WSJ:
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday unveiled what would be one of the nation's widest-reaching pension overhauls, a proposal that would raise the retirement age and shift more investing responsibilities to public workers.
The 12-point plan includes meshing a 401(k)-style component into newly hired workers' retirement plans, raising the age at which some future employees retire to 67 from 55 now and boosting pension contributions for current workers. Labor groups immediately expressed disapproval.
Encinitas labor groups don't have anything to worry about. Their bought-and-paid-for councilman Jerome Stocks, who voted to spike city pensions by 35% in 2005, is still stonewalling Teresa Barth's attempts to get pension reform on the Encinitas council agenda. And now it looks like he's about to appoint his longtime crony and union dream candidate Mark Muir to give the unions an even bigger council majority.
Bond and Barth agreed to put this on the agenda but there is no time-frame for putting requested items on the docket. Who on the council voted for dropping the 60 day requirement on requested items?
ReplyDeleteEncinitas residents are waking up and are watching the Council much more carefully than before. If Muir and Stocks want to come back in 2012, they had better watch their steps!
ReplyDeleteThe developers will dump big bucks into their political cronies coffers in 2012- they want $tock$ and Muir representing their interests, especially with the city plan formulating. Are Encinitas citizens truly awake?? I still hear a big ZZZZZZZZ coming from suburbia!
ReplyDeleteWhy would they wake up when there are no civic leaders waking them up. Who is out there telling them something is wrong? What are they telling them?
ReplyDeleteThere is no alarm happening because there is nothing wrong.
Nothing wrong except for a community being sold out and civic coffers being looted.
ReplyDeleteWho are the civic leaders and why do you need a leader to tell you there's something rotten at city hall?
ReplyDeleteIf democracy depends on people being "led," it ain't gonna work out so well.
Actually, there are several reform-minded candidates running for City Council in 2012, hoping to displace Stocks and Bonds and support Teresa.
ReplyDeletethe encinitas theme ( as always )is W G A S A= who gives a s--t anyway ?
ReplyDeleteI agree. another one is "Pass Me the Reefer and Its not my problem?" Encinitas Voters are as dumb as Rocks.
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