B-Man Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 California State University hid a $1.5 billion surplus while raising tuition. Where is the accountability? Here we go again: Another scandal involving a state-funded entity hoarding a secret stockpile of money. This time, an investigation by California State Auditor Elaine Howle discovered $1.5 billion in surplus funds hidden in outside accounts controlled by the California State University system. Yes, that’s billion with a “b.” While CSU was squirreling away this massive fortune, it was simultaneously raising tuition costs for students and begging the California State Legislature for more money. “CSU put the money, which primarily came from student tuition, in outside accounts rather than in the state Treasury,” according to a story by The Sacramento Bee’s Sawsan Morrar. We’ve seen this story before. In 2017, Howle’s office busted the University of California Chancellor’s Office for hiding a $175 million slush fund from public view – while also hiking tuition on students. People should do jail time for this mishandling of funds. The Sacramento Bee asks: “How many more times will we learn of secretive massive funds, hidden from view by so-called public servants who apparently consider themselves above the rules?” The answer is, as long as there’s no penalty for doing so. . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 ^ It wasn’t in violation of the union contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Tales from the states (red states) that refused to accept Obamacare funding: Quote CLEVELAND, TENN. — They were told to arrive early if they wanted to see a doctor, so Lisa and Stevie Crider left their apartment in rural Tennessee almost 24 hours before the temporary medical clinic was scheduled to open. They packed a plastic bag with what had become their daily essentials after 21 years of marriage: An ice pack for his recurring chest pain. Tylenol for her swollen feet. Peroxide for the abscess in his mouth. Gatorade for her low blood sugar and chronic dehydration. They took a bus into the center of Cleveland, Tenn., a manufacturing town of 42,000, and slept for a few hours at a budget motel. Then they awoke in the middle of the night and walked toward the first-come, first-served clinic, bringing along a referral from a social worker for what they hoped would be their first doctor’s checkup in more than four years. “Urgent needs from head to toe,” the social worker had written. “Lacking primary care and basic medication. They have fallen into the gap.” Only when Stevie and Lisa arrived at the clinic a little after 2 a.m. did it occur to them how large that medical gap has become in parts of rural America. Dozens of people were sprawled out in sleeping bags on the asphalt parking lot. Others had pitched tents on an adjacent lawn. The lot was already filled with more than 300 cars from all over the rural South, where a growing number of people in medical distress wait for hours at emergency clinics in order to receive basic primary care. Tennessee has lost 14 percent of its rural physicians and 18 percent of its rural hospitals in the past decade, leaving an estimated 2.5 million residents with insufficient access to medical care. The federal government now estimates that a record 50 million rural Americans live in what it calls "health care shortage areas," where the number of hospitals, family doctors, surgeons and paramedics has declined to 20-year lows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-clinic-of-last-resort/2019/06/22/2833c8a0-92cc-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html?utm_term=.2956664a85ad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 12 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Tales from the states (red states) that refused to accept Obamacare funding: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-clinic-of-last-resort/2019/06/22/2833c8a0-92cc-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html?utm_term=.2956664a85ad What a failure Obamacare is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatdrought Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 On 6/21/2019 at 3:46 PM, Deranged Rhino said: Today on "This is California" -- I go out to my car only to find a homeless guy UNDER it, passed out from whatever he was shooting into his arm (needle still in it). Sad to see, took forever to get sorted. The cops show up and the guy was nice all things considered, said he got lost trying to get out of my car. The cop goes, "that's because you were under the car." He responded, "I'm not under, I'm hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh" and laughed all the way into the back of the squad car. I assume the nice policemen were just giving him a ride down to the government provided clean shoot up location, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 23 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said: What a failure Obamacare is. Why do you even come here if everything you say and think a lie? People like you are seriously the backbone of Trump's support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedge Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Elected to represent the people who couldn't elect him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 CALIFORNIA, HERE BE MONSTERS: J. Frank Bullitt, writing on Issues & Insights, catalogues the once-Golden State’s current and growing woes as driving factors in the creation of what Victor Davis Hanson calls “America’s first Third-World state.” . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 THE NEWS FROM NEWSOM FTA: Citing Newsom’s tweeted video (below), Monica Showalter writes: “I thought it was satire, something cooked up by his political enemies. You couldn’t put out a less attractive video than the one Gavin Newsom did for illegal aliens on Twitter, advising them himself on how to obstruct ICE from any deportation maneuvers. And sure enough, he wasn’t hacked — it really was blue-checked he.” I yield to Monica’s American Thinker post “California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom puts out a video for illegals on how to obstruct ICE.” Quotable quote: “And more creepy still, [Newsom] cites the ‘three strikes’ law, as if to acknowledge that illegals commit quite a few crimes while they are here sopping up the services.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 13 minutes ago, B-Man said: THE NEWS FROM NEWSOM FTA: Citing Newsom’s tweeted video (below), Monica Showalter writes: “I thought it was satire, something cooked up by his political enemies. You couldn’t put out a less attractive video than the one Gavin Newsom did for illegal aliens on Twitter, advising them himself on how to obstruct ICE from any deportation maneuvers. And sure enough, he wasn’t hacked — it really was blue-checked he.” I yield to Monica’s American Thinker post “California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom puts out a video for illegals on how to obstruct ICE.” Quotable quote: “And more creepy still, [Newsom] cites the ‘three strikes’ law, as if to acknowledge that illegals commit quite a few crimes while they are here sopping up the services.” i'm not sure those rights apply to non-US citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 1 minute ago, Foxx said: i'm not sure those rights apply to non-US citizens. Gavin, and subsequently California, says they do. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, B-Man said: Gavin, and subsequently California, says they do. . so, i was right, they don't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 28 minutes ago, Foxx said: so, i was right, they don't. They do. Constitutional rights apply to anyone in the country. However, it is not an "unlawful search" if ICE shows up at your door with a deportation order. Newsom is not only wrong on that point, he's dangerously wrong, enough to get someone killed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 (humanitary ) couldn't help it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 5 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said: (humanitary ) couldn't help it. That's nothing. He should go to downtown LA, not Sunset Blvd. They line both sides of the streets for blocks upon blocks upon blocks. You have to see it to believe it. Just horrible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, DC Tom said: They do. Constitutional rights apply to anyone in the country. However, it is not an "unlawful search" if ICE shows up at your door with a deportation order. Newsom is not only wrong on that point, he's dangerously wrong, enough to get someone killed. right. i just remembered why we held (hold?) prisoners (terrorists) in Guantanamo. Edited June 25, 2019 by Foxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatdrought Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I actually don't have a problem with what the governor said, even if he looks like a total schmuck and seems potentially high in the video. I want illegal aliens deported, but I don't want the pursuit of that to come at the expense of anyone's rights. It needs to be done properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 36 minutes ago, whatdrought said: I actually don't have a problem with what the governor said, even if he looks like a total schmuck and seems potentially high in the video. I want illegal aliens deported, but I don't want the pursuit of that to come at the expense of anyone's rights. It needs to be done properly. I’m dying to find out what your definition of ‘properly’ looks like. Is it the same as ‘when no one’s watching’? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatdrought Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Just now, SoCal Deek said: I’m dying to find out what your definition of ‘properly’ looks like. Is it the same as ‘when no one’s watching’? What the heck are you talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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