to worldwide
"mainstream" consumer-citizen demands for intensive improvements as per their own personal and community wealth, and a higher or better quality-of-life, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-13 01:39|| 2008-11-13 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 A narrow slice of rich Californians now pay virtually all the state's taxes, so when a downturn occurs, the budget collapses.

This is an outright lie. I'm not rich but I do pay a hefty state income tax. It hurts too.

As for Arnold, to be fair, he's up against a liberal Democrat legislature, the California Teachers Association and various state employee unions. Every year they wrangle over the budget until months after the start of the fiscal year. We thought Arnold could do better than Davis but now we see that he can't. Maybe nobody can. My solution would be to dissolve the legislature because they have all lost touch with reality.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-11-13 11:50|| 2008-11-13 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 California has pension problems. The Prison Guards, the Teachers Union, the Firemen and cops as well as a dozen others not only get decent salaries but they have excellent pension benefits and once something like that is given it is very difficult to retract.

The problem is not going away soon.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-13 13:28|| 2008-11-13 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 You are right about that, my father makes more on his police dept. pension than he did when he was working. He's not going to be surprised if they have to trim that back a little in the future.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-13 14:25|| 2008-11-13 14:25|| Front Page Top

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