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POPSCalifornia's Broken Model In what respects, then, does California "excel"? California's state and local government employees were the best compensated in America, according to the Census Bureau data for 2006. And the latest posting on the website of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility shows 9,223 former civil servants and educators receiving pensions worth more than $100,000 a year from California's public retirement funds. The "dues" paid by taxpayers in order to belong to Club California purchase benefits that, increasingly, are enjoyed by the staff instead of the members.
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POPSSEIU Needs Socialized Medicine To Stoke Its Underfunded Pensions 
and union employees at the expense of the rank-and-file. To regain some semblance of fiscal stability, the SEIU has wagered heavily on forcing other employees to help fund its drying pension reserves. That was the motivation behind the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) ("Card Check"), a major Democrat initiative for 2009, and one on which the SEIU spent tens of millions of its members' money. Since Card Check is in serious trouble with lawmakers, state-run health care would be a suitable alternative. • The public option could force hospital and other health care workers into underfunded pensions, putting their retirements at risk • The average union pension has resources to cover only 62% of what is owed to participants • Less than one in every 160 union-represented workers is covered by a union pension with required assets • The PBGC already supports upwards of 30,000 pension plans • Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the governmental pension insurer,
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POPSClub of Rome "The real enemy then, is humanity itself." According to its website, the Club of Rome is composed of "scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies." "Searching for a new enemy to unite us..." See also "Comittee of 300" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crYO5Or-86M "The threat of pollution, global warming, water shortages, and famine can be used to fulfill humanity's need for a common adversary"
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POPSCheap fares? Not in Blackpool? Councillor Ian Fowler has to travel first class by train because he cannot tell any interloper to get out of his seat. Something fishy about this former sailor? You can complain to him at cllr.ian.fowler@blackpool.gov.uk The lazy sod will not respond to you either.
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POPSAMA signs its members up to be civil servants I have not met a single person who is not completely worried about this healthcare issue. No one argues that there are a lot of things that need to be fixed or altered. But the *rush* factor is very puzzling. Better to intelligently deal with one portion at a time than to throw over the entire system when parts of it are working well.
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POPSZimbabwe's Diamond Fields "At a time when Zimbabwe is struggling to pay civil servants and soldiers a stipend of $100 a month, the extra income from diamond mining for soldiers is serving “to mollify a constituency whose loyalty to ZANU-PF, in the context of ongoing political strife, is essential,” the Human Rights Watch report said."
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POPS"Yes the Taliban Repeatedly Raped Me... But They Respected Me" referred to Joanie de Rijke’s case. “She was raped, but she was not angry. The journalist who went looking for the Taliban in Afghanistan saw her curiosity end in a cruel ordeal of multiple rape. While this would make others angry or sad, this journalist shows understanding. She says: ‘They also respected me.’ And she was given tea and biscuits.” “This story” Wilders said, “is a perfect illustration of the moral decline of our elites. They are so blinded by their own ideology that they turn a blind eye to the truth. Rape? Well, I would put this into perspective, says the leftist journalist: the Taliban are not monsters. Our elites prefer to deny reality rather than face it. One would expect: a woman is being raped and finds this unbearable. But this journalist is not angry because the Muslim involved also showed respect. Our elites, whether they are politicians, journalists, judges, subsidy gobblers or civil servants, are totally clueless.
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POPSAll funded from current tax not investment Pension experts say the government should do more to reduce public sector retirement perks. Ros Altmann, a former adviser on pensions to Tony Blair, said: “The number in the public sector will rise in the years ahead, not least because pay levels have risen sharply in the public sector in recent years. The burden of paying these very generous pensions will fall on taxpayers for generations to come.”
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POPSMichael Savage - banned from Britiain And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. "And where would the ordinary simple folk - the common people, as they like to call them in America - where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?" Winston Churchill, The First Conservative Election Broadcast, June 4, 1945.
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POPSMichael Savage - banned from Britiain "And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. "And where would the ordinary simple folk - the common people, as they like to call them in America - where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?" Winston Churchill, The First Conservative Election Broadcast, June 4, 1945.
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POPSMI5 & privacy of the individual If the systems which should help to protect us can be easily abused to supress our freedoms, then the terrorists will have won. A few names....British army officer Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell (1873-1942), who in 1909 became the first head of MI5, the new British intelligence unit then known as the Security Service. the monocled Lt Col Robin 'Tin Eye' Stephens. David Shayler, the former MI5 officer prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Former head of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to hold the top spymaster role Evans' predecessor Eliza Manningham-Buller MI5's spymaster Jonathan Evans. This is MI5, but not as Britain has ever known it.
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POPSParliamentary Privilege again Remember Clive Pontin? If Christopher Galley is taken to Court it will not stand because the man on the Clapham omnibus will not tolerate political duplicity. There is video evidence of Gordon Brown bragging he used civil servants information to embarrass the Conservatives. Was he every arrested? No scrutiny of Parliament, no vetting of heinous regulation and idiotic legislation except by the fuddy duddies of the Lords, and thank heavens they do a decent job. Grooming????? That is conspiracy and should never be brought unto after a charge has been laid. Labour has destroyed every vestige of decency in this country – with wonderful exceptions and Mr Winnick is that exception.
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