San Francisco’s 26,000 city employees have been granted generous salaries, benefits and pension plans by the taxpayers of this city who support their hard work.
More than one-third receive in excess of $100,000 when overtime and unused vacation are factored in. They also receive generous health care plans, pensions and other benefits totaling tens of thousands of dollars more per employee.
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Justice Department documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch exposed quite a contradiction — a secret meeting on transparency in government. It happened on Dec. 7, 2009, and was convened by the Office of Information Policy in the Justice Department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Earlier this month, Solyndra, the solar panel company that received $535 million in federal loan guarantees and was touted as the symbol of President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiative, declared bankruptcy and had its offices raided by the FBI.
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There’s no official definition of liberal government, but a fair description would be the activist use of official powers to protect and enhance the public welfare, however that may be perceived.The great political debates at all levels of government are over how deep that intrusion should be — such as the turmoil over whether the federal government should mandate purchase of health care insurance.
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WHAT: Only 55.4 percent of working-age Californians had a job in July, down from 56.2 percent a year earlier and the lowest level since 1976. The state has 12 percent unemployment, compared with 9.1 percent nationwide.
HOW: The state lost 1.4 million jobs during the recession that began in 2008 and has only regained 226,800, said the California Budget Project. A large portion of job losses were in local government, health care, retail and financial services.
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