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What, haven't you heard ? "It's a nothing burger."

I expect an in depth analysis regarding at least three thing on his list in 5, 4, 3....

One can only gain so much horsepower, kilowatts, and BTU's from renewable energy. BTU's per hour is critical to keeping a lot of the northern European countries warm during the winter. Solar is not going to help that much in the Nordic countries. Hence, there needs to be more improvement in renewable energy.

The only other way is to influence lifestyle choices and force people to change the way and where they live. Encourage massive movement to urban areas to enable less reliance on individual ownership of gas-burning automobiles.

The above is what probably on the mind of a lot of the global environmentalists.

The modern "conservative" movement (they are anything but) is simply stoking the pre-existing fears and prejudices that exist within American citizens, not to mention taking advantage of the lack of education and dismal attention span that most suffer from.

Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, Trump and his enablers... all of that is only possible because of the complete and total failure of most Americans to pay even the slightest bit of attention to what is going on outside their daily lives, to educate themselves, and to not allow themselves to fall prey to charlatans.

Trump is a threat to national security to be sure. But so are most American citizens. And that is the real problem.

1990s Safe, Legal, and Rare !
2010s Murdering kids as they to cros the birth canal, SHOUT YOUR ABORTION!

Coastal Elitists assuming people are unhappy because the chose to live out in the rural areas as far away from the Shithole Liberal cesspools they can get.

If you're living in a double wide by a creek on your 5 acre of land 20 miles from the nearest Starbucks. Why in the fuck would be an innovator?

Percentage on Food Stamps is Mississippi? Oh really now? Or are we splitting hairs over the per capita nonsense liberals like to play so they don't look as bad as they really are?

Nobody is shitting on the streets in those states, no City in those states have sidewalks littered with dope needles.

Common Core fucked Education up for everyone, so did the commie teachers in Education. I told Ya, we need to vet the Teachers to get the Pedophiles and Commies out.

I wonder what would happen if you only looked at Whites.

Look a happy sign in the most depressed place on Earth. A fly over red state.

You did hear the update to this story in your shallow Liberal world didn't you?

They changed their minds and are staying now.

Tenpoundbass says

They changed their minds and are staying now.

And they will change again. For the Chinese the negotiations begin after the deal is signed. There is no fucking way they will manufacture low/no profit goods in Wisconsin. Only an idiot like Walker and his republican rubes would fall for that.

The lobbying vig just went up.

Nancy is such a cunt.

MAGA says

Nancy is such a cunt.

Gynosaur

The maximum limit or cap on the state and local taxes (SALT) which includes income tax and property tax is $10,000.

" For example, the average SALT deduction taken in New York was more than $21,000 in a recent tax year. "

However, the standard deduction went up significantly, such as to $24,000 for married couples.

I can see this hurting mostly those households in Democrat states making more than $150,000 per year and owning a home worth more than $500,000.

"Thanks to the Trump-Radical Republican tax cut, millions of families in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and other high-tax states will owe thousands to tens of thousands of dollars more in federal income tax for 2018 even if their income was unchanged from 2017."

Sounds like a tax increase on the upper class. The same puds that previously pawned their high state taxes onto those in low tax states.

HEYYOU says

"In addition, millions of residents of blue states are about to get hit with big federal income tax increases

Good! Voted for party which supports higher taxes, get higher taxes and do not whine.

Would seem to me the title of the thread is over the borderline a personal attack.

Is it really necessary to install someone's name as opposed to just indicating how screwed up CalPers is?

Moderator ? Moderator ?

Anyone from Management ?

Agreed. In fact big corporations - not only wealthy individuals - are leaving CA in droves. Charles Schwab, McKesson just to name a few big ones. CA is fucked an cucked, the leftoids destroyed it.

Kakistocracy says

Would seem to me the title of the thread is a personal attack

Yeah leave Marcus out of it.

All of the government promises are as good as the fed that prints them.

mell says

Agreed. In fact big corporations - not only wealthy individuals - are leaving CA in droves. Charles Schwab, McKesson just to name a few big ones. CA is fucked an cucked, the leftoids destroyed it.

Think Apple and Google will ever leave?

mell says

CA is fucked an cucked, the leftoids destroyed it.

Good thing the Patron Saint of the GOP and the Governator had no hand in the demise.

It would definitely be better not to have Patnetters names in titles of posts IMHO.

We have a member named 'Screwed'?

Marcus has indicated he is a public school teacher in California, so I suspect he'd be impacted by matter of CALPERS solvency.

With Governor Gavin "glamour boy" Newsom stating California welcomes any illegal immigrant seeking sanctuary, how will that impact CALPERS ?

Will it take away from the California funding pie (i.e., more money for public schooling and social welfare for children of illegal immigrants, etc.) that would go to funding CALPERS ? Will California require more employee contributions to CALPERS ?

One thing for sure, the stock market based on Shiller PE ratio (and economic cycles) is likely near peak. CALPERS should just put all the money into Vanguard Life Strategy Income Fund (i.e., 30% stocks/70% investment grade bonds) and safely count on about 6% annual return.

AD says

Marcus has indicated he is a public school teacher in California, so I suspect he'd be impacted by matter of CALPERS solvency

No need to put someone's name in the title of a thread that is a forum participant

OccasionalCortex says

could be closer to $360 billion

Over how much time? 60 years?
Or $6 Billions / yr?

Really scary stuff.

HeadSet says

mell says

Agreed. In fact big corporations - not only wealthy individuals - are leaving CA in droves. Charles Schwab, McKesson just to name a few big ones. CA is fucked an cucked, the leftoids destroyed it.

Think Apple and Google will ever leave?

They may be the last if they ever leave because the SV leftoid censorship culture worships their enablers and thus they can get away with anything, for that they gladly pay a little extra for their employees. The free internet died around the time the dot com bubble burst at the beginning of this millenium.

Kakistocracy says

mell says

CA is fucked an cucked, the leftoids destroyed it.

Good thing the Patron Saint of the GOP and the Governator had no hand in the demise.

Schwarzenegger was better than his crony predecessor Davis who is a criminal but overall the terminator has been cucked over the years and is pretty much a neocon somewhere between the nutty left and the Trump Republicans. A regular mainstream GOP guy won't fix the CA mess, they need a Giuliani style intervention by now.

@marcus

Did this OP "Marcus' Pension Just Got Even More Screwed" title actually offend you?

Kakistocracy says

Would seem to me the title of the thread is over the borderline a personal attack.

Is it really necessary to install someone's name as opposed to just indicating how screwed up CalPers is?

Nope... Marcus has claimed he's "entitled" to that pension, so it's factual.

Why do you hate FACTS and the TRUTH?

HeadSet says

Did this OP "Marcus' Pension Just Got Even More Screwed" title actually offend you?

Perhaps having a single set of rules would be nice

personal

OccasionalCortex says

But then...why the need for CalPERS, then? :)

So, no. They will never do that. Ever.

I see your good point. Don't run CALPERS like a hedge fund and run it more like the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). They'll still reliably earn 6 to 7% per year.

Those who get the California pension from Calpers will be OK.

Why? Because the politicians put California taxpayers on the hook for Calpers fuck ups.

It's set up so that if Calpers makes money, they get to keep it. If Calpers loses money, the tax payers have to make up the difference.

"Heads I win, tails I win."

OccasionalCortex says

...CalPERS’ current unfunded liabilities, officially $179 billion, could be closer to $360 billion, completely overwhelming the fund’s current assets and making it, on paper at least, insolvent.

This is why the fucks are salivating at the thought of breaking down the last tax protection a.k.a. Prop13 and going full Illinois on our asses.

OccasionalCortex says

for Prop 13, they would have to amend the state constitution. And telling voters they need to vote for it to bail out entitled public sector union brats won't fly. So, expect them to spin some other crap-story. (Single Payer!)

Yep, "single payer", "fairness", "housing crisis", "it's for the children!" and the rest of that tired crap.

Herdingcats says

And @Patrick, why is Kakistocracy and others able to read this post even when I set them on 'ignore'?

Why can I comment on your post with me on ignore?

The same reason Mr. Magic aka Sniper aka Ironman is allowed to pollute people's posts/threads when they have him on ignore.

personal

Herdingcats says

Are you sure he can read them when he is logged in?

You betcha !

Kakistocracy says

Are you sure he can read them when he is logged in?

It's even funnier when OC complains about me heckling him while Mr. Magic is out and about like bad case of diarrhea on everyone's posts seeking attention like a child pulling on its' mother's hem but nary a word of complaint about that.

OccasionalCortex says

This is why the fucks are salivating at the thought of breaking down the last tax protection a.k.a. Prop13 and going full Illinois on our asses.

With the mainstream media helping them, the Dems in California definitely can "convince" the public about the "altruism" behind eliminating Prop 13.

Look at what is going on in France with the Yellow Vest protest. The taxpayers there have had enough of all the "altruism" behind high taxes. They called b.s. on the increase in fuel taxes because they knew that the taxes were to fund more social welfare spending for immigrants (not for green technology initiatives).

Teachers are holy and special. They’ll raise taxes in CA to pay them.