Pension Reform
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous on a Government Pension Tour Schedule
AFP California took our pension reform efforts on the road in 2011 with our Lifestlyes of the Rich and Famous Tour. We travelled to over 35 cities holding press conferences and rallies to demand reform to a government worker pension system that has run up a $500 billion unfunded liability and left taxpayers holding the bag. California has the most generous government worker pension systems in the country. Over 16,000 former government employees earn over $100,000 per year – and this Golden Parachute club continues to grow every month. Many government workers are paid more in their retirement checks than when they were working. California can no longer sustain union demands that our retired government workers enjoy lifestyles of the rich and famous at taxpayer expense. Please contact your representatives and ask them to support comprehensive pension reform that includes an end to defined benefits, replacing it with a defined contribution (401K) plan.
greetings, superb website, and a great understand! at least one for my favorites.
Darn! I live up here in Santa Barbara county and just got the notice of the tour being up here this LAST Wednesday! Bummer. I would loved to have attended that, especially since it starts at the Reagan Center.
Tom
Where are the meetings in San Jose, San Mateo or San Francisco going to happen? I would like to attend at one of the locations.
I was excited to pass by one of the AFP limos on the 23 freeway yesterday, and gave a little honk on my horn with a thumbs-up. Then from out of nowhere, it seemed, a man driving a beat-up, older model car came rushing up behind me, darted around to the lane next to mine, and flipped me off! I wanted to let him know I thought he was “number one” too, but I refrained..it was the ladylike thing to do.
There is another matter. There are hundreds of thousands of people living in cities north of SF and Sacramento. Virtually no one from major organizations like AFP ever come up here. We even have a fairly large city up here named Santa Rosa which is driving distance from the north coast counties. Then there is Redding over in the valley. How about putting these counties on your radar. —–In Humboldt Co. (Eureka, CA) & (Arcata, CA) over 1/3 of employed people work for the governments. Here we have Humboldt State University, a bloated bureaucracy where perks abound. Hellow? Hellow? As usual the line is dead.
What are the dates for Thousand Oaks, and Woodland Hills??
When will the Bakersfield event happen. I will be ther the first week in June. Hope to join you then.
Great idea….Can you include Salinas/Monterey on the tour schedule…..Tea Party Patriots of Monterey County…and other groups in the area will do all that we can to promote the tour…..?????
Be sure to call local and statewide conservative talk show hosts, including Mark Carbonaro, host of Mark in the Mornings on KION 1460 AM…..to promote AFP’s tour and Petition to Hold Them Accountable!
Beautiful and way past due.
The $6,000,000 lottery hit for a librarian paid out free at taxpayer expense says it all!
California taxpayers are being FLEECED! NO MORE TAXES. I DON’T CARE HOW LIBERAL YOU ARE.