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Pension bill loophole enables more spiking !
Original post made by Anti-union, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Aug 31, 2012
Daniel Borenstein had another of his pension articles on the front
page of this morning's Valley Times.
The loophole doesn't alter CalPERS, but does affect 20 counties with their own pension systems, such as ALAMEDA and ContraCosta who build up retirements by several hundred thousands with unused vacation and sick leaves.
Late Thursday, some lawmakers said they would work to correct the error. We'll see if they do.
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a resident of Livermore
on Aug 31, 2012 at 1:08 pm
sometimes i sleep in until about 9am! i enjoy a light breakfast, tea,
fresh fruit and yogurt. i make my own yogurt.
my garden is so beautiful right now...lots of veggies, i especially love the home grown lettuce.
oh...and when i read this blog and delighted that i played my cards rights so i can take care and enjoy life! HOORAY!
someday nobody will receive a pension...terrible
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 31, 2012 at 1:14 pm
my advice for those of you that plan to stick it out for a pension, is that you ALWAYS GIVE YOUR EMPLOYER AT LEAST A 50% RETURN ON HIS/HER INVESTMENT!
tee hee...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 2:17 pm
How about looking out for your own retirement (after all, it is in your best interest) by opening a 401k or self directed investment /savings account and stop relying on someone else to save for your retirement? If you're expecting cradle to grave support, you need to seek out a (more) socialist type of environment to live in.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 31, 2012 at 6:49 pm
I've lived comfortably thanks to the socialist environment that you're referring to...like I said, ALWAYS GIVE YOUR EMPLOYER AT LEAST A 50% RETURN ON HER/HIS INVESTMENT! HOORAY FOR RETIREMENT! IT WORKS!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Cholo is on a government pension so he wants more not less regardless of what it means for others.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 31, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Tell the truth...you're a jealous bug!
I worked hard and it paid off! I ALWAYS and I MEAN ALWAYS, gave my employers at least a 50% return on their investment.
How come so man folks are jealous that some of us kept a low profile, took advantage at every turn, and got what we wanted? When some of my senior pals get together, we always tell stories of how we clever we could be!
For some of us, it was waaaaaaaay fun...I'm one of the few folks that loves to embellish certain stories, my goodness, we even took 3-4 hr. lunch breaks when it rained! I was such a nice day today.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Loopholes? What are you talking about Cholo, I learned from the best- big business/the private sector. The one people seem to think should be our next president! The masters of loopholes.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Loopholes are what's in today's faux penion repair bill.
CPAs following the US tax code are just following the tax code.
True it does need to be rewritten. The code was mostly written by Chairman of House Ways and Means DEM Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who was a crook and went to prison for his shady activities. The all DEM neighborhoods and streets in that district have been in hand of Dems, Rostenkowski, Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and Blagojevich, also in prison. Political community organizers in that area make their own rules. The Chicago, Cook COunty, has been most corrupt district for decades. It is time for Rosty's tax code to be overhauled. But it's what we have, and can't use anything else. Law requires that you must use those tax codes. You and your neighbors pay CPAs to put your numbers on the suitable schedules. It's too bad when Obama had his own Congress, led by Ms Pelosi, that they didn't use the opportunity to rewrite the tax code.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 1, 2012 at 4:01 pm
There are always loopholes to explore! Not only is finding the loopholes waaaaaay fun but it tickles me no end that some employees find them and take a stretch. As long as an employee gives back at least a 50% on her/his employer's investment, what's the problem? duh...you can't be a shrinking violet and outslick your employer.
If you're so far out and don't have a clue, how come you get angry that some employees are around who can figure out movidas and out slick their employers? It seems to me that the anger is unjustified. Some of you think that just because you employ a few accountants and bookkeepers that they will cover you? NOT!
They're the biggest crooks. They can fake-out an employer and make it appear that some sad sack by the name of DUMBO did it!
I know a few seniors that are waaaaaay slick and do they like to talk about their adventures in corporate America? yup...and there are retired senior's like myself who love to hear the stories.
This is a tough world and if something funny comes along, what's so bad about talking about it? nada...
a resident of Downtown
on Sep 4, 2012 at 5:05 pm
I love retiring on the taxpayer's dime ... it is sweeeet ... spiked it to the Maaaaaxxx!... I'm in the $100,000 club and lovin' it
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Around 8:30 p.m., police were involved in a high speed chase of Bradley Allen Wilson, 30.
The chase was the result of a welfare check in Pocatello, officials said. The request for a welfare check came from Wilson's mother, who had become concerned after conversations and texts with her son. His cell phone carrier aided police in tracking Wilson's phone.
Police found Wilson in a convenience store parking lot across from Idaho State University. He brandished a weapon and sped away.
At the news conference, Chubbuck Police Chief Randy Severe said officers from various agencies chased Wilson, although the pursuit was called off a few times due to public safety concerns.
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Thanks, gang, for correcting my faulty memory about which year Ito won. I could have sworn Trenary's championship preceded Midori's. That'll learn me to post without verifying first. But I do recall that Jill was happy to be off the scene with her world gold before school figures ended. Was 1991 the year of the American sweep of Yamaguchi, Harding, and Kerrigan? That was some championship! It was in the morning paper before it showed on TV because of the time difference in my locality. Our newspaper wasn't much for articles about skating, but results like this merited a photo of all three ladies. By far Harding's finest hour, though Yamaguchi and Kerrigan went on to even greater accomplishments.
Nice idea for a post! Well, as always favorites start from 1992, as that is the year I first remember watching figure skating:
Michelle vs. Tara.
The quality they brought to the 1998 Olympics is still a gold standard for me. Both in terms of the skating and their graceful attitudes. It was such a great antidote to the Nancy-Tonya thing.
Yagudin vs. Plushenko
Both of them were just so superb. What else do I even need to say? Maybe just that 2002 is my favorite men's Olympic competition since 1992 without a doubt.
Johnny vs. Evan.
Too bad Johnny sort of faded competitively toward the end. They both really made U.S. men's skating more fun than it had been in ages.
Michelle vs. Irina
I love how long these two lasted and how different they were and what fierce competitors they were.
Michelle Kwan vs. Lu Chen
Well, it was short-lived and may sound strange but Lu Chen was Michelle's first international rival and probably the loveliest. That Michelle beat out Lu Chen at age 15 for her first world title makes the accomplishment all the more astonishing. And the Tara-Michelle-Chen Lu 1998 Olympic podium is one of the best ever.
Kristi Yamaguchi vs. Midori Ito
I'm glad Mrs. P mentioned these two. It's the first rivalry I remember and I guess it was only for a short while but it is still emblazoned in my mind. And both are very memorable skaters in their own right and very fierce and fun competitors to watch.
Yuna Kim vs. Mao Asada.
These two are so ahead of the pack when they are on. At their best, they are each other's only competition. I'm so glad Mao Asada brought it on at the Olympics and Worlds to keep that rivalry alive. If only Mao had given herself a better coaching situation, the rivalry would have been even better... But she gave the show over to Yuna too long and it just didn't end on the note on which it began.
I agree with all your points, Layfan. Certainly Kim vs. Asada is a rivalry for the ages even if it doesn't continue past this recent season. To think of a skater like Asada, who is able to do not just one triple axel but three, and also bring musicality and lyrical lightness to the ice, and she's not the top of the heap because there's someone with better jumps than that!--plus equal artistry...that's a feast for any skating fan. Then, to top it off, the two of them skate just about flawlessly (according to their respective strengths) at the Olympics, and they're surrounded by what may be the best final flight in recent memory. If that's not the stuff of legend, then we don't deserve to call ourselves skating fans.
I realized earlier this year (my first one as a poster rather than a lurker on GoldenSkate) that although I generally love all four skating disciplines, I spent most of the season posting almost exclusively on the Ladies' threads. That's when I knew there was something really magnetic going on, and that we were possibly watching history in the making. Now that history has been made, I'm pretty certain that sometime in the dim future, skating fans will envy us because we got to live through this ladies' Olympic final as it happened.


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