Action Alert: Support PERS Transparency

Here in Oregon, Public Employees have nearly become the ruling class. Hopefully, you and I can do something about it:

Please take action today to support transparency in the Public Employee Retirement System in Oregon!

It is in public’s interest to ensure fiscal discipline and transparency in how the underfunded PERS system operates with full disclosure of individual retiree information. Courts across America have agreed, as judges have rejected the weak arguments of the unions. Even Oregon Attorney General Kroger agrees and has forced PERS to release information that any taxpayer can access.

Click here to send a message to the House Business and Labor Committee Co-Chairs Reps.

Oregon legislators are proposing to limit the public transparency of the Oregon retirement program in LC 43. If introduced and passed as a bill, citizens would no longer have the capability to review who is receiving taxpayer-funded pensions. Full government transparency is imperative. Taxpayers have the right to track where and how their tax dollars are being spent, so that government can be held accountable for the distribution of those dollars.

While the rest of the Country continues to create more transparency in government, Oregon seems to be willing to limit the ability for citizens to hold our government accountable. Please take action now!

Thank you for taking time to take action.

Sincerely,



Karla Kay Edwards
State Director
AFP Oregon

h/t Eugene Rant.

I Don't Have A Bubble

One of those quizzes I found at Ace's.


"Result


"On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 13 and 16.

"In other words, you don't even have a bubble."

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. I think I want a bubble.

Boobies!

For those of you who spend time worrying about reality television, I've decided that I need to assuage those concerns, here.

Presto. Boobies.

My name is Joe Biden.

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Can Anyone Make Sense Of This Statement?

I received the following from Senator Wyden's office.

“The Keystone Pipeline is an environmentally risky and economically dubious project that would have boosted the balance sheets of oil producers at the expense of American families. If the pipeline had been approved and Canadian tar sands oil producers had been able to sell their oil to customers throughout the world instead of here in the United States, the already high cost of oil would have gone up for Midwest consumers at a time when budgets are tight as it is. I commend the Obama Administration for siding with the American consumer over the oil industry and not approving a pipeline that would have been painful to the wallets of American families and not in our national interests.”

Wha...?

God Won't Let Us Down

That's the whole post.

Time To Send In The Nerds

We've already sent in the clowns. That would be our elected officials.

There was a time when I had respect, generally, for those elected to Congress. Now that respect is left to a certain few. These people don't deliberate. They, generally, posture. "Stop on-line piracy." Hey, that sounds good. Environmental Protection Agency. Hey, protecting stuff is good, isn't it? Consumer protection. You bet. (Thanks to Rick Santilli.)

And now, we must protect ourselves from the nets. Why? (Sputter.)

Watch this.

Oppose Anti-Piracy Legislation

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