Okay, so I’m back up on my feet after my…awakening, the rude shock of finding out I’m not…me. Time to get past it, to get back in the saddle. As you know, we here at NoPoli Network News, have been coming down on all of the bad stuff surrounding public employee pensions for at least [...]
Listing for: Pension Reform
Retirement, Recovery, Spending, Taxes, Integrity, and Accountability: Cutting and Investing in a Complex World of Irresponsibility
Posted January 7, 2011 1 Comment
On July 4, 2010 Paige Norman posted and posed the question at NoPoli: “What is the single greatest impediment to the future economic stability of America?” She responds by saying: “Possibilities abound, of course, but I believe the single greatest impediment to the future viability is the exploding cost of public pensions—and the demonstrated inability [...]
For some time now, I have been expressing the view that the unions have really been threatening, and destroying, our economy, particularly in the area of public pension entitlements, but otherwise as well. The November 19 issue of The Week reports that the combined shortfall in funding public pension entitlements could reach $3.4 [...]
Public Pensions Thick as Thieves
Posted August 6, 2010
Even California Attorney General union lover Jerry Brown has joined the stampeding bandwagon. AG Brown is in the midst of conducting a criminal investigation for voter fraud in connection with the $800,000 per year salary of the city manager of teeny Los Angeles County city of Bell that will entitle the now disgraced–and suddenly [...]
The Single Greatest Impediment to Economic Recovery: Public Pension Obligations–and Influence
Posted July 4, 2010 2 Comments
What is the single greatest impediment is to the future economic stability of America? Possibilities abound, of course, but I believe the single greatest impediment to the future viability of the American economy is…the exploding cost of public pensions—and the demonstrated inability of our governmental leaders to resolve the issue. (Mmm, that may be two [...]

