{"id":69336,"date":"2016-12-09T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69336"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:55:09","slug":"more-liberal-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69336","title":{"rendered":"More Liberal Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at American Thinker, publisher, Thomas Lifson, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/mayor_of_oakland_warns_against_scapegoating_lavishly_paid_city_employees_who_failed_to_inspect_deathtrap_warehouse_in_30_years.html\">lead piece today<\/a> about what investigations into the Oakland warehouse fire which killed thirty-six have uncovered so far. Not so unsurprisingly, the decrepit building had not been inspected for thirty years but what is much more enlightening (and infuriating) is the annual compensation paid to those city employees responsible for such public safety inspections:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <em>\u2026in 2015, Craig K. Chew, the assistant chief of inspectors, made $362,211, $147,000 of which was &#8220;benefits.&#8221;  The Alameda County administrator Susan Muranishi made $729,162 in 2015, of which $313,503 was in &#8220;benefits,&#8221; which included bonuses. <\/p>\n<p>The Alameda County sheriff, Greg Ahern, made $627,935 in that one year. <\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One has to wonder what the chief of inspectors makes if his assistant gets that kind of money. And of course none of these overpaid hogs at the public trough will be held accountable for all those needless deaths. The entire state of California, like most political entities under the governance of liberal Democrats and in thrall to public unions is headed for financial disaster when all these overpaid public servants retire at 80% of their highest pay. The Dallas Police and Fireman\u2019s Pension Fund board had to put an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21711335-pensions-crisis-has-been-brewing-decades-and-it-not-confined-dallas\">emergency stop<\/a> on lump-sum pension distributions this week, after panic withdrawals threatened to swamp its cash reserves.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot more of that coming in Democrat-controlled enclaves like New York City, Chicago, and Detroit, for starters. Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at American Thinker, publisher, Thomas Lifson, has a lead piece today about what investigations into &hellip; <a title=\"More Liberal Insanity\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69336\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Liberal Insanity<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}