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  • Now Everyone is Starting to Talk About It

    George Rebane The government employee compensation and pension crisis is beginning to come up on everyone’s radar.  Well, perhaps everyone except some very closeted socialists here in our neck of the woods.  I am always amazed when I read and sometimes participate in the comment thread of an article either published on a blog or…

  • Dear Government Employees

    George Rebane [The following piece was submitted to The Union and appears today (here) as my Other Voices column for July.] Dear Government Employees – These are difficult times for all, times that now shine a bright and revealing light on things hidden and unmentioned in our communal life.  Governments at all levels are broke and broken. …

  • No Hope or Change from Sacramento

    George Rebane “death spiral” is how a learned correspondent characterized the latest Democrat rejections of starting a two-tiered Calpers program for government employees (as reported in the SacBee here).  The second tier was supposed to offer a bit more reasonable package to new state employees – not a chance with this crowd.  Their argument is that…

  • California 1849 – 2009

    [The following anonymous contribution, a la the Michael Jackson hoopla, was forwarded by a colleague and east coast correspondent.  Word has gotten out.  gjr] Fans Flock to Mourn California, 1849-2009 LOS ANGELES – Millions of fans from around the globe gathered along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession…

  • Nevada County ARRA Still on Ice

    George Rebane Well, the ARRA – aka SP787 – stimulus is performing sorta like history predicts (cf. FDR’s alphabet soup programs during the 1930s) – late, expensive, and ineffective.  Now, after launching TARP(SP700) and SP787, they’re starting to talk about “stimulus two”.  What again was that definition of insanity? Meanwhile here in the woods we’re…

  • … and then, where’s Hillary?? (updated)

    George Rebane Things are getting curiouser and curiouser.  Today everyone is hyper-ventilating on the portents of Sarah Palin’s resignation, President Obama making nice with the Russians, the Dems are on the air talking down the abject failure of stimulation, Iran is confirming it’s a totalitarian state, Madman Kim Jong Il is cutting back North Korea’s…

  • Obama’s Numbers and the Austrian School

    George Rebane Team Obama must finally agree with Ludwig von Mises, famed economist and founder of the Austrian School of Economics.  As reported here numerous times, von Mises advised in an economic recession like ours, that the government should “do nothing – sooner!”  Now with White House numbers standing embarrassed in the light of real…

  • Ruminations – 2jul2009

    George Rebane Juan Williams of NPR surprised the living *#%@ out of me last night not once, but TWICE!  First, that Bill O’Reilly chose this dignified and sober liberal journalist to guest host his show.  And second, that Juan immediately launched into a relentless pursuit of a truth, the discovery of which would be clearly…

  • Ruminations – 30jun2009

    George Rebane We read a lot around this house.  Breakfast invariably includes the WSJ and our local Union.  Periodically I get on my high-horse about the asinine columns written by financial reporters, and this morning WSJ’s Mark Gongloff piqued my ire with his ‘no information’ piece on the movement of bond and stock prices yesterday.  Like…

  • The Department of Peace

    George Rebane There is a bill (HR808) before Congress to create a cabinet level Department of Peace (DOP). The movement to expand the Executive Branch in this direction is quietly gathering steam among the country’s progressives.  Their social theoretician is a Howard Rosenberg, a journalist and social critic who appears to be a cartoon of the…

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