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calpers Archive
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Fat Cat Public Pensions Being Cut
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 5 Comments. . . By this time we should all be familiar with the stories about highly paid, sometimes excessively so, public officials retiring with multiple six figure pensions for life.... -
Public Pensions. Invest in CA Constitutional Amendment
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 26 Comments. . . Michael Lee Madsen, Sr. has just submitted an Initiative to the Attorney General with a request that it appears on the November 2012 Ballot.The office of the AG... -
California’s Public Pension Debt About to Worsen?
Posted on December 11, 2010 | 5 Comments. . . Forecasts of the future cost of public pension programs offered by states, cities, counties, school districts and other government entities have for the last few years been... -
CalPERS Delays Scary Pension Reports Until After the Election
Posted on October 12, 2010 | 2 CommentsA senior CalPERS attorney just told me that the annual pension liability reports for local agencies, which are normally distributed every October, have now been delayed until after the November... -
Fullerton’s $100,000 Pension Club Welcomes 15 New Members
Posted on April 8, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s been almost a year since we published the original list of retired Fullerton public employees earning over $100,000 per year in pensions. Since then we have learned that our... -
Bankrupt city of Vallejo cuts firefighter pensions
Posted on March 27, 2010 | 9 CommentsVallejo firefighters may have to get second jobs now that their pensions have been slashed While it surely is not the preferred method of dealing with financial shortfalls, the approval... -
Teachers’ Pension Fund Lying Low, Set to Explode
Posted on December 21, 2009 | No CommentsCertain Fullerton school board members have taken issue with our characterization of the CalSTRS teachers’ pension system as being underfunded and unsustainable. Our resident pension expert suggests that that the... -
Pension Reform Sham
Posted on November 6, 2009 | 8 CommentsA proposed pension reform initiative, the Public Employees Benefits Reform Act (PEBRA), should die an early death and never see the ballot box. PEBRA gives state workers pension guarantees superior to private sector workers. It does nothing to fix the current pension mess. PEBRA does little to reform the generous "3 at 50" retirement benefit that is bankrupting the state. It leaves the door open for taxpayers to pay state worker health and pensions costs in full. PEBRA isn't the reform California needs - eliminating pension guarantees completely. -
Public relations firms paid millions to teach us to love more taxes!
Posted on November 6, 2009 | 1 CommentC A L I F O R N I A C O M M E N T A R Y – A weekly opinion column from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers... -
City of San Jose, CA drowning in an ocean of pension obligations
Posted on July 12, 2009 | 4 CommentsSometimes it takes time for the news to be published by the print media. On April 29th I began blogging a series on CalPERS Pensions with my first target being... -
Who’s Who” in Santa Ana $100,000 Annual Retirement Pension Club
Posted on April 29, 2009 | 29 CommentsThe information below was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS). Search the $100,000 Pension Club database … There are currently 50... -
Vernon City Admin. gets $499,675 annual pension from CalPERS
Posted on April 29, 2009 | 4 CommentsAs California looks at ways to fix the budget crisis perhaps we should look at our pension obligations for current retirees. While this is but the tip of the iceberg,... -
With NY pension scandal are CA CalPERS &CalSTRS investments safe?
Posted on April 23, 2009 | 1 CommentLet me open this post with a segment of this calpensions report: “The California Public Employees Retirement System has committed about $4 billion to 27 different Carlyle funds, according to... -
Calpers is the culprit, not Prop. 13
Posted on January 4, 2009 | 11 CommentsSome municipal officials in California are blaming Prop. 13 for their financial woes – when in truth the REAL problem, besides their proclivity for wasting taxpayers money in frivolous ways,...
