“Rocklin rides on top of California’s budget Miseries”
2/3/2010 by Michael Patrick Murphy a registered "Decline to State" voter.
We had a great run with a nice local public schools with high schools having an incredible quantity of kids going on to college. We have a local Christian University now and Sierra College (JC) has always been popular, too.
But communism is always the greatest Ponzi scheme. Like all Ponzi schemes, they seem to go great in the beginning, a perfect free lunch. But down the road, dark clouds appear and the systems collapse. Folks like me remind their neighbors that“ I told you so.” Of course, in 2007, I also warned them about investing in “insecurities” and that the economy was going to tank. Nobody listened then either. No wonder I call folks “sheep, lemmings and ostriches.”
Then I ran for the state assembly to stop the demopublican bleeding. I refused to take campaign money from special interests, businesses and even my political party of which I was registered with at the time. (I’m now registered DTS (Decline to State, which is Independent in CA) I would only take up to $150 in campaign contributions from individuals that lived in District 4. I promised to represent the people that lived there for the first time since the state was founded. I had a great showing and appeared at all the forums where I had a great reception from the 20-40 or so voters that actually showed up to most of them. The winning Republican candidate, Ted Gaines only showed up for one in the primary and none in the actual election. That’s like applying for a job and not showing up for the interview. Ted was confident that constituents would be dumb enough to vote for the “R” anyway and he was right. Voters are lazy and non-voters, well.. ?
Now everything “governental,” including our schools, are falling apart around us. Nobody has the money. It’s already been squandered by the Board of Education and now students are running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to get required classes that have either been cancelled or suspended. What is a Republican parent to do? - Read Further
Rocklin’s Business Leaders Are On Drugs!
“They want citizens to pay for their improvements”
2/5/2010 by Michael Patrick Murphy a registered "Decline to State" voter.
I thought that education was the bigger issue of the moment since the city can’t really do much for business at this time. However, I was well entertained by The Placer Herald’s February 4th article “Rocklin Business Leaders Push for New Downtown.” It was evidence that there’s a drug problem in town. I own a business in Rocklin, but it looks like some downtown businesses are advocating for favoritism and financial help from my city taxes. After all, that’s how communism works. You take from everyone and then the statists redistribute it to whom ever they decide should get it (like friends and buddies). That’s one of the myriad of reasons why, years ago, I told the Rocklin City Council that I’m tired of living in a developer owned communist community. We’ll the developers are going broke and the City Council needs campaign money so they need to pander to the next best group that will help the council continue its self edification process of building an unnecessary downtown, a problem exhibited by the fact that Rocklin chose to call itself a city in the first place. The word city implies dreams of LA-like grandeur. We certainly don’t need more people around here and I wish they’d quit selling Rocklin to LA and the Bay areas. That’s not their job. If you think more people is good for current businesses, then you too are probably doing drugs. When more folks move in, it doesn’t mean more haircuts at your shop. It simply means more hair salons and barber shops. Worse, these folks come with the dream of opening a small business with the cash coming out of the sale of their LA home. Hence, you actually have too many hair salons and barber shops and too many bankruptcies and empty strip malls. The people that actually do benefit are those with a vested interest, like our city council, in highway infrastructure expansion. Of course, once the Fed prints money to help us with that, the highway builders make out like bandits. Once the roads improve, then more folks move out to Rocklin because the commute to work isn’t as bad as it was. That means more folks in Rocklin and higher home prices and coincidentally, higher property tax revenue for the city and higher taxes on you if you slide around from a small home to a larger one. What the city and these businesses are promoting is a lose, lose, lose situation for the residents, the city and in the end for themselves. Drugs anyone?
William Jessup gets Bailout from Rocklin?
“Why not let William Jessup pay for its own improvements?”
2/5/2010 by Michael Patrick Murphy a registered "Decline to State" voter.
Constant articles like “William Jessup Named Test Site for Solar Tracking System” represents great marketing from one of our local neo-con cabal members. They really work tightly with The Placer Herald which pushes something about the University almost every week. This is the same university that holds and biases even conservative political debates like the one for Congress where they only let McClintock and Ose speak when there were other Republican candidates. That was just plain wrong and tells everything about how the so-called "Christian" university operates as a part of the neo-con cabal that is finally somewhat out of favor these days. Solar Power? Conservative Environmentalism? Again, in comes City of Rocklin (Cabal member #2 after Placer County) to their constant aid. What the neo-cons get in return is their own university to train future neo-con politicians, etc. This University, contrary to Joe Womack's comment is not about encouraging new thoughts and bold innovative ideas. It's probably more about saving a buck with the assistance of my tax dollars via the Rocklin Community Development Department.
Dark Days Ahead!
1/3/2010 by Michael Patrick Murphy a registered "Decline to State" voter.
I ran into one of our councilmen at a local furniture and appliance store the other day. I happened to mention that I warned the City Council in 2005 about the upcoming economic problems that would be associated with spending on fun and pretty while the nation was at war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, etc. President Lyndon B. Johnson made that mistake with his “great society” programs while we were getting deeper into Vietnam. In other words, Johnson was promoting communism while we were fighting communism. The government printed so much money to pay for it all that inflation went through the roof so much that the French wanted the US to honor its promise to give them gold at $35 an ounce. Nixon reneged and got America off the gold standard. Nixon was an all time great communist, signing into law, the EPA, FDA and OSHA. No wonder he became such good buddies with China, who would help us hide the actual effects of the dollar inflation by offering goods at more than half the price. This enabled the US government to dig itself into a deeper hole while empowering and enriching China. Of course none of this made sense for America, but the Chinese bought and paid for our politicians to continue working for the Chinese, but that’s another article for another website. The funny part of the few words the councilman and I exchanged was that this he felt that it was he that warned the council about the housing debacle. I was polite at the time, but I thought, “How did he do that when he was among those receiving developer campaign money??? Yes, he certainly didn’t give it back. He also was one of those fighting for the over-development of Rocklin via his arguments on behalf of developing Clover Valley, etc. No Mister councilman and sometimes mayor, you certainly didn’t do a Paul Revere ride to warn us that the red coats are coming.
Now, Rocklin is in financial trouble and it is possible that when the other economic shoes of credit cards, commercial property and cash itself begin to drop, Rocklin, like many of its residents, might also go bankrupt. This could have been avoided, but this councilman, like his peers, decided to spend a fortune on, and among other things, the death of Matthew Redding as though no other Rocklin resident was worth the millions spent for their funerals no matter what they had done for Rocklin or society at large. You see, government folks love to edify themselves by spending your tax dollars on their own memorials. It’s part of their “quid pro quo.” (Santucci Justice Center also comes to mind). Nothing ever seems to get dedicated to the people of Rocklin, who bled money for their government.
As I told the City Council to their faces years ago, “I’m tired of living in a developer owned communist town.” It is not even just Republican communist. Today it seems that nothing has changed. Of course I have to give most of the credit to the sleepy Rocklin voters that have enabled all of this. Unfortunately, nobody with any talent seems to want to run against the cabal, which has been supported by the likes of William Jessup University, Bayside Church, the Chamber of Commerce, The Placer Herald, and at one time, the developer community and Starstream Communications, the first now financially crippled and the latter bought out by Wave Communications. Over arching this cabal is the greater Placer County Republican cabal that gives endorsements out like candy to the Rocklin City Council incumbents who in turn endorse them back. Those endorsements came from folks like Congressman John Doolittle, who unfortunately “did a lot” to further this whole mess we’re in starting with his Iraq war. This cabal would go around endorsing each other with “good ol’ boy high fives” and back slaps and even lots of party money. Meanwhile, Rocklin residents could hear the great sucking sound of their own wealth disappearing at a rate higher than most of the nation. Perhaps, in their defense, money itself is too overrated—especially the American dollar!
Now, we finally have Rocklin City layoffs that are not as great as the private sector layoffs, and a shift of funding towards fixing the long overdue infrastructure problems. Even though the parks got too much funding last year, we may see some reduction there as it finally dawns on our ancient City Council that now is not the time for investment in fun and pretty. I guess I can help saying, “I told you so.”
Of course Rocklin’s more completely communist contingent still runs occasional candidates that advocate a new and very, very expensive creation of a downtown project along with other socialist ideas. This bodes badly for Rocklin because the conservative residents that live here still blindly vote for the other communists that run under or are endorsed by the local Republican Party. Remember, if you are a communist and really want to be a councilmen or supervisor in this red county, you best register as a Republican, and they do. These crafty buzzards are unfortunately the ones that get elected to office here.
Will the people of Rocklin wake up and support candidates that don’t take the money? Will they continue to blindly check the “R”s at election time? I’m certainly not holding my breath for change in Rocklin. I think the basically conservative residents are politically lazy and apathetic enough to let the City of Rocklin fall first. Perhaps bankruptcy won’t be a bad thing. It might keep the City from borrowing money in the future to fund all the fun and pretty things that the council will want to waste money on while the nation sinks further into its wars. Think back to the fake granite the city installed at Rocklin Road and Hwy 80. At least it can be considering a warning to those choosing to move here that Rocklin may be as fake as the Republican party is anti-communist.
Hey, but that’s just me. Perhaps you feel I’ve been too harsh. Just because I’ve been proven right about most things the last ten years doesn’t mean I’ll be right for the next ten years.
But if for some strange insane reason you appreciate what you’ve read here, be sure to check out my other writings on www.AmericanLiberty.org or Economics101.Biz. especially if your considering something foreign like a Toyota Prius.
I don’t Call, I don’t write? What kind of Friend of Rocklin am I?
7/28/09 by Michael Patrick Murphy a registered "Decline to State" voter.
Rocklin’s in deep dark trouble. The City Council spent on fun and pretty like drunken sailors over the past ten years. (I think they are still spending like drunken sailors). I also suspect that the City Council will sell the rest of us out to anyone with a sizable campaign contribution. In addition, according to the Sacramento Bee, the State of California is sinking from its own set of problems and trying to pass the burden onto the cities, like Rocklin, and the Counties, like Placer. Each man, woman and child living in Rocklin will lend the state $51 to help it make ends meet. If you have a family of four, this means you will lend the state $204 as a Rocklin and Placer County resident. Already, the state has raised sales taxes by one percent without our permission. As layoffs continue, none of these new revenues and loans will be enough. If the state files for bankruptcy, will you ever see the loan repayed? Worse, the Federal government’s printing money is devaluing the currency in everyone’s wallet. From Bank bailouts to “cash for clunkers,” there is no end to the government spending and lending to questionable borrowers. America is spread the thinnest of its entire history. I imagine this represents the most massive theft in the history of the world. We have already crossed our “Rubicon.” Governmentally speaking, its definitely going to be downhill from here for the rest of my lifetime at least.
Here’s 13 things we can do about it.
- Buy Rocklin. Buy from rocklin shops and vendors. Save on gas and time. You’ll need both to fight your own economic depression. This will increase Rocklin’s sales tax revenue and give money back to Rocklin. Especially, consider buying from stores owned by Rocklin’s residents for a win, win result.
- Buy on Craig’s List and other sites from Rocklin’s residents first.
- Encourage the City of Rocklin and Placer County to quit spending on non-essentials and social programs. No more spending on fun and pretty, like the local parks. Rocklin created far more parks than it can afford. Right now, Rocklin is doing unnecessary spending on parks while its roads are falling apart. Essentials include police, fire and roads. That’s about it. Consider firing free spending council members and county supervisors while replacing them with fiscally budget minded candidates that aren’t constantly looking for a raise.
- If you’re in trouble, consider Bankruptcy vs. Foreclosure to save the neighborhood from further declining real estate values. When folks get rid of credit card and other debt, many can then afford their homes. Ironically, many folks are not too fond of the credit card companies right now anyway.
- Hire employees that live in Rocklin first.
- Donate to Rocklin charities first. Once Rocklin is healthy, then you can take extra money and donate elsewhere.
- Make a budget and stick to it.
- Manage your time better. Quit watching so much television and go clean up your yard. This will bring up your neighborhood values and your own self esteem. Clean and neat is a good thing.
- Quit spending on fun and pretty, yourself. Take care of your health first. Next, consider taking care of long-term care so you won’t also become a burden on the “system.” No more big screen TVs and other non-essential toys.
- Make sure you have at least 6 weeks extra supply of food and water and a cache of gold and silver. Rocklin has its own suppliers for all these essentials.
- Have PG&E do a home evaluation to help save money on utilities. Consider things like solar power and dry scape front AND back yards to escape utility monopoly control over your gas, water and power. Force Placer County and the City of Rocklin to pressure these utilities to quit raising prices and rates and to stop unfair tier pricing that gouges residents with the City and County’s blessing.
- Force the County and City to set spending to “percents of revenue” verses fixed amounts that don’t work during recessions and low revenue years.
- Keep your neighborhood clean and abide by your CCR’s to protect everyone’s property value. Common breaches of good neighbor policies are:
- Broken down fences
- Basketball Backboards in the street.
- Trash cans stored in plain site of the street.
- Broken down vehicles stored in the driveway.
- Unwatered yards and runaway landscaping or combustible weed growth.
- Leaving children’s chalk marks in the street and on the sidewalks.
- Parking backwards on streets or on sidewalks.
- Rocklin’s police department can also improve. Police reports need to be done fast and done in a complete and effective manner. There is more going on in Rocklin than meets the eye. As the economy worsens, crime will increase. Complete and fast report filing is necessary to track and prosecute crimes and to stop potential crimes. Today, the crime happens and then the police show up. It takes an act of congress to file a report. Someone should be available at all times to take reports at the station. Fees for having and attending to burglar alarms has got to stop. Fingerprinting crime scenes such as theft and vandalism has to become a priority. Avoiding crime reporting does not mean the same thing as “there are no crimes in rocklin.” Look at the stats for your neighborhood. I’ll bet more has happened than you thought.
- Write me if you have improvement ideas.
Granted, Rocklin is far from the worst city in California and perhaps in some ways, it is one of the best. However, all lot could be done to improve it. It is up to its citizens to know who represents them and to watch them. It is up to its citizens to keep Rocklin safe, clean and economically stable. It starts with our own efforts to clean up our own acts and to support our town. As honest and disciplined as we are, so will go our city.
Rocklin’s Lost Jobs Chart 2009 (from SacBee.com)
Local Jobs and What they pay.
How many folks are in the County’s prison system?
Placer County Prison’s houses .03 percent of its population size or 1,053 prisoners, while Sacramento County houses .05 percent with 7,560 prisoners as of 12 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5th. Source Sacramento Bee.