The Golden State
may have had a $30 billion surplus before the pandemic hit
But probably
a number from smoke and mirrors if one to calculations for unfunded liabilities
admit
Not counting
market loss of value CALPERS and CALSTERS have $93.1B in unfunded pension liabilities
in the red
Our budget
surplus of $30B has overnight due to pandemic changed into almost $54 B deficit
instead
Before the
states whose spending on public payroll and pensions with their unfunded
liability has not gone amok
Before
demanding a federal bailout and calling it immoral if we resist curbing
spending before a deal is struck
We must get
or at least really try to get our house in fiscal order
We must no
longer be a magnet for illegal immigration at our Southern border
Newsom has
called for a 10 percent cut in spending on state employees a small step and
drop in the bucket
Leaving
untouched pensions that dwarf private sector that years ago on defined benefits
acted to chuck it
Like the pandemic
models on morbidity that are up and down of the charts
That have skewed
our efforts to fight the pandemic from the start
And put us
in rushes to the economy and civil liberties shutdown
Assumptions
not valid with projections drawn like from clowns
Instead of
using the pandemic to on the deficit blame
Why not once
and for all determine the costs in suffering from the not deporting illegals game
Estimates
are subject to bias whether the group is pro or against illegal immigration
And any
number put forth will be met with rabid and strenuous condemnation
But for what
it’s worth a FAIR study put out in 2017 comes up with a cost of $23B cost to the
Golden State
Since the
number of illegals has most likely increased that cost is most likely higher
and did not abate
May be difficult
because the left has fought tooth and nail
That any
attempts to determine citizenship must be doomed to fail
Might even become
a much easier task
If only we
could where are you a citizen ask
At a time of
budget deficits we must our spending cut back and prioritize
Taking care
of our citizen homeless or poverty stricken should not be a call to such
efforts demonize
Newsom is a
puppet to CALPERS, CALTERS and the trial
bar and to significantly cut spending not up to the task
But not
acting and instead going to the federal trough to for well run states is too
much to ask
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May 17, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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