CalPERS influence costly to taxpayers (10/27/09, page C2)
Steve Butler, Retirement Planner, Op-Ed
Easily the most inspired column by Steve. He accurately exposes the corruption of a system that allows ‘finder’s fees’ while the agency has 2300 employees whom, he points out, you’d think would be able to determine which asset managers have a good track record.
“[T]he higher costs and substandard investment results attributable [...]
Bills dig into Big Oil (10/27/09, Front Page)
Steven Harmon, CCTimes
Although Steven tried to be fair, the ridiculous unconstitutional provision in the bills that would ‘restrict’ the oil companies from raising their prices in order to recoup this tax increase needed to be challenged.
Is it fair to tax a business and then tell them they cannot raise their prices to recover their loss of income?
Moreover, [...]
Stimulus creates jobs, data show (10/16/09, Front Page)
Matt Apuzzo & Brent Blackledge, AP
HOLY COW! $53,333 of taxpayer dollars per job “created” by this idiotic “stimulus” and the liberal Contra Costa Times puts this headline on it? It is no wonder the Times is losing money. They don’t understand money.
Medical insurance rejection rates (10/10/09, not in CCTimes)
Amazingly, the American Medical Association compiled the claim rejection rates of major insurance companies and compared it to the rejection rate of government run Medicare and found that Medicare is much more heartless than all but one major carrier (Aetna). Given these numbers, why would we believe President Government and his enforcer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, [...]
What global warming? (10/10/09, not in CCTimes)
Seems even the uber-liberal BBC is questioning the myth of global warming. Check it out. You won’t see this open minded assessment in the liberal Contra Costa Times.
Obama, world traveler (10/8/09, Front Page)
Steven Thomas, McClatchy
Alternative Headline: Obama, world polluter
Honestly, this pathetic newspaper cannot whine enough about global warming and how it’s fact, but the minute their ‘dear leader’ violates one of the newspaper’s global warming commandments they ignore it. What a joke.
This is how global warming is going to work. You at home will have to pay [...]
Health bill gains traction (10/8/09, Front Page)
David Espo, AP
1. Which bill did the CBO analyze to come up with the $81 billion per year savings?
2. Has anyone actually seen the completed bill, including all the amendments?
We’ll give Espo credit for noting early in his story that the estimate of savings from the CBO is ‘preliminary.’ We’ll insult the liberal CCTimes for [...]