Orange County, CA Supervisor John Moorlach is the only elected official on the Board of Supervisors who has a financial background. As a former CPA he has been very vocal about the influence of the public safety unions that use their political powers to elect politicians with their hefty membership dues to gain retroactive pension benefits that are about to force the County into a second bankruptcy.
State Receivership Commission?
In this short video news blog Moorlach describes how the public employee unions are threatening the entire state and the only way out would be to place the state into a receivership commission. He hopes that Governor Schwarzenegger will appoint a Receivership Board that will take the check book away from the state legislators who cannot balance the books. And he suggests the same should be done in the federal government.
Retroactive Raise in Benefits Challenged In Court
In the mean time the County is suing to roll back the retroactive pension benefits given to the public safety unions buy the Supervisors. Moorlach predicts that dire circumstances if something is not done. And suggests that elected officials are the
problem when they accept campaign contributions from the public employee unions.
Segment #1 (8 min): OC Supervisor John Moorlach discusses the retroactive pension benefit increases for Sheriff's Deputies created an overnight massive debt for Orange County who had gone bankrupt in 1994 and now is in peril again. He cites that CALPERS the State Employee Pension agency is comprised of 2/3rds public employee union representatives. Instead of investing in bonds and equities, they opted for higher benefits by supporting the retroactive raise to 3 percent at age 50 retirement age. The County has filed a lawsuit that Superior Court Judge wanted rid of, so an Appeal was filed and it is expected that the State Supreme Court will eventually address.
Segment #2 (8 min): RETROACTIVE BENEFITS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES? Orange County VOTERS APPROVED MEASURE "J" requiring voter approval for increases to public employee benefits. Supervisor John Moorlach tells Full Disclosure Network that because public employee unions have huge campaign war chests from union dues, the Democrat Party has become the "labor party" that is running the legislature in Sacramento. Cities like Maywood are no longer hiring, but turning to contract employees and many small cities are looking to merge to share expenses. All this caused by the pensions and benefit crisis.
Segment #3 (8 min): PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNION CONCESSIONS Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach tells Full Disclosure Network the economic crisis is providing an opportunity....that being "it is time to confront the public employee unions to roll back the pensions" . He says union leadership seems earnestly willing to protect jobs with concessions to avoid bankruptcy.
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John Braehler San Diego
Posted: 12:12 am [PST] on May 11 2011
The cost to the citizenry of not providing free equitable advertising costs instead allowing our employees to bribe and controle them outright is a non sustainable economy. We Are Bankrupt. Thanks for being on top of it.
John Braehler San Diego
Posted: 12:05 am [PST] on May 11 2011
As I recall in accounting an obligation wiich leads to bankruptsy is bad when it is writen. Unsustainable by todays beneficierys alone Wages and especialy retirement benefits provided by elected by unions conflicted by the funding of thior contributors and union voters are illigal and were illigal when provided. The sooner we declare bankruptsy establish what a sustainable compensation is and provide only it the less the pain will be.
JOHN KEARNS ORANGE COUNTY, CA
Posted: 07:28 am [PST] on December 08 2010
Government employees don't need unions since they never loose their jobs or get laid off. It's just a slush fund for the Democrats running for offices.
Joanne Hughes Sacramento, CA 95829
Posted: 11:55 am [PST] on September 08 2010
We need to get rid of all the decomracts in Sacramento and start all over again.
Joan Radcliff Sylmar, CA
Posted: 12:57 pm [PST] on August 31 2010
I doubt that the Union Membership are ever aware of the facts that are exposed in your coverage of this video. The Union Leaders feed the greed that seems natural to we humans. Interview a few of them?
JanetHARVEY27 Location unknown
Posted: 09:52 pm [PST] on August 17 2010
I guess that to receive the loans from banks you ought to present a good reason. Nevertheless, once I've got a sba loan, because I wanted to buy a building.
DyingTruth Westminster CA
Posted: 09:26 am [PST] on August 05 2010
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness.
although it is starting to dawn people it hasn't really taken full effect that the pension scandal in foreclosure crisis or two in the same cause and affect, that's what happens when you let public officials judicial branch and the executive indulge in predatory investing and lending mess around with mortgage-backed securities and real estate investment trusts not to mention straight selling us out to China am allowing foreign aliens own United States property (which our founding fathers strictly prohibited) and become citizens and take our places. this is not how a responsible government insurers domestic tranquility, all public officials reviewed discharged by the public removed from office in all courts and Judiciary need to be shut down, because there doing the exact opposite of their intended purpose which is to serve the people instead of enslaving people which is basically what a democracy is and why our founding fathers prohibited a democracy guaranteed to everyone of the states and the union or Republic. because once you get a large enough group together with enough power like an oversized government, told so much easier just to overpower oppress and abuse smaller groups selectively for their own financial gain and benefit. Just because most of these clowns make the law or laws i should say or sit upon a high chair in a black robe and makeup law and enforce them, doesn't necessarily mean that what they're doing is legal. we still have the Declaration of Independence we still have the Constitution not the supreme law of the land. there is power in numbers but we need to be smart and we need to organize. if we start a statewide movement and we start organizing by cities and individual counties, we'll get together signed petitions some amount to the public officials giving them warning that we're not asking for reform, we're telling them to step down. Give them a deadline pick a date convenient for everyone in the community then all rally and mob on their offices to oust them. if we don't do something like this soon we'll have another LA riots on our hands at the entire state level.
EllieB Sylmar
Posted: 10:46 pm [PST] on August 04 2010
Love Unions in theory... but practice needs some cleaning up and benefits need to be better controlled... the public employees are the toughest now
County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price County of San Diego
Posted: 12:41 pm [PST] on July 28 2010
About time! Hoorah for John Moorlach!!
Tough Love CA
Posted: 05:52 pm [PST] on July 27 2010
Until now, I have strongly advocated for reducing pension formulas for FUTURE years of service for CURRENT (as well as new) workers ...... a VERY unpopular position in the eyes of those riding the Civil Servant gravy train.
I'm about to become even more unpopular with this group, as I now believe the likelihood of this happening (soon enough and with sufficient formula reductions) is so low that a much better direction, and perhaps the ONLY way to avoid the financial disaster bearing down on communities throughout the nation is to OUTSOURCE 90+%of all Civil Servant positions.
The CRITICAL CRITICAL CRITICAL need is to STOP the further growth of the pension liability from the excessive pension formulas granted EXISTING employees, and the ONLY way to do this quickly and VERY effectively is OUTSOURCING.
And guess what … it's ALREADY been tested … and the sky didn’t fall in … and the residents of Maywood, CA seem very pleased with the results of outsourcing 100% of their employees. Read all about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/business/20maywood.html?pagewanted=2