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Aptos Psychologist: 20 million public sector retirees – the true “1%”

Sunday, May 20th, 2012
RETIREMENT Aptos Psychologist: 20 million public sector retirees    the true 1%

government union pays $65 K a year compared to $15 K for private sector Social Security

The average public sector retiree gets $65 K a year compared to the average private sector social security benefit of $15 K. It’s an accurate statement to say that taxpayers are enslaved to the public sector unions and why collective bargaining by government employees must be limited. See article that appeared on the web site.

Government Employees – The True “1%”
By Wayne Allen Root, on March 6th, 2012

Editor’s Note: The claims made in this commentary by Wayne Allen Root are incendiary. But they are true. We are on track in the United States to pay more money to 20 million public sector retirees – at an average pension of $65,000 we will pay these retirees $1.3 trillion per year, then we will be paying in social security to 80 million private sector retirees – at an average social security benefit of $15,000 per year that will cost less, about $1.2 trillion per year. Providing a level of retirement security to government workers that only the wealthiest 1% can enjoy in the private sector is not “protecting the middle class,” it is economic enslavement by government unions over the taxpayer. This article originally appeared on FoxNews.com and is republished with permission by the author.

How did America become broke and insolvent? How did we build up an unimaginable $115 trillion in debt and unfunded liabilities? How did we allow the American Dream to become a nightmare? (more…)

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Firenze Sage: You cannot fail in Florida [teacher unions oppose standardized testing]

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

TEACHERS OPPOSEjpg Firenze Sage: You cannot fail in Florida [teacher unions oppose standardized testing]

Florida teacher unions oppose standardized tests


The Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida’s standardized test after preliminary results showed a drastic drop in student passing scores.

The results indicated only about a third of students would pass this year’s tougher Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test exam, compared with a passing rate of 80 percent or more last year.

“They’ve asked students to do more, but that’s pretty dramatic,” said Florida Education Association spokesman Mark Pudlow. “We need to examine what led to this, not just paper over the problem.”

The results provide another opening to critics of high-stakes testing. The statewide teachers union has opposed Florida’s use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers and grade schools.

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The teacher’s union is for the teachers, not the students who really don’t matter to the union.

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Firenze Sage: $15,000 soda pop [federal fine to school]

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

SODA Firenze Sage: $15,000 soda pop [federal fine  to school]

$15 K federal fine to school for soda bought after lunch makes no sense


Soda pop OK if bought before lunch but a huge federal fine if purchased after lunch. This makes no sense except harassment sense.

Davis High School has been fined $15,000 after they were caught selling soda pop during lunch hour, which is a violation of federal law.

The federally mandated law prohibits the sale of carbonated beverages after lunch is served. The program is an effort to help fight childhood obesity and to have young students make better food choices.

The mandate allows for carbonated beverages to be sold before lunch, but restricts students from buying lunch, then purchasing carbonated drinks afterward.

“Before lunch you can come and buy a carbonated beverage. You can take it into the cafeteria and eat your lunch, but you can’t first go buy school lunch then come out in the hallway and buy a drink,” said Davis High Principal Dee Burton.

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“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”

The Declaration of Independence has it spot on!!

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Firenze Sage: David Letterman’s whinge [on Obama's accomplishments] is answered

Friday, May 18th, 2012

OBAMA PILLARSjpg Firenze Sage: David Lettermans whinge [on Obamas accomplishments] is answered

Obama's meager record on the economy


About Obama’s meager record defended mightily by talk show host Letterman.

In an interview with NBC News anchor Brian Williams, Letterman asked, “What more do we want this man [Obama] to do for us, honest to God?”


Here’s how the folks at Commentary answered Letterman’s question:

For starters, something better than the weakest economic recovery in the modern era,

the worst jobs record
of any president in the modern era,

the highest sustained unemployment rate since the Great Depression,

a housing crisis worse than the Great Depression
,

unprecedented deficits and debt,

a standard of living that’s fallen longer and more steeply during the past three years than at any time since the government began recording it five decades ago,

a downgrade in the United States’ credit rating for the first time in history,

and a record number of people in poverty.
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None of this means anything to Letterman, the overpaid,ignoramus who pontificates nightly.

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Firenze Sage: Behold the Biden hovel

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Biden has middle class digs? Nope. $172,000 is the medium price for a home in America. Joe Biden’s home is worth $2.8 million -and that’s not counting the “cottage” [home] the government rents from Biden for $12 K to provide him protection.

Yet, he calls himself middle class Joe (Biden).

While it’s not clear who actually calls the vice president that, it is clear that his house and finances tell a different story. Here’s a picture of his home:

BIDEN HOME 300x190 Firenze Sage: Behold the Biden hovel

one car in front of Joe Biden's middle class home


Zillow.com, a reliable real estate web site, estimates the worth of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home (pictured above) to be a cool $2,856,950. (This does not appear to include the cottage on the Biden estate, which the vice president rents out to the Secret Service for more than $12,000 per year.)

“The vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, reported assets of between $239,000 and $866,000,” according to Bloomberg.

Biden added: “What do they think we think? What do they think we think in our houses? We’re like the rich guys — we have dreams, we have aspirations.” Indeed.

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And Joe Biden gave $380 to charity.

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Firenze Sage: Cherokee cheater again [Elizabeth Warren]

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Elizabeth Warren plagiarized recipes from expensive, French restaurant Le Pavilion and published them as passed down from her Cherokee relatives?

The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.

Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. The dishes were said to be particular favorites of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter.

INDIAN CHOW 300x252 Firenze Sage: Cherokee cheater again [Elizabeth Warren]

crab & cognac in Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee recipe


The two recipes, “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat” and “Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing,” appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News, a copy of which can be seen here.

Ms. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing is a word-for-word copy of Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe.

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This phoney is the woman who Obama would have had running our lives [via the Consumer Financial Protection Agency]. Connecticut has its lying senator. Is Mass. far behind?

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Aptos Psychologist: individual conscience and service (Romney) or a proletarian struggle (Obama)

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
PROLETARIANjpg Aptos Psychologist:  individual conscience and  service (Romney)  or a proletarian struggle (Obama)

Obama's proletarian struggle

Individual conscience and service or a proletarian struggle?

CONSCIENCEjpg Aptos Psychologist:  individual conscience and  service (Romney)  or a proletarian struggle (Obama)

personal conscience of each individual


What makes the individual matter?

For Obama it is the collective force that individuals can exert through mass action such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. Not the individual but the collectivity of individuals subsumed to some greater goal that causes important change according to Obama. Life is a proletarian struggle.

For Romney, “the call of service is one of the fundamental elements of our national character. It has motivated every great movement of conscience that this hopeful, fair-minded country of ours has ever seen.”

Recently, Gov. Romney told graduates of Liberty College that “the great drama is always personal, individual, unfolding in one’s own life… and that Men and women of every faith — and good people with none at all — sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.”

Life is politics says Obama. Obama tells college graduates at Banard College that the road ahead is a fairly grim proletarian struggle and that they need to be ready to occupy everything. Mass political action is the way to make significant change says Obama.

The contrasting world views of Romney and Obama as to how change occurs through individual actions could not be starker.

What say you as to why individuals matter?

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Aptos Psychologist: A terrorist is a terrorist & deal with them the same whether caught in a Yemon cave or in CA

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
TERRORISMjpg Aptos Psychologist: A terrorist is a terrorist & deal with them the same whether caught  in a Yemon cave or in  CA

treat all terrorists alike -- whether captured in a cave or shopping mall

Tell Adam Smith and Justin Amash that they are ‘losing it’ to seek to remove the legal authority granted by Congress after 9/11 to fight terrorists on every front.

If you live in Adam Smith’s district it is easy to contact him. He is on Facebook so you can leave him a note there. Adam Smith’s FAX is 202 225-5893 and voice is 202 225-8901.

Smith and Amash have proposed an amendment to next year’s defense authorization bill that more or less revokes the legal authority granted by Congress to fight terrorists on every front.

Let’s not reward terrorists with better treatment for having the wits to get out of their caves and sneak in to America to blow up civilians in shopping malls. Whether discovered in a cave in Yemon or Time Square New York all terrorists must be dealt with through legally approved military methods.

Obama refuses to transfer terrorists to Gitmo. Obama gave the protections that criminals have — Miranda rights — to terrorists. Obama has treated terrorists as though they were common criminals.

Obama is wrong. Terrorists are terrorists and not simply criminals. And that’s why the military must have the freedom to use military methods to deal with terrorists.

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Aptos Psychologist: Make SEIU union dues a voluntary choice a win-win for political free speech? Yes.

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

DUESjpg Aptos Psychologist: Make SEIU union dues a  voluntary choice  a win win for political  free speech? Yes.

no more forced SEIU union dues win-win for political free speech


Let’s take the wind out of sails of the SEIU?

How? Through state legislation, stop automatic deductions of union dues from SEIU workers pay checks.

Let workers be free to choose yes or no whether to pay union dues. Many government union workers will opt out of automatic dues removed from their checks. No automatic dues flowing into the SEIU results in less political clout that they can exert.

Why should any worker just to hold a job have to pay SEIU union dues
so that the SEIU can use dues to flow into other organizations like Change to Win which seeks to intimidate private companies such as Wellpoint from making political contributions?

Look at who runs Change to Win.
The President of SEIU, the Vice President of the SEIU and the Treasurer/Secretary of the SEIU are all key players of Change to Win.

Union front organization such as Change to Win seek to know and limit the political donations made by private corporations. Why? So that the unions are the only big players in who make large donations.

The unions such as SEIU want to control the political free speech exercised by of private corporations.

The SEIU seeks to grow government unions to grow their power.

Recently, in Michigan the SEIU suffered a setback to their political clout.
In states including Michigan and California home health care workers were forced to pay union dues.

Persons with developmental disabilities are frequently cared for life long by family members.

It is good news that developmentally disabled persons can stay in their homes thanks to health care provided by parents and relatives. Those who best know and love a relative with disabilities provides care at a fraction of the cost if the person had to be placed in a government run facility.

To deem home health care workers as “government employees” and force them to pay SEIU union wrongfully categorizes people and allows the SEIU to skim off millions of dollars. Home health care workers seek to care for their loved ones — not to do a government job. Recently Michigan has changed their laws. No more taking of union dues from Michigan home health care workers.

Can California wake up and follow Michigan’s lead? Let’s hope so. The necessary labor and employment laws are already in place to protect jobs.

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Firenze Sage: Free money to the undeserving [100 K principal reductions for CA homes]

Thursday, May 10th, 2012
HOUSE UNDERWATER Firenze Sage: Free money to the undeserving [100 K principal reductions for CA homes]

free money to the undeserving

In a big change, the state-run Keep Your Home California program will use federal money to reduce an eligible homeowner’s mortgage balance by up to $100,000 without requiring a matching reduction by the bank servicing the loan.

Many more underwater California homeowners will get principal reductions when the change takes effect in early June, but there’s a catch: The reduction is structured as a forgivable loan. If they sell their house within five years, any profit will go toward repaying the principal reduction. After five years, there is no repayment requirement. Under current rules, the loan is forgiven after three years.

Loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are potentially eligible for principal reduction under this program.

The money is coming from a $2 billion grant the state was awarded in 2010 from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Hardest Hit Fund. The grant provides four types of assistance to low- and moderate-income homeowners who can document a financial hardship.

To qualify under the new rules, homeowners must use the home as their primary residence, owe more than it’s worth, fall below the income limit for their county, demonstrate a financial hardship and owe no more than $729,750 on a first mortgage originated on or before Jan. 1, 2010. (The previous cutoff date was Jan. 1, 2009.)

In San Francisco the household income limit is $121,900. For other counties see keepyourhomecalifornia.org/files/income.pdf.

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This is simply outrageous. If in San Francisco you make $121,901, you have the privilege and honor to pay taxes so the federal government can turn money over to the state government(forget all the carrying charges here and there) to give your neighbor who overextended himself or lied on his loan application a gift of $100,000. This is fair?

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