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How California Prisons Got So Bad
By: Steven Greenhut
5.31.2011
Government is not supposed to manage the economy and social engineer our lives, but it is supposed to arrest and lock up criminals. But the U.S. Supreme Court had to step in last week because the state government's handling of the prison system has become abusive and unconstitutional.
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Schwarzenegger a power-loving phony
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
5.25.2011
Gov. Schwarzenegger betrayed the state, and yet we're supposed to be surprised that he also betrayed his family? It wasn't that long ago that Schwarzenegger was touted by California Republicans as the last hope to save the party and the state, but the Governator's principles always were as malleable as his ethics.
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Prisoner of the Union
City Journal
By: Steven Greenhut
5.24.2011
When California governor Jerry Brown announced details last month of a two-year contract that he’d negotiated with California’s prison guards’ union, you could practically hear the sighs of disappointment from stalwarts who had hoped that the 73-year-old maverick might take on a few vested interests as he tried to close the state’s $15 billion budget gap.
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Candid Romney Would Own Up To Mass. Fiasco
Investor's Business Daily
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.24.2011
Massachusetts health reform is in the news — driven by reports of long waits for care and its architect's presidential ambitions. Former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney delivered a widely panned speech the week before last on health care.
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Teachers Unions using our kids as props to take home more pay
San Francisco Examiner
By: Katy Grimes
5.24.2011
Last week teacher union activists descended upon the Capitol, but education reform was not on their agenda. The priority was lobbying legislators to vote in favor of Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax extensions‚ and avoid a vote of the people on the tax increases. The activists also targeted two education reform bills.
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Little Pain, Real Gains
City Journal
By: Steven Greenhut
5.13.2011
The Republican budget plan proposed on Thursday in the California Assembly wouldn’t fix the fundamental problems with the state’s budget or make long-term reforms to right this long-mismanaged state.
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Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
Press Release
5.12.2011
Docs 4 Patient Care, the Benjamin Rush Society, and the Pacific Research Institute issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit supporting the district court’s decision that ObamaCare is unconstitutional.
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Are Hospitals Being Stiffed by the Uninsured?
FOX Business: The Willis Report
5.10.2011
“The whole issue is that people need to take control of their lives, people need to not think of health care as an entitlement, they need to get health insurance, and you know it is possible. When you break down that 50.7 million Americans who don't have insurance at one particular point in time, 17 million of them are people earning over $50,000 a year, two-thirds are young people, they don't want to spend $500 a month on insurance.”
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New Health Care Law Cripples State Budgets
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.9.2011
America's fiscal crisis is about to explode. In 2010 state budget deficits reached an all-time high of $191 billion. Former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch has predicted that state deficits could reach a staggering $500 billion this year when the stimulus funds propping up state budgets run out in July.
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Prop. 13 still the Left's bogeyman
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
5.9.2011
The British publication's cover story on California, "Where it all went wrong," pins the state's woes on direct democracy and on one initiative in particular – 1978's tax-limiting Proposition 13. While the lengthy feature included incisive details and offered a handful of interesting ideas, it was one of the most intellectually dishonest investigations I've read in a while.
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Lesson from Wisconsin
Washington Times
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
5.6.2011
As Wisconsin government-employee unions protested against Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-balancing proposals, teachers union members walked out of class, depriving thousands of children of their right to an education.The teachers’ callous, selfish actions demonstrate the need to give parents the ability to bypass the unionized government-monopoly school system.
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Politicians can't control health care costs
Orange County Register, San Francisco Examiner
By: John R. Graham
5.6.2011
California legislators are considering Assembly Bill 52, which would give the executive branch in Sacramento the power to decide whether health plans should be allowed to increase their premiums at rates that keep pace with medical costs. Health plans may be a politically attractive target, but giving politicians the power to approve premiums causes other problems – and doesn't even hold down rate increases.
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A Plan That Leads Health Care To Nowhere
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.3.2011
President Obama recently offered up his plan for cutting the federal budget deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years. A big chunk of those proposed savings--$480 billion, or more than 10%--is supposed to come from federal health care programs.
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The tea party should hold fast on debt ceiling
MarketWatch
5.3.2011
Two weeks ago, Standard and Poor’s kept the U.S. government’s AAA debt rating, but downgraded its future outlook from “stable” to “negative.” The announcement roiled stock markets and underscored the need for tea party activists to keep legislators’ feet to the fire on the debt ceiling. Paul Ryan’s allegedly radical proposal, unfortunately, doesn’t address the looming fiscal crisis.
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Best/Worst States for Business
ChiefExecutive.net
5.3.2011
More than 500 CEOs considered a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment, in our annual ranking of the best states for business.
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The Mess of Massachusetts' Health-Care
FOX Business: The Willis Report
5.2.2011
FOX Business: Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes on how Massachusetts' health care, pushed by Mitt Romey, shows what the federal government’s health-care reform will do to the country.
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Public servants – more money, less accountability
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
5.1.2011
Union arguments in favor of their members' lush pensions are falling by the wayside as the public examines the facts. For instance, union officials argue that the average public-sector pension benefit in California is "only" $30,000 a year, while neglecting to mention that the number, according to the state's watchdog Little Hoover Commission, rises to $66,000 a year for recent retirees – a reflection of the widespread pension boosting of the past decade.
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