But both Stacie and I received a letter from the EDD yesterday telling us to hire a vet. Wait just a bloody minute we are BOTH looking for work (thank the gods I got an offer today and Stacie got a verbal for tuesday) so how in the BLOODY HELL would we be able to hire a vet? I took this information straight off the EDD web page : http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/countyur-400c.pdf that states that of 8/15/2008 the total of unemployed getting benefits in the state was 1,409,000 people. So doing a little basic math here lets figure ONLY 25% got that letter. that is 352,250 letters that were sent. I figure in bulk the envelope, paper, printing and handling cost about .15 each with a 37.5 cents postage each. That comes to a rough total of $132,622.12. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!! Yet we had to lay off how many state workers because we don't have a budget. Make your mantra be NO INCUMBENTS!!!! Lets get some common sense in Sacramento.
Ottar
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Why are my fellow Californians so self centered?
Not all, but lots of them. I have been back here in California for almost three years now. Not one of those winters has been normal for precipitation. If I remember right last year we were at about 30% of normal. (I am wrong according to the Gubernators proclamation it was 20%) I am quoting a section here: from website http://gov.ca.gov/proclamation/9898/
" WHEREAS statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and"
With this kind of rainfall shortfalls for the past few years I still see people watering their lawns in the middle of the day which promotes rapid evaporation of the precious resource. Over watering so that their is runoff in the gutters. My apartment complex is incredibly bad about this if they try and raise my rent due to a raise in costs of water I believe that it will be an actionable issue. . I believe that instilling the virtue in youth of turning off the water when you don't need it will be one of the first steps needed to have a viable future. I know I would like to still be able to take a shower in 25 years without going to a waterlegger.
It is starting locally here in Folsom. Mandatory water conservation starts September 5th. The city of Folsom requested voluntary conservation hoping for a 20% reduction. They didn't get it so now it becomes mandatory with the water cops able to issue citations. (can you say Tank Girl?) The city will decide on September 9th what further enforcement options to undertake. Fortunately stillsuits are unable to manufactured off of Arrakis. Although maybe its a good idea to start the research. Oh wait according to the other party that is not currently having a convention global warming does not exist. Sounds like a rant for tomorrow.
Have a nice evening,
Ottar
" WHEREAS statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and"
With this kind of rainfall shortfalls for the past few years I still see people watering their lawns in the middle of the day which promotes rapid evaporation of the precious resource. Over watering so that their is runoff in the gutters. My apartment complex is incredibly bad about this if they try and raise my rent due to a raise in costs of water I believe that it will be an actionable issue. . I believe that instilling the virtue in youth of turning off the water when you don't need it will be one of the first steps needed to have a viable future. I know I would like to still be able to take a shower in 25 years without going to a waterlegger.
It is starting locally here in Folsom. Mandatory water conservation starts September 5th. The city of Folsom requested voluntary conservation hoping for a 20% reduction. They didn't get it so now it becomes mandatory with the water cops able to issue citations. (can you say Tank Girl?) The city will decide on September 9th what further enforcement options to undertake. Fortunately stillsuits are unable to manufactured off of Arrakis. Although maybe its a good idea to start the research. Oh wait according to the other party that is not currently having a convention global warming does not exist. Sounds like a rant for tomorrow.
Have a nice evening,
Ottar
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Too many vampires
John Laird democrat from Santa Cruz (Chairman of the budget committee) has such a great attitude for a lawmaker. Even after stating he was on a three hour recall back to Sacramento, which I thought was commendable. He went on to say he was term limited out so could not get reelected anyway. So your a lame duck legislature and it becomes OK to fly half a continent away from your responsibilities even if it is a "once in a lifetime convention". I find that reprehensible, but what should I as a citizen of California expect from one of the state legislature who have not been able to come up with a budget on time in how many years lately?
There were three other people from the California legislature at the convention as well
San Diego Assemblymember Lori Saldana, Los Angeles Senator Alex Padilla, and Shafter Senator Dean Florez. According to the report I saw on the news all four had waived their perdium. I am interested in looking at the public record to see if they actually did. Not that I believe that the lawmakers of this state deserve a paycheck with no budget. Trying to screw the working people and making a perdium more then the average employed person make in California is awful pigs at the public trough to me.
See you tomorrow
Ottar
There were three other people from the California legislature at the convention as well
San Diego Assemblymember Lori Saldana, Los Angeles Senator Alex Padilla, and Shafter Senator Dean Florez. According to the report I saw on the news all four had waived their perdium. I am interested in looking at the public record to see if they actually did. Not that I believe that the lawmakers of this state deserve a paycheck with no budget. Trying to screw the working people and making a perdium more then the average employed person make in California is awful pigs at the public trough to me.
See you tomorrow
Ottar
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sent to Assembly man Ted Gaines
Yet more stirring of the pot:
I have a thought about our current budget issues. I have personally been the benefit of a work force reduction in two separate companies thanks to the outsourcing of my job to overseas. It seems to me that there is something morally wrong with a company that gets it's start in the US. Develops its products due to the innovation of American workers and then lays them off because the work is less expensive overseas. I am wondering about how we can rewrite provisions of the tax code to tax outsourced work to make it cost effective to keep our jobs where they belong. I know it has happened to me personally with Caremark in Rancho Cordova and Hewlett Packard here in Roseville. I also see on the news that AAA is planning on closing it's California call centers and allowing the tax revenue, as well as the wages to be earned in another state. If we made it cost effective to keep those jobs in California would it not go a long way to making our budget balanced? There has to be a way that we can do this.
I am on a roll today
Ottar
I have a thought about our current budget issues. I have personally been the benefit of a work force reduction in two separate companies thanks to the outsourcing of my job to overseas. It seems to me that there is something morally wrong with a company that gets it's start in the US. Develops its products due to the innovation of American workers and then lays them off because the work is less expensive overseas. I am wondering about how we can rewrite provisions of the tax code to tax outsourced work to make it cost effective to keep our jobs where they belong. I know it has happened to me personally with Caremark in Rancho Cordova and Hewlett Packard here in Roseville. I also see on the news that AAA is planning on closing it's California call centers and allowing the tax revenue, as well as the wages to be earned in another state. If we made it cost effective to keep those jobs in California would it not go a long way to making our budget balanced? There has to be a way that we can do this.
I am on a roll today
Ottar
Up to date?
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutDianne.DiannesJournal
Wow the up to dateness of this publicly posted journal inspires cold shivers in my spine. If she had felt a need to keep her constituents up to date then why have a journal on the OFFICIAL US Congress website that is 16 months out of date? If she has nothing to say remove the link from the website.
Ottar
stirring more sh!t
Wow the up to dateness of this publicly posted journal inspires cold shivers in my spine. If she had felt a need to keep her constituents up to date then why have a journal on the OFFICIAL US Congress website that is 16 months out of date? If she has nothing to say remove the link from the website.
Ottar
stirring more sh!t
California Budget woes and not doing your job
I have a new piece of input on the current California Legislature and not doing your job.
If I fail to do what it clearly states is my job I don't work there any more. If I leave unfinished work on my desk and take a vacation , I have no job to return to. Especially if it is not a one time issue but is an ongoing pattern of me not doing my job. How many years in California has it been since we have had a budget completed on time? This link made me even madder then I was when I spoke with some of you face to face.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-vacation23-2008aug23,0,3585055.story
My response to what is going on at the state level of government is to not vote for ANY incumbent lawmaker. With one exception,John Chiang the state controller. He had the Balls to tell the Gubernator NO when told to cut the paychecks of most state employees to the federal minimum wage. He fought the decree in court so at least the checks that go out at the end of this week are unaffected. We will have to see what happens when it goes back to court in early September, we can hope the legislature pulls their heads out but hope in one hand etc. I have too many friends that receive their paychecks from the state of California. They work hard for the money they deserve it. The people who do not deserve it are the BASTARDS in the legislature who cannot seem to pull their heads out of their collective asses and do what we pay them to do. If you read the above linked newspaper report you will see that they are taking time off that JUST HAPPENS to coincide with the democratic convention in Denver this week. How BLOODY convenient. And in the six days they will earn a tax free perdium of approximately $1000.00 each. Nice pay for doing something not your job. Maybe I should run?
Picture the Ottar ticket. Picture the TV ads. Picture pulling the curtain and seeing my name on the ballot. No hanging chads by my constituents. This ain't Florida. While I am marrying into the tribe none of my family is in Miami
That is my rant for Monday, look again tomorrow
Ottar
If I fail to do what it clearly states is my job I don't work there any more. If I leave unfinished work on my desk and take a vacation , I have no job to return to. Especially if it is not a one time issue but is an ongoing pattern of me not doing my job. How many years in California has it been since we have had a budget completed on time? This link made me even madder then I was when I spoke with some of you face to face.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-vacation23-2008aug23,0,3585055.story
My response to what is going on at the state level of government is to not vote for ANY incumbent lawmaker. With one exception,John Chiang the state controller. He had the Balls to tell the Gubernator NO when told to cut the paychecks of most state employees to the federal minimum wage. He fought the decree in court so at least the checks that go out at the end of this week are unaffected. We will have to see what happens when it goes back to court in early September, we can hope the legislature pulls their heads out but hope in one hand etc. I have too many friends that receive their paychecks from the state of California. They work hard for the money they deserve it. The people who do not deserve it are the BASTARDS in the legislature who cannot seem to pull their heads out of their collective asses and do what we pay them to do. If you read the above linked newspaper report you will see that they are taking time off that JUST HAPPENS to coincide with the democratic convention in Denver this week. How BLOODY convenient. And in the six days they will earn a tax free perdium of approximately $1000.00 each. Nice pay for doing something not your job. Maybe I should run?
Picture the Ottar ticket. Picture the TV ads. Picture pulling the curtain and seeing my name on the ballot. No hanging chads by my constituents. This ain't Florida. While I am marrying into the tribe none of my family is in Miami
That is my rant for Monday, look again tomorrow
Ottar
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Evils of Outsourcing
So many of Americas corporations seem to have forgotten what they are built on. The industriousness and savvy of American workers. Companies that I have worked for specifically are Hewlett Packard and Sykes Enterprises. Both companies have cost me jobs by outsourcing to overseas. Hewlett Packard decided that they could have my job done by contract admins in Costa Rica, Sykes did the same thing by having there already third party tech support done in Indai and The Philippines. Both places were good jobs for the geographic area I was in but the company decided they could make more money by paying a lesser amount to overseas workers and increase their own profits thereby. They seem to have forgotten that the workers of America were what made them strong enough to expand. As an American worker I am disgusted by this trend. If we as US workers would stick to a boycott of foreign services they would not be so prevalent. I for one will from now on not spend my money (which currently comes from an unemployment check) on anything that is not a domestic product. How can I be so hurt by losing my position to cheaper overseas labor and continue to support the economies of those that have cost me my job? I can no longer justify it in my mind and I strongly urge others to take these steps. We are a government of the PEOPLE and if enough people shout loudly enough the people in Washington and in my case Sacramento will be forced to listen. I am not foolish enough to think my stance alone will be able to accomplish anything but if my friends can jump on this bandwagon and invite their friends etcetera etcetera we can get a movement that can encourage economic growth to come home to America.
How many of us are in the same boat? In my group of close friends we are running about 50% unemployed. Most not from any fault of their own. My wife and I were both given a work force reduction layoff because the company (HP) gave our bosses an ultimatum to cut our headcount at the campus we were at. They at the same time increased the volume of work they sent overseas. At the same time the US is going through one of the worst economic times that I can remember in my life. People losing their houses to foreclosure since they are now unemployed from jobs they have had for years. People forced to live on their credit cards because of this further eroding their ability to make a living. If we can band together we can start the ground swell back to jobs in the US. This should help our economy in general and we as a people in specific. I am reminded of the words in "Thew Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A Heinlein here Importado? I wont touch it if it Importado (paraphrased). I can now understand how that should be a battle cry for those of us who want to see a glimpse of returning prosperity.
Ottar
How many of us are in the same boat? In my group of close friends we are running about 50% unemployed. Most not from any fault of their own. My wife and I were both given a work force reduction layoff because the company (HP) gave our bosses an ultimatum to cut our headcount at the campus we were at. They at the same time increased the volume of work they sent overseas. At the same time the US is going through one of the worst economic times that I can remember in my life. People losing their houses to foreclosure since they are now unemployed from jobs they have had for years. People forced to live on their credit cards because of this further eroding their ability to make a living. If we can band together we can start the ground swell back to jobs in the US. This should help our economy in general and we as a people in specific. I am reminded of the words in "Thew Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A Heinlein here Importado? I wont touch it if it Importado (paraphrased). I can now understand how that should be a battle cry for those of us who want to see a glimpse of returning prosperity.
Ottar
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