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James
Staff member
Wow, just wow. With the lack of security at this event I'm surprised that we didn't lose a head of state/president. For example this 
guy was standing beside our president. 
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/12/interpreter-for-mandela-memorial-says-was-hallucinating/
guy was standing beside our president. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/12/interpreter-for-mandela-memorial-says-was-hallucinating/
It makes you wonder who is really in charge of events and safety. Obviously our own secret service was clueless as to the ability of this mad man pretending to do something that he had no idea of what he was doing. Come on, you have all these leaders and important people standing around and yet this bozo has clearance to be there and see angels and things coming from all over.Wow, just wow. With the lack of security at this event I'm surprised that we didn't lose a head of state/president. For example this
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/12/interpreter-for-mandela-memorial-says-was-hallucinating/
Maybe I could pretend to be the pilot and fly our president back home.
James
Staff member
Total bummer. I bought a Westfalia when I was 18 and travelled across Canada in it. What a blast!
I still have my 69 I bought in 82, restoration #2.
Dear OCEA member,
Yesterday, the County delivered their last, best and final offer to us. As we conveyed to you, the County’s proposal can only be viewed as retribution for OCEA members standing up to expose the Board of Supervisors’ excessive perks and backroom political deals, opposing their contracting out of our jobs in return for political cash, and cooperating with law enforcement agencies in their investigations regarding some members of the board.
We spent the evening analyzing the offer and how it would impact you and your families. Here is their proposal and our analysis:
·Term through June 11, 2015.
·No pay increase.
·Changes to health insurance that would increase premiums and co-pays for many OCEA members.
·If we agree to the above, the County would agree to drop its proposal to elimnate PIP, reduce standard merit increases to only one step, and to eliminate confidential pay and workers compensation supplemental pay.
In summary, the County’s offer fails to acknowledge the sacrifices each of you have made during the past five years to continue to deliver the best possible services to residents of Orange County. Those sacrifices have included significant pension reforms, no general wage increases, reforms to retiree medical, and increased contributions to health care and retirement. The Board’s proposal ignores all of those sacrifices, which have saved the County more than a billion dollars, and instead wants more from you. And even more insulting, the County threatens to punish us more by eliminating PIP and workers comp supplement pay if we dare to reject the proposal. ABSOLUTE BULLIES!!!
If members vote to accept the County’s proposal, the net impact would be an average 0.4 percent reduction in your take-home pay because of changes to medical rates and benefits.
Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors, who insist on forcing these changes on your families, still do not pay anything toward their own health insurance. And they continue collecting $765/month car allowances—enough to lease two Mercedes—plus other perks. Even worse, they have not stopped their spending spree for campaign contributors, continuing to dole out millions in contracts.
Here are the facts: Allegations of corruption continue to plague the Board of Supervisors. Now the Board is targeting County workers who have stood up to them and exposed their corrupt practices, just like they went after the Grand Jury last year after the Grand Jury released its report about corruption in the County. Neither County workers nor Orange County taxpayers will be treated fairly unless we continue to stand with the Grand Jury and appropriate law enforcement agencies to clean up this County.
Next week, voting will open on the contract. Your bargaining team unanimously recommends you vote to reject the County’s proposal.
We’ll send you an email tomorrow with details about how the vote will work and next steps.
Please continue to read these emails, let your co-workers know about what’s happening, and stand together as one for yourself, your families, your co-workers, and for the residents of Orange County
Yah, I make tons of money on taxpayers, like myself.
Yesterday, the County delivered their last, best and final offer to us. As we conveyed to you, the County’s proposal can only be viewed as retribution for OCEA members standing up to expose the Board of Supervisors’ excessive perks and backroom political deals, opposing their contracting out of our jobs in return for political cash, and cooperating with law enforcement agencies in their investigations regarding some members of the board.
We spent the evening analyzing the offer and how it would impact you and your families. Here is their proposal and our analysis:
·Term through June 11, 2015.
·No pay increase.
·Changes to health insurance that would increase premiums and co-pays for many OCEA members.
·If we agree to the above, the County would agree to drop its proposal to elimnate PIP, reduce standard merit increases to only one step, and to eliminate confidential pay and workers compensation supplemental pay.
In summary, the County’s offer fails to acknowledge the sacrifices each of you have made during the past five years to continue to deliver the best possible services to residents of Orange County. Those sacrifices have included significant pension reforms, no general wage increases, reforms to retiree medical, and increased contributions to health care and retirement. The Board’s proposal ignores all of those sacrifices, which have saved the County more than a billion dollars, and instead wants more from you. And even more insulting, the County threatens to punish us more by eliminating PIP and workers comp supplement pay if we dare to reject the proposal. ABSOLUTE BULLIES!!!
If members vote to accept the County’s proposal, the net impact would be an average 0.4 percent reduction in your take-home pay because of changes to medical rates and benefits.
Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors, who insist on forcing these changes on your families, still do not pay anything toward their own health insurance. And they continue collecting $765/month car allowances—enough to lease two Mercedes—plus other perks. Even worse, they have not stopped their spending spree for campaign contributors, continuing to dole out millions in contracts.
Here are the facts: Allegations of corruption continue to plague the Board of Supervisors. Now the Board is targeting County workers who have stood up to them and exposed their corrupt practices, just like they went after the Grand Jury last year after the Grand Jury released its report about corruption in the County. Neither County workers nor Orange County taxpayers will be treated fairly unless we continue to stand with the Grand Jury and appropriate law enforcement agencies to clean up this County.
Next week, voting will open on the contract. Your bargaining team unanimously recommends you vote to reject the County’s proposal.
We’ll send you an email tomorrow with details about how the vote will work and next steps.
Please continue to read these emails, let your co-workers know about what’s happening, and stand together as one for yourself, your families, your co-workers, and for the residents of Orange County
Yah, I make tons of money on taxpayers, like myself.
James
Staff member
Wow.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014...lpel-instead-guns-seen-as-costly-ineffective/
I'm no hunter but don't most places have a "tag" system where you need to buy "tags" to kill a deer? Why not increase the allowed tags or if need be even pay people to kill deer.
Better yet, setup a program that pays hunters $x to kill a deer and drop them off at the local butcher. Butcher gets paid $x to process the meat and deliver it to a family in need (or homeless shelter). Bet you a $1 that that would cost considerably less than the $1200 they're paying to sterilize a deer, plus people actually benefit from it.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014...lpel-instead-guns-seen-as-costly-ineffective/
I'm no hunter but don't most places have a "tag" system where you need to buy "tags" to kill a deer? Why not increase the allowed tags or if need be even pay people to kill deer.
Better yet, setup a program that pays hunters $x to kill a deer and drop them off at the local butcher. Butcher gets paid $x to process the meat and deliver it to a family in need (or homeless shelter). Bet you a $1 that that would cost considerably less than the $1200 they're paying to sterilize a deer, plus people actually benefit from it.