Waste, Fraud and Abuse

What govt. workers really think of their mammoth pay, perks, pleasures and pensions
Thursday, April 5th, 2012

April 5, 2012 By John Seiler Ever wonder what government workers think of their gigantic pay, perks, pleasures and pensions? All paid for by IRS-strangled taxpayers, of course. Wonder no more. A top-ranked government official has written this little ditty to explain it all for you: &nb...

Who Subsidized the Electric Car?
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Revenge of the Electric Car

John Seiler: A 2006 documentary is called, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" According to IMDB.com, it's "A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future." It's narrated by leftist bigshot Martin S...

NBC-S.D. Quotes Me on Food Stamps
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

John Seiler: Here's the clip of me appearing on NBC-San Diego talking about food stamp abuse. The great host is Christine Haas: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/#!/news/local/Suspicion-Surrounds-Food-Stamp-Use/140439093 (Note: I originally had the video imbeded, but that stopped working. Cl...

Watch Me On San Diego TV 11 pm
Friday, February 24th, 2012
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John Seiler: Tonight -- Feb. 24 -- at 11 pm California time I'll be on NBC News in San Diego, Channel 7. Their great new anchor, Christine Haas, interview me about food stamp abuse by Californians. But if you don't live in America's Finest City, you need not worry. Christine is going to send m...

OC Unions Right, Businesses Wrong
Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Steven Greenhut: It's not every day that I side with the public employee unions. In fact, it's almost never the case, yet the Orange County Employees Association, community activists and the Occupy types were exactly right recently when they protested a plan by the Anaheim City Council to provide $1...

Iron Man Goes To North Carolina
Friday, October 28th, 2011
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Katy Grimes: California is losing out on more job creation opportunities to yet another state. Despite the $100 million in tax credits recently extended to Hollywood filmmakers by the state Legislature, the next Iron Man production will be in North Carolina. "The production is expected to cre...

A Role Model Tattoo Barbie
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
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Katy Grimes: It's hard to tell if Barbie has gone ghetto or white trash. Mattel has just released a $50 Barbie complete with tattoos, sleazy punk, clothes and leopard leggings. What happened to the flat-chested Midge doll, or even modest Barbie? Don't girls play with bald baby dolls anymore? ...

Welfare as Wave Life: Don’t Blame it on Rio
Friday, July 29th, 2011

K. Lloyd Billingsley: As the Los Angeles Times noted last year, welfare “clients,” as the system calls them, were using their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards to spend millions in casinos and on cruise ships headed for Rio de Janeiro. All clients going out on the town this weekend should...

Will Salaries Sink CIRM?
Friday, July 8th, 2011

Lloyd Billingsley: The Los Angeles Times is editorializing that outlandish salaries at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, will “will go a long way toward assuring the institute's extinction.” But the Times is leaving out another factor that could sink the state stem cell i...

Subsidizing A Broke Sacramento
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Katy Grimes: Sacramento is living proof that the left hand doesn't know what the other left hand is doing. Forget the right hand - there is no "right" in Sacramento. Despite the city's $60 million deficit, city officials and several members of the Sacramento City Council want to forge ahead with ...