Calpers Loses 23% of Taxpayer Guaranteed Funds in One Year, Voters say no to Imposters, and U.S. Commerce Battles for our Future: Sat. Oct 30, 2009

New York Congressional Race District 23 is a revolt of Republican registered voters against their own party. They want limited government and are demonstrating to their party officials and leaders, they mean business. Scott Wheeler, Executive Director of the National Republican Trust
drops in for a quick update on the battle that illustrates for Republican Party bosses what their voters want and what constitutes a deal breaker.

As the Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up, so does growing skepticism and concern over flaws in the climate change models and so does the frenzy of the proponents for cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate, to ram policy through without delay. Is it really a crisis? If so, what's the crisis?

Tom Borelli, formidable advocate for free enterprise, editor of FreeEnterpriser.com and Director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research, joins us to talk about the proposed cap-and-trade policy, and what is shaping up as an epic battle between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to defeat it, and the Obama Administration's relentless pursuit to ram it through.

Who are the players? Who are the companies that have jumped ship and joined with Obama's team? Who wins and who loses if the U.S. Chamber of Commerce loses?

Pension Funds for Public Employees Lost $600 Billion Last Year (fiscal year ended June 30), and taxpayers are on the hook. Calpers'losses, with funds guaranteed by the taxpayers, are 9.4% of that $600 billion dollars.

Marcia Fritz, President of Californians for Pension Reform, joins us to discuss the unbelievable, corrupt, costly abuse of public trust and the public's legal obligation to cover the losses. We'll look at how Calpers directors have played fast and loose, taken extreme and hazardous risks on investments, and incurred massive losses, down $56.2 billion in one year, 23% of the value, with funds guaranteed by taxpayers.

Worse, in a pay to play racket, former Calpers board member reaped $50 million in fees for arranging the "winning investments." Calpers is an example for what has taken place across the country. Some would call it betrayal, graft, abuse and theft by public employee fund managers but "Calpers' CIO says there's no moral hazard in fund's guarantee by taxpayers."
Ms Fritz will talk with us on how to put the brakes on this now.

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle: Dynamic Women, Deb Ferns on Women and Firepower & Marita Noon on Cap n Trade Policy Built on Sand: Sat. Oct 24, 2009

Debbie Ferns, author of Babe's with Bullets (TM) joins me to talk about the launch of a TV series based on the camps, like the one I'm going to in November, set to air on the OutdoorChannel.com, starting in January.

We'll get a taste of her second book, which she's working on, called Our Forbidden Fruit...Females and Firearms in America. According to Deb, it's not quite as "happy go lucky" as the first book.

This new book has a chapter devoted to the quote "I have seen the enemy-and it is us." It talks a lot about things like apathy, and, how pro-gun folks constantly stir up turf wars against EACH OTHER! It's something I've seen a lot of in my political walk in life, and Ms. Ferns agrees, YES, it's distressing. And that's why we have paper targets, and steel targets, to shoot at--it's far less expensive than therapy!

Marita Noon, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsible Energy, on the latest "higher than expected" unemployment numbers and how no new manufacturing jobs are expected here in the U.S. Two recent op-eds she wrote help explain why.

Happy Talk on Green Jobs: "we as a country have become so enamored with 'alternative energy' that no one looks at what it takes or where the green jobs are being created? Shouldn't we have straight talk, not happy talk? Shouldn't we have facts not 'feel good?'

Staying with wind turbines, we know that their popularity is creating jobs in Mexico. But did you know they also give China a great boost?"

Built Upon the Sand: First, the cap and trade house is built upon a lie. The lie is that climate change is a crisis, that is it caused by man, that man can fix it, and that even if no other countries participate in "capping emissions," America can still make a difference.

But what if it is not a lie? What if the crisis is as real as the global cooling crisis was perceived to be in the seventies? If that is the case, the crisis can wait a few more years. We've been making noise about climate change for 40 years. Now, in the midst of a major economic recession, is not the time to be enacting extreme measures that will finish off the American economy.

Also, Steve Macias, in defense of the First Amendment: Agree or Disagree, two Mexican American college students, both elected cabinet members of the Associated Student Government at Sacramento City College, President Steve Macias & Student Affairs Commissioner Monica Guzman, who also happen to be openly Christian, one Protestant, the other Catholic, Pro-life, and Republican, are being recalled, in a process that violates the official ASG Constitution, rules and ethical standards, in a rush to oust the two, persecute them, make examples of them and silence others who get out of line.

Their crime: According to The Express, the student run newspaper, "Mr. Macias is being recalled for refusing to censor an anti-abortion display on campus known as the Genocide Awareness Project on Sept 16 -17, 2009...It is unclear why Ms. Guzman is being recalled."

They are two of a majority of the 25 cabinet board members, who supported allowing the anti-abortion organization with the over-sized graphic colored photograph posters, to participate in the school Constitution Day. The organization's participation was approved by a majority vote of the Associated Student Government Board. Mr Macias did not vote in that decision.

The Queer-Straight Alliance and The Atheist Freethinkers Club spearhead the recall, while the school administration tacitly approves of this political lynching. Lessons to be learned by our college young adults: Either the rule of law protects everyone's rights to free speech, or not. Either free speech is a fundamental right, or it is not. Free speech for me, but not for thee? You decide.
Contact Steve Macias on Facebook here or at Sacramento City College Free Speech Coalition on Facebook.

The Monumental Battle Over Health Care in Congress & A Nationwide Grassroots Movie Premiere Event exposes Global Warming Hysteria: Sat. Oct 17, 2009

On the program, Ralph F. Weber CLU, CFP, GBA, REBC 2009, President of Route Three Inc., and Route Three Life Health Disability Inc., an authority on Health Care Insurance, he is a speaker with Consumers for Health Care Choices, and the publisher for the website, Stop Government Medicine.
Is Government Medicine the answer?
What's the truth about Canada's health care system?
Why doesn't the math work?
What part of our system is it, that's fundamentally flawed, and how can we fix it so that we have choices, and we don't kill innovation or bankrupt our health industry or our economy?

Richard Rider on Emp. Pensions & taxes, Greg Scandlen on Health Care & Eric Singer on Congress Created Mortage/Credit Crisis Redux: Sat. Oct 10, 2009

On the program, Richard Rider, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association 2009 Taxpayer Hero of the Year, talks about the new-hot-off-the-press study commissioned by the San Diego Taxpayers Association, which shows City Pension Costs Linked to Higher Taxes.

Greg Scandlen, Founder and Director of Consumers for Health Care Choices, an expert on Health Care policy, joins us to talk about Crunch Time in Congress: The Senate Finance Committee will be voting on its bill next week, then Harry Reid and the White House will cobble together a merger of the two Senate committee bills and take it to the floor. House leadership is already working on a bill to take to the floor and will probably have a vote in the next two weeks. Whatever else they do, it will certainly include:

* A mandate that you must buy health insurance and be fined or even jailed if you fail to comply.
* A major increase in the deficit to pay for all the new subsidies and bureaucracies.
* Rationing of services as determined by a federal committee.
* Increased taxes on everyone involved in health care.
* More regulation of doctors and hospitals.
CORRECTION REGARDING GERMANY'S HEALTH CARE PROGRAM: IN THE MP3, AUDIO, I SAID THAT IT HAS TAKEN GERMANY 25 YEARS TO FIGURE OUT THEY MADE A HUGE MISTAKE BY NATIONALIZING THEIR HEALTH CARE. I MEANT TO SAY 125 YEARS.

Eric Singer of "Congressional Effect Fund" talks with us about Congress's plan to reenergize the the Community Reinvestment Act--the same act that brought us the housing market bubble, and credit market meltdown. It promises to usher in the next mortgage and credit crisis in the name of "helping to stimulate" the economy. With the Government buying up mortgages how do we really know the value of the market or how it's doing?

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Russ Weymire of Families Protecting the Valley & Arnold Zeiderman MD, MPH, FACOG on Health Care

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At the CA GOP Convention, my friend Taddeus Taylor introduced me to a man he described as the most interesting man at the convention, and I agree, he was. Dr. Arnold M. Zeiderman, MD, MPH, FACOG (OB-GYN with a Masters in Public Health) was part of a panel on Health Care and he joins me to talk about that issue, from his indepth view.
On Thursday, October 1, Medical Doctors marched on Washington DC, and called it the "Million Med March." They admit that it was far fewer than a million, and point out that fewer than 1 million doctors work in the United States, and that a lot fewer will go into practice if the government and Congress take over health care. We'll talk with Dr. Zeiderman about health care and public health.
But Dr Zeiderman is also a long time activist for Israel. We'll talk about Iran, defense and nuclear weapons.
Russ Weymire, farmer and founding board member of CA Families Protecting the Valley, will join us briefly for an update on the CA Water Crisis: It's more complicated than a 2 inch fish on the Endangered Species List, and unless politicians, developers and local government agencies own up to and talk straight about the problem, they'll find themselves under the bus, instead of on it.

Andrew Coulson on how to cause great education models to proliferate like ipods and FB & Eric Singer of Congressional Effect Funds: Sat. Sept. 26, 09

On the program, Andrew Coulson was an advisor on Flunked and appeared on camera along with Ben Chavis of American Indian Public Charter School of Oakland. We’ll talk about the stories and evidence that it was based on and what they can tell us about American education.

Specifically, we will talk about excellence in k-12 schooling (for example, Ben’s success, but also other examples like KIPP), and why they don’t catch on like wildfire and spread throughout the whole country the way that Starbucks, iPods, Facebook, etc. all did. In every other field, excellence routinely scales up massively, but not in education. Why?
Mr. Coulson will touch on the story of Jaime Escalante, too, the teacher whose success teaching poor Hispanic kids in East L.A. was dramatized in the movie Stand and Deliver. It shows what happens to excellence in the public school system. In the end, it usually gets crushed.

So if we want every kid to have access to the best teaching methods and materials, how do we structure schooling like other fields where excellence is more contagious than H1N1?

Eric Singer, founder and Principal of Congressional Effect Fund, joins us once again with more of his brilliant analysis between what Congress does and the impact it has on our economy, prosperity and opportunity. He’ll talk about his op-ed, Filibuster-Proof Government Bad For America.

If you read, write, & count you can move mountains. Knowledge is power. Derrell Bradford & Jack Dean want you to have it & be free: Sat. Sept.19, 09

Part 1 and Part 2 of the show on mp3 for streaming or download
On the program, Derrell Bradford deputy director of Excellent Education for Everyone E3, a school-choice advocacy group co-founded by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, joins us to talk About our Children, a live televised star studded panel event happening Sunday at Howard University.
Paul Rodriguez, comedian and civic and education activist, also on the panel on Sunday, may drop in with Derrell and I, if his flight is on time. He's been fighting to save the farmers, and farm workers and their families in California's Central Valley too so he's travelling from CA to DC.
The live event on Sunday Focuses on the Faces of Poverty and Education as a Pathway to Achieving the American Dream. It features Bill Cosby. The other star panelists are Dr. Ben Chavis, former principal of American Indian Public Charter School and author of the new released book "Crazy Like a Fox: One Principal's Triumph in the Inner City," Dr. Daniel Amen, founder of the Amen Clinics; Ben Austin, executive director of the Los Angeles based Parents Union; " Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and Randi Weingarten, former president of the United Federation of Teachers. I said it last week, and I'll keep saying it: When and if conservatives pointedly, intentionally, and substantively take on the Cartel of public education, whoa! The political playing field will be transformed! The jig will be up! Let's do it. Start by tuning into my show, and watch the live event on Sunday. You can participate live on both programs.

Jack Dean, the big taxpayer's hero, editor and publisher of Pension Tsunami, and founding board member of California Pension Reform, has a lot to talk about with us. We'll get an update on the ever expanding list of Calpers and CALstrs $100,000 Pension Clubs--Calpers' own actuary says the system is not sustainable.
We'll talk with Jack about Southern CA's Metropolitan Water District's (MWD) failed attempt (this time) to give its employees a 25% pension boost. Angry voters stopped them this past Wednesday, for now,but it's not over; they're coming back around in October, so be ready.