In January 1979 Governor Jerry Brown signed the DILLS ACT. It permitted state employees to negotiate salaries and benefits with other state employees - the legislators whom they helped elect with union dues. The result of this self-serving "negotiation" by both state employees is a $500 billion unfunded liability for state health and pension benefits. Their contrived "spike" of final year salaries and the addition of accrued vacation to their pensions is virtual white collar crime as committed by the public employees in Bell, California. Such greed might be continued on Wall Street - but it must end in Sacramento.
This HALF TRILLION DOLLAR unfunded liability truly is plundering the state budget and bankrupting California. It deprives honest hardworking taxpayers of the health care, educational, public safety and social services they pay for with some of the highest taxes in the nation. Unless these excessive benefits are corrected, every Californian, their children and grandchildren will pay for them all their lives with higher state taxes and less services.
Unfortunately instead of cutting excessive benefits and costly regulations to help reduce the deficit, Governor Brown - as in 1979 - has thanked the unions for funding his election. He cynically has cut both the Adult Day Care health program and In Home Support for the elderly, frail and disabled, and threatens additional cuts in state services unless Californians, who now pay some of the highest taxes in the nation, vote for more taxes. Surely this will drive out more businesses, jobs and tax revenues at a time when state unemployment is over 12 percent.
"Good job Brownie" – Solidarity Forever!
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