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June 17, 2012 CAL WATCH DOG | STEVEN GREENHUT Despicable Group Shutting Doors Now, the Union Pushback June 14, 2012 INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | STEVEN GREENHUT Union Pension and Benefit Reforms June 14, 2012 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Think Long Comes Up Short June 14, 2012 BLOOMBERG.COM | STEVEN GREENHUT The Wrong Way to Fix California June 13, 2012 US NEWS | STEVEN GREENHUT ID Rules Prevent Fraudulent Vote Schemes in Key Districts June 12, 2012 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Now, the Union Pushback June 12, 2012 FOX BUSINESS NEWS | STEVEN GREENHUT California Voters Choosing Between Tax Hikes or Service Cuts WI, CA voters send a message to Big Governmen June 9, 2012 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT FROM FULLERTON TO SAN JOSE THE VOTERS GOT IT RIGH June 6, 2012 PUBLIC SECTOR | STEVEN GREENHUT San Jose's mayor addresses legal challenge June 5, 2012 CAL WATCH | STEVEN GREENHUT Unions trounced in Wisconsin, California June 6, 2012 CAL WHINE | STEVEN GREENHUT Flashreport, Greenhut warnings on Fletcher vindicated 10-fold June 2 2012 THE MODESTO BEE | STEVEN GREENHUT San Jose shows the way out of pension sinkhole May 31, 2012 WISCONSIN REPORTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Even after Act 10, public workers outpace others A Progressive’s Progress Real progressives should support WI’s Scott Walke May 29, 2012 BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WATCHDOGS: Cal pols hide public workers' names When Government Privileges Trump the Rights of Citizens Jerry Brown’s Broken Budget More Gimmicks, Less Honesty Yes, There’s a Case for Staying in California May 11, 2012 PUBLIC SECTOR | STEVEN GREENHUT The Best Outcomes for Cash Strapped Cities in America? How the Kelly Thomas Beating Sparked a Citizen Revolt How Big Government Makes Life Worse California’s Law-and-Order Culture Shows Cracks April 27, 2012 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT California to middle class: drop dead April 27, 2012 PRESS DEMOCRAT face="Arial">ial">| STEVEN GREENHUT Pro teams play cities for fools April 20, 2012 REASON | STEVEN GREENHUT America’s Slide Toward a Police State Attacks on ALEC hypocritical and unfair Cities don't win in stadium deals Reform by Any Other Name April 16, 2012 BLOOMBERG.COM | STEVEN GREENHUT Sacramento Is Fresh Victim of Bad Stadium Deals April 14, 2012 WATCH DOG Todd Spitzer on the Road to Damascus April 13, 2012 REASON | STEVEN GREENHUT the Public Transportation Boondoggle April 10, 2012 KOREA HEROLD| STEVEN GREENHUTHigh-speed rail takes Californians for a ride April 8, 2012 BLOOMBERG.COM | STEVEN GREENHUT High-Speed Rail Takes Californians for a Ride America's Reefer Madness California Schools Need Radical Reform, Not Tinkering March 12, 2012 WISCONSIN REPORTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Journalists still fighting old media battles Would you trust this bunch with your pension? Sky didn't fall, but pols went back to spending Manhattan Moment: Fiscal mess coming soon to a city near you BROKEN WINDOWS, BROKEN CITY If Stockton is broke then why not California? No wonder the nation doesn't like us Feb 24, 2012 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT San Jose and the Elephant in the Room Bankruptcy may be only way out for cities, states California’s Shocking Show of Fiscal Fortitude Steven Greenhut’s plunder views Pro-Union Activism at the California Justice Department Feb 17, 2012 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Harris distorts democracy to aid unions Deputies Union Poisons Shooting Review California government employees lack rights! Kamala Harris' Mockery of the Democratic Process Feb 13, 2012 PUBLIC SECTO | STEVEN GREENHUT Obama Mortgage Deal Bails Out CalPERS Feb 10, 2012 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Open children's court best for kids, taxpayers Taxpayers Prop Up California's House of Cards Feb 5, 2012 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Ding, dong, redevelopment is dead Feb 4, 2012 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Think Long Come Up Short Stop Rewarding Irresponsibility Obama Defends Bailouts, Handouts and Cop-Outs Jerry Brown's Failed Vision for California Blight barons of redevelopment plot comeback Jan 2, 2012 REASON.COM | STEVEN GREENHUT Rampant Corruption in California Redistricting California Senate Banishes Pension Truth-Teller Dems won’t tolerate pension dissent Dec. 30, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT More proof of redistricting manipulation by Democrats RDA'S HOISTED ON OWN CA SUPREMES KILL REDEVELOPMENT Freedom flagging, regardless who wins White House Political games, manipulation from Democrats in California redistricting process Dec. 19, 2011 REASON.COM | STEVEN GREENHUT Fixing California's Broken Legislature Could more lawmakers do less harm? Jerry Brown's Disastrous Plan for California The real message in Gov. Brown's ‘open letter' California 'The Big State That Can't' (Or Won't) with Martha Montelongo and CalWatchDog CA's Prospects for Liberty and Prosperity Nov. 28, 2011 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUTCan’t Live by Scenery Alone All California Needs Is A Massive Tax Hike! Nov. 25, 2011 APPEAL DEMOCATE.COM | STEVEN GREENHUT'Think Long' report comes up short Conservatives Side With Pepper-Spraying Thug Nov. 23, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUTGetting serious about Ron Paul Op-Ed: A pension head fake Nov. 17, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT GOP needs to rethink immigration Nov. 14, 2011 REASON MAGAZINE | STEVEN GREENHUT Corporate Welfare and the California GOP Jerry Brown's Failed Pension Reforms Slumping Revenues, Rising Pay Rural Rebellion Brewing Oct. 26, 2011 THE NEW YORK TIMES | STEVEN GREENHUT Honesty, Not More Subsidies Bureaucrats don't mind jobs 'leakage' Oct. 21, 2011 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT All in the "Family" If Only Cities Could Tax Us More! Oct. 19, 2011 PUBLIC SECTOR | STEVEN GREENHUT 'Jerry Brown's Union Salute' Gov. Jerry Brown Shows His Union Label Oct. 17, 2011 CAL WATCHDOG | STEVEN GREENHUT SILENCING LOCAL GOVERMENT TRUTH-TELLER Pension pots calling kettles black Delta Water Rules Smelt of Extremism Sep. 28, 2011 HUMAN EVENTS | STEVEN GREENHUT Heed Your Libertarian Impulse, Gov. Brown Sep 18, 2011 SF EXAMINER | STEVEN GREENHUT City leaders playing unfair pension politics Sep 6, 2011 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT The Conventional Jerry Brown Sep. 16, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Pension wars will be fought at city hall Sep 12, 2011 HUMAN EVENTS | STEVEN GREENHUT Your Government Still the Main Threat to Your Freedoms Jimmy Hoffa Won't Apologize Sep. 2, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Schools chief's sacrifice not so heroic Aug. 31, 2011 PUBLIC SECTOR | STEVEN GREENHUT Ranking public union clout in the states Aug. 31, 2011 PUBLIC SECTOR | STEVEN GREENHUT Pittsburgh Struggles to Avoid Pension Takeover Aug. 26, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Pension funds should get real on rate of return Aug. 25, 2011 OFF THE CUFF WITH ADAM TRAGONE Episode #7: Steven Greenhut Welcome To The Hotel California GOING GETS TOUGH State Legislature fights evil unfitted sheets Villaraigosa wants more of what doesn't work Aug. 14, 2011 PUBLIC SECTOR INC. | STEVEN GREENHUT The Police Union Myth That Won't Go Away Aug. 11, 2011 PUBLIC SECTOR INC. | STEVEN GREENHUT Teachers Unions Stand Up For Pension Spiking Fury in Fullerton Left wins redistricting game in California When Heroes Become Bureaucrats July 31, 2011 PUBLIC SECTOR INC. | STEVEN GREENHUT Unions Sponsor Despicable Scare Ads Jerry Brown picks his kind of judge Making the Public Pay For Budget Cuts July 21, 2011 CAL WATCHDOG | STEVEN GREENHUT Secession plan not as funny as it seems Death a bigger threat to fed workers than firing July 19, 2011 LA TIMES | STEVEN GREENHUTThe Alameda incident: 'First responders' who don't LEGISLATORS CRY: 'LESS POWER TO THE PEOPLE' Redevelopment Agencies On the Brink California’s Nutty Budget Battle June 3, 2011 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Proving the Redevelopment Rule June 3, 2011 CAL WATCHDOG | STEVEN GREENHUT RICCI ZOMBECK WOULD LET YOUR KIDS DROWN Unions and GOP halt sentencing reform How California prisons got so bad May 15, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Unions say, ‘Shut up and pay us' Spring 2011 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Little Pain, Real Gains May 6, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Prop. 13 still the Left's bogeyman Video Public servants – more money, less accountability Counerintuitive or Just Dumb? California's Unaccountable Public Servants April 27, 2011 VOICE OF OC | STEVEN GREENHUTThe OC Morning Report California GOvernment Pensions VideoHow big a problem are public-sector pensions? Video April 26, 2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Editorial: Pension rollbacks poll well April 17, 2011 ELECTION LAW BLOG STEVEN GREENHUT How to dilute the power of politicians Spring 2011 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUTCalifornia’s Secret Government 4/1/11 CAL WATCHDOG | STEVEN GREENHUT Brown’s Pension Reform A Yawner BILL HANDEL Unions Ignore Pension Realities 3/12/11 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUTJerry Brown's Good Deed Gets Punished 3/6/11 Steven Greenhut's radio interview Redding Tea Party & All Their Friends 3/6/11 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Pensions pushing California to the brink Steven Greenhut 3/5/11 Whiskey & Gunpowder | STEVEN GREENHUT How Gov't Employee Unions Plundered the Public’s Money 3/4/11 STEVEN GREENHUT on The OC Show with Cameron Jackson Could Wisconsin happen in California? 2/22/11 STEVEN GREENHUT on KPAM 860 AM Portland 6:10 am BILL HANDEL KFI Doug McIntyre KABC870 Larry Elder ShowKABC870 KQED San Francisco Cities go on wild spending sprees Martha Montelongo's radio show KRLA Los Angeles Californians need to suffer more Rally reveals pro-union Republicans CRA'S LINDA BARTON: DEER IN HEADLIGHTS 2/1/2011 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Balancing California's unwieldy budget Is Jerry Brown Serious About Pension Reform? by Matt WelchIs Brown dodging pension reform? The Andy Coldwell Show 2/20/11 OC REGISTER OPINION Steven Greenhut's column 2/2010 Claremont Review of Books Kenneth P. Miller Neither Civil Nor Servants Pension Problem Not Going Away 12/6/2010 PUBLIC SECTOR INC. | STEVEN GREENHUT Financial Markets Won't Fix Pensions More pension abuses, not enough reform ideas 12/1//2010 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT San Francisco’s Pension Reckoning 11/27//2010 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT California an addict yet to hit bottom 11/24//2010 THE FREEMAN | STEVEN GREENHUT Free-Speech Clarity by California Courts Groping toward Gomorrah Economies of scale' don't apply to government 11/6//2010 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT State GOP verging on irrelevant 11/3//2010 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Impervious California GOP gets undeserved second chance 10/29/2010 OC REGISTER | STEVEN GREENHUT Scariest things on the ballot 10/26/2010 CITY JOURNAL | STEVEN GREENHUT Smoke Mirrors in Sacramento: California’s latest state budget is a fraud. Our Nation is Bankrupt Firefighters Fiddle While Roseville Burns Pro-union study twists stats, takes public for saps 10/24/2010 NORTH COUNTY TIMES | STEVEN GREENHUT Lies, damn lies and union statistics 10/22/2010 THE NEW YORK TIMES | STEVEN GREENHUT The Democrats and the Union Label--A Bad Word in California 10/22/2010 OC REGISTER Steven Greenhut | STEVEN GREENHUT Nelson vs. Sidhu a snore this time 10/20/2010 THE SUN SAN BERNARDINO CA | STEVEN GREENHUT Rialto school chief gets $225K salary plus pension Broken California Is California now an idiocracy? Bill Bennett's Morning in America Show with guest host former Senator Rick Santorum.The Chris Reed Show --600AM KOGO San Diego More pension horrors, no fixes Bruce Bialosky Plundered by Our Own Employees Bill Handel's Show - Listen in if you have a chance. (KFI - AM640). It's pension reform for California or bust 9/30/2010 Steven Greenut, speaks about the dangers of public labor unions Berkeley The Dennis Prager Show Big Labor Smackdown 9/24/2010 Steven Greenhut speaks in Orlando at the conference American Dream Coalition More 'fixes' won't fix California No Money, No Movement Calif. Pensions Underfunded by $500B Media Monitoring 9/15/2010 Fox Business News Daytime with Brian Sullivan: Steven Greenhut discusses the pension crisis Steven Greenhut: Some fight the good fight for freedom The Conservative Forum Progressives for Pension Reform? Is the Legislature Making Pension Crisis Worse? Puncturing the Left’s myths about the public pension crisis Nieman Watchdog REDLANDS DAILY FACTS Bill Handel KFI Los Angeles The Dennis Prager Show 8/13/10 FOX Business News Eric Bolling's Money Rocks Show at 5 pm Pacific. Holistic Survival in Uncertain Times podcast The Ever-Shameless Jerry Brown by Steven Greenhut California dreaming of better budget days Death and Taxes by Steven Greenhut BELL RINGS IN TEA PARTY SPIRIT BIG GOVERNMENT Bill Handel Show KFI LA discuss the City of Bell Do public employees 'plunder' us? (vote in poll) Public Servants vs. the Public Damon W. Root | July 20, 2010 Steven Greenhut on Public Employee Paychecks, Perks, and Plunder The Economic Warrior Blog by Barry James Dyke Public Employee Unions: On the Defensive? 6/18/2010 KNZR Bakersfield with host Adriane MooreTaking On The Unions In California — And Winning Book Review Embracing Another Gimmick by Steven Greenhut Unions Battle Reform in GOP Stronghold by Steven Greenhut Can States Fix Their Pension Problems? From the office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Book Review: Five Thumbs Up for Steve Greenhut's Plunder! Furor over Government Employees Steven Greenhut: Even abusive public employees can't get fired Steven Greenhut: Do public safety officials die early? World Net Daily Exclusive VALLEJO GOES FOR BROKE Opinion Journal Vallejo's Painful Lessons in Municipal Bankruptcy BARRON'S THE $2 TRILLION HOLE WISCONCIN PUBLIC RADIO THE ARMSTRONG AND GETTY SHOW 910 KNEW SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW: Civil servants no more DOUG MAINTYRE KABC Los Angeles * WABC New York *WRKO BostonBUSINESS & MEDIA INSTITUTE 2/11/10 Fox Business The John Stossel Show The Road To Serfdom KFI AM-640 7-10pm lewrockwell.com Yakima Hearold Podcast 1/22/2010 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Top Stories in Opinion Public Employee Unions Are Sinking California CalPensions Review Journal Las Vegas San Francisco Chronicle KPCC-AirTalk -Southren California Public Radio New Geography PensionWatch The Citizen Power Campaign Jan 15, 2010 KMJ580 WBT 1110AM/99.3FM in Charlotte, NC. Janaury 14, 2010 Pacific Research Institue CSPAN Book TV JON COUPAL President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, review in OC Register Plundering California THE GOLDWATER INSTITUE THE CATO INSTITUE Lewrockwell.com Lincoln Club OrangeJuice FLASHREPORT ON CALIFORNIA'S MOST SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL NEWSTHE BRYAN SUITS SHOW Steven Greenhut Hosts KFI Talk Show on Sunday JOHN & KEN SHOW LARRY MANTLE CHRIS REED The City Journal BILL HANDEL
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FBN-TV (Fox Business): Steven Greenhut Discusses Public Employee Pensions Being At Fault For California’s Budget Woes, Need For Reform
DAGEN MCDOWELL: facing a massive budget hole the state of california may run the risk of cutting more states public services. join me to discuss what the director of pacific research institute and author of plunder of public employee unions are controlling our lives and bankrupting the nation. great of you to be here. the problem is that politicians are in the pocket of all the union leaders and the workers. the thing that will change in california?
DIRECTOR OF PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STEVEN GREENHUT: have not seen any change. they absolutely dominate and control the capital and many of the democratic leaders who control the state are actually union organizers in past lives that will have to come at a local level because we will not see any change from legislators.
MCDOWELL: waking up to what you call the $100,000 pension with 15,000 members in a state of california, right?
GREENHUT: speak of these are obscene pension levels and people are starting to wake up to it. the problem is what do we do about it and how do we fix that? we are seeing some signs and depleting public services is very important, still a fairly liberal state.
MCDOWELL: fairly?
GREENHUT: i know. there are different pockets of conservativism and liberalism. but we have to make the argument services are being cut because the senior obligation must be paid. that is why we see a lot of social welfare programs. you have a modestly rein in the cost, taxes have to go way up. some folks on the left are actually promoting some pension reform initiatives and that maybe the most heartening thing i have seen so far.
MCDOWELL: which reforms are most heartening and how long i were talking about any reform to take place? you have written about this that the strength of the union's in the public sector, years and years in the making so what type of timetable are you thinking about?
GREENHUT: i am not the most optimistic person in the world. it will take a while to fix a problem but we have to start the people recognizing the problem and have a broad understanding of it. he is progressive, incredible credentials promoting a pension reform and america's most liberal city requiring public employees to contribute more out of their paycheck contributing very little right now now at least keep the city from being consumed by pension debt by 2015, a third of the city budget will go to retirement cost for public employees. we are seeing ridiculous salaries. they are paying police captain's $300,000 per year. they're cutting police services and firefighting services because of the huge compensation packages. something has to be done. we have to start at least by creating a new lower level of retirement benefits, and we have to require higher contribution base from existing employees, that will keep the system from going belly up it sucking the life out of the government programs, that is what they are saying. it will lead to massive tax increases and just harming the state in all sort of ways.
MCDOWELL: do you worry this will be much bigger problem that is not just a state problem but even a national one? you have a raw number of more union workers in the public sector than the private sector because of the job market so much greater.
GREENHUT: as far as the unfunded pension liabilities to the term for the debt, $3 trillion nationwide. stanford university issues $500 billion in california alone. it is a fairness issue. government employees are retiring their early fifties with six-figure cost of living. i am the health care benefits they get which in many cases are killing public services more than a pension benefits the system is out of whack. they now seem to be their masters. we are stuck paying the tax. my 401(k) does not perform, i'm stuck with retiring with less money. the government employee defied benefits plan does not work taxpayers have to pick up the slack cosmic pension fund to take more aggressive investments many of which have gone bad as we have seen. on the cutting edge of everything good or bad. this is a bad one and we have to get it fixed.
