I love how the Democrats are crowing about the “California Recovery.” Specifically, they want you to believe that unemployment is slowly declining in the State. Not so.
This is from the California Employment Development Department on December 26, 2012:
“Current Benefits Status
“Currently, there are more than 920,000 people certifying for benefits in California. The majority of these customers are collecting on a federal extension claim while the remainder are somewhere in the midst of a regular unemployment claim.
“Between regular and federal extension benefits, the EDD has paid a total of $17.1 billion in benefits for calendar year 2011 and $9.3 billion so far this year (as of August 16, 2012), and is currently paying about $284 million a week. These benefits provide critical sustenance to unemployed workers and their families, in addition to local businesses where much of the benefits are spent on basic needs.
“Customers Who Have Run Out of Maximum Benefits
“As of December 24, 2012, there have been close to 928,600 unemployed workers in California who have run out of all available benefits.”
Funny numbers
In other words, if you counted all the California unemployed, that number is 1.846 million. The rate is not 9.8 percent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U-6 number, a broader measure of unemployment, is 19.6 percent — more than double what Obama and Brown want you to believe.
Brown claims that 2012-13 California budget deficit will be $1.9 billion when the fiscal year ends on June 30. Yet, State Controller Chiang, a Democrat. says the cash deficit if $24.9 billion—and growing. Oh, and expected revenues are down 10 percent.
You get $1.9 billion by “forgetting” the $12.5 billion owed the schools due to Proposition 98, the $10 billion owed the federal government for paying for the unemployment insurance checks, the $15 billion stolen from Trust Funds and $10 billion borrowed from Wall Street to cover the cash deficit.
Then you have to add the full-time workers forced, due to Obamacare, to part time work—that is tens of thousands more, starting Jan. 1. Of course, we already have many working part time that want to work full time.
Yes, it is depressing to hear the truth and the Democrats want you to be happy. As Ayn Rand said, “You can hide from reality but you can not evade the consequences of reality.”
Depression
California is in a Depression; the nation is in a Depression. In fact, economists are now saying we have been in a national recession since July.
We feel comfortable hearing the deficit will be lower and fewer will be unemployed. We do not ask if it is the full truth. We do not want to be depressed. No one wants to hear that we have already fallen over the economic cliff. Regardless of the deal made in Congress on the “fiscal cliff,” spending by government will continue to rise and regulations will continue to kill jobs in the name of environmentalism.
Go to the grocery store on a consistent basis and note that the price of bacon, bread and milk has gone up. The cost of hamburger is up. Try naming a fruit or vegetable that is not more expensive this year than last. Yes, the price of technology is down—but how many cell phone or iPads can you buy? Take a family to McDonald’s for dinner and see how expensive that has become.
Forget the government “statistics.” Has your cost of living gone up or down? Do your friends trust the economy? Do you? Trust you experiences.
Thanks to Obamacare, a 70-year-old woman will probably not qualify for a hip replacement—but can immediately receive “free” contraception. In California, thanks to “health exchanges” and the mandate for insurance companies to provide “free” services, the cost of private health insurance has gone up 25 percent in one year. This has caused many employers to drop coverage for their employees.
The unemployment numbers headlined by government are just the tip of the iceberg. We need the media to report on the complete numbers, not just those sent out by press release. The Depression is getting worse. It is time we stopped evading reality.
(Stephen Frank publishes California Political New & Views. Retrieved from CalWatchdog.)
The Progressives forget that mathematics has no political affiliation –
either the numbers add up, or they don’t.
In this case, they don’t
Welcome to the Future:
Trickle-up Poverty!
Duh !!!!!! This is a Democrat State government, the numbers go to a Democrat controlled Federal Government, can anyone really expect the truth.
Just like when the Gov. tells you that inflation is flat. But when you figure in fuel and food prices it’s about 20%..Yes 20%. How can we have any faith in our Gov. when they repeatedly lie to us. Then we repeatedly re-elect these morons? Feinstein is coming out against guns, yet she has a CCW. What the heck is going on here?? Total hypocrisy. Total TYRANNY!!
And all those air heads that voted for more government spending on food stamps, unemployment benefits, union dues. For the first time businesses and individual families are moving out of California. You ain’t seen anything yet. The only pay checks that have gone up are for Government employees.
I can’t believe it. A state that has so many very smart people in it has more stupid people than smart. Is that possible? The numbers do not add up as askeptic says, but Sacramento can push the pencil to make it look good. What a wonderful life in CA!!!! Hang in there Jerry and his group will have all your paycheck soon. Then he can give you welfare benefits and guess who you will vote for next election. Brown because just like Obama is your savior. Go get em Jerry!!! What a joke.
I’ve read the four previous posts. Its clear how they have expressed their alarm and disgust with the state. But I have not read the appreciation of just how truely dangerous this procrastination with the public good has become, or where it is going. The Los Angeles basin and Orange county are very densely populated, with overwhelming human numbers vitally dependent on the infrastructure just to survive together. Severing the thin links of transportation, water, and electrical power to forment civil chaos has already been assesed by terrorist elements, no doubt. Sacramento is creating a similar likelihood in its fiscal dereliction in avoiding economic realities. For example, creating and maintaining 369 separate state agencies just so the legislature can micromanage the social agendas of each (and visa versa) is simply not sustainable. Insisting on the ego-centric need for an expensive high-speed rail during a depression, that must be debt-funded, and will yield modest utility, even though an extensive highway system exists, reveals Sacramentos priorities. But their refusal to take austere measures to their champagne progressivism doesnt match the states Californias relative beer revenues.
When the Rodney King incident occured in a previous mild downturn, pent up consumer demand prompted local folks to exploitatively riot for profit. Remember it was general, and bad enough for the military to impose martial law. THIS TIME, it will be for non-luxury essentials like food and shelter. Dont fool yourself that folks will just opt to live homeless in California, because the great weather lets them. Have you noticed how cold this winter is becoming, even in California? If you have wondered, now you know why there are no homeless swiss (for more than one year anyway).
By Sacramento sticking its head in the sand, the stage is set for anarchy where a significant percentage of the population does possess arms, and knows about the 2nd Amendment government violations of Katrina (so dont expect blind obedience to authority).
With the socialist maniac in the White House, Californias economic ship is not likely to ‘come in’. In fact, the only areas showing positive growth, are those that are forsaking social proressivism (policy and statuate), and adopting ‘smaller size and scope for government’ conservative philosophies and policies.
And here we are, in the belly of the socialist beast. Liberals would rather see the state crash and burn (like Hitler) than to see their utopia transformed into a functioning state like it once was; before the socialists took Sacramento.
Gee, what a sutprise !!!
This governor is struggling to prove that he can outlie the president. He might succeed. If he does, it will be the only success in his administration.
Well said, Howard. Many voters in this state need to wake up & soon.
Answers easy, ANYONE CAN DO THIS
if you’ll just step up to the plate and swear to do it, I’LL VOTE FOR YOU.
If no one else will do this, I WILL.
Just write my name in for President in Nov. 2016 and upon innauguration,
I will IMMEDIATELY give America, back to the American Citizens.
Here it is.
1.) Under a National Security Emergency, the President swears ALL
American citizens, age 21 and older into the National Oath of Office
(taken by every person while in the private sector BEFORE entering a public sector job).
2.) IMMEDIATELY make ALL American Citizens, OFFICERS in what will IMMEDIATELY become the largest, highest ranking POLICE FORCE in the nation, called THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL POLICE FORCE (USCPF).
3.) Each OFFICER in the USCPF then engages their 2nd Amendment RIGHTS and arms themselves in ALL public places so as to defend (not themselves) but those around them.
ALL OTHER POLICE FORCES WILL BE SUBSERVIENT TO THE USCPF and NO ONE is on the PUBLIC PAYROLL.
Law enforcement is EVERY American Citizen’s responsibility, and no one gets paid for it.
( Anyone injured while preventing a crime will have all medical cost paid for by the U.S. Treasury.)
RESULT: A safer America where the CITIZENS are ARMED and are the HIGHEST law enforcement in the nation (not the politicians, federal, state, or local) .
Each sworn to uphold, defend, and protect our borders and our U.S. and State Constitutions.
4.) Nationalize ALL DEBT, Public and Private. Result: All debt belongs to the government.
5.) IMMEDIATELY FORGIVE ALL DEBT, Public and Private.
Result: No government debt.
6.) Lower ALL wholesale / retail prices, and ALL salary and wages, by 90% ACCROSS THE BOARD, using June 1, 2011 as a benchmark.
RESULT: 1970′s wages and prices, and ZERO DEBT for the entire country.
7.) NGA20s / National Grant Account for all LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS (you have to prove citizenship) age 20 and older.
This is a DIGITAL ACCOUNT with $50,000 ONE TIME GRANT in your own personal NGA20 Account with the U.S. Treasury Department.
RESULT: Zero debt, 1970′s prices and wages, and the POOREST American CITIZEN will have $50,000 in their own NGA20 account.
ALL OTHER GOVERNMENT FUNDED PROGRAMS AND BENEFITS ARE IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED, CANCELLED, VAPORIZED.
RESULT: No need for 90% of ALL government agencies that dole out money from the taxpayers because there will be NO MORE POOR in the land.
This abolishes the whole 16 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. and governments boot is off the citizens neck,
and 90% of ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES will have to find work in the PRIVATE sector.
8.) With ALL DEBTS forgiven, there is no more need for the IRS. It is FOREVER ABOLISHED.
The Federal and State governments will be funded by a 3% Excise tax (for each, total 6%) on all RETAIL purchases.
RESULT: A PERMANENT CAP on ALL Federal and State Spending, and 100% of the Citizens, and Visitors of the United States pays the tax.
It will provide ENORMOUS revenues for National and State projects with a tiny portion alotted for pay of government workers.
EVERYONE TAKES HOME 100% OF THEIR PAYCHECKS! No more Federal or State Taxes deducted from wages and salaries, either Corporate or Private.
9.) Lift ALL MORATORIUMS on ENERGY production, OIL, GAS, SOLAR.
RESULT: America has energy reserves larger than Saudi Arbia, and will cause an immediate drop in gas and fuel prices.
The United States will be the least expensive place on earth to produce energy and we will immediately start the construction of 500 oil refinerys accross America and will be energy INDEPENDANT in 3 years or LESS.
10). ALL JOBS will return to the United States because we are the most ECONOMICAL environment to have a business with minimal government regulation and ZERO TAXES.
ALL OF THIS can be accomplished by JUNE 2017 IF ANYONE WILL STEP UP AND DO IT.
IF NO ONE ELSE WILL, I WILL. Just WRITE – IN Thomas J. Raasio for President.
If NOTHING changes, NOTHING CHANGES.
Due to the currant administration many more are going on public assistance due to obamacare the love of Democrats?? Yes we are in a depression!! Especially in Cali with corporations and people running to more friendly states like Texas for a better life and taxes?? Chevron corporation headquarters in San Ramon moving to Texas 800 employees will be gone?? Under Dem’s rule things are not going to get better anytime in the future??
FIGURES LIE AND LIERS FIGURE. An educator once put it this way; “Those that pay for a survey get the result paid for”.
Speaking to a long term associate at the Louis Leaky foundation at Cal Tech told the story that the only papers that were ever published were those that supported the theory of evolution. Papers that stated otherwise were placed in the “round” file.