CHP officers wrote 200,000 more citations in 2009 than in 2007, an 8% jump. Speeding and failure to stop were down, technical violations such as expired registration and faulty tires jumped much higher…….

Chronic back ache? Let me tell you about that when you are moving some 500 pound slug who fell down and can’t get up. Or one that is so huge that you need to take everything out of the ambulance and slide them onto the floor with a salvage cover. Or maybe after a ceiling collapses on you. How about falling through a floor or roof? Or maybe after you put on the 100+ pounds of equipment and then put a High Rise Pack on your shoulder or over your bottle and climb 40+ floors.

I could go on. My injury has left me crippled for life. FOR LIFE. You gonna tell me that I don’t deserve the paltry amount I now have to live on while being told that the city I worked for refuses to care for or treat it? Maybe you would like to tell my kids your little theory about back problems. They would love to hear you explain to them about all the things that they have missed out on because of a paltry little sore back. Or maybe my estranged wife who had to deal with what she had to deal with on her end until it got to be too much.

You want me to go on?

Ort maybe you would like me to talk to you about the exposure issues. Maybe you would like to hear about the MRSA, the AIDS, the rare cancers that firemen come down woth because of all the exposures to chemicals and other crap we are forced to breathe and come into contact with. I have two widows that would LOVE to hear your version as to why their husbands had to die from a rare, incurable stomach cancer, or from a rare, incurable brain tumor.

Hey, I know, why don’t you talk to everyone about what the stress of being jolted out of whatever you are doing, especially on the rare chances it is sleep, by a loud alarm, making you go from 0-100 mph instantly, 10-30 times a day. Maybe you would like to talk about what that does to the person’s heart and nervous system.

I called it LODD deaths. There are far more that die as a result of things that happened on the job, but took a lot longer. Then there is the fighting that goes on just to be treated and taken care of by the departments and municipalities who like to say things like, “Pre-Existing Condition” even after you passed the rigid pre-employment physical without any “pre-existing” anything?

You ahve no idea what you are speaking of, and are coming across as someone who is nothing more than jealous, and maybe even someone who applied for one of these jobs and, for whatever reason, was turned down.

Sorry, you know I don’t really disagree with you on anything…but in this instance, you are incredibly wrong about all of it.

And it is not just that I know people, I AM one of those people. I have had to deal with my “on the job back injury” for 5 years now, and it has cost me damn near everything that ever mattered to me.

So do NOT lecture me or anyone else on this subject.

However, when you pay people certain amounts and they drive they business into bankruptcy, then I think they may be getting more than they should.

That goes for State workers and United Auto Workers union members. The market will determine it. Not some political hack in D.C. that has alternative motives (votes). No bailout please. Let them restructure their costs to be in line with their revenues.

“Special Nurse:” $350,000+
Municipal railway manager: $325,000+
“Administrative services” department head: $280,000+

Those salaries? Oh, they’re just um, er, ah, er um retention bonuses. Yeah, that’s it, retention bonuses, like the ones given out at Merrill Lynch.

With all the rich people leaving the state to avoid higher taxes, something had to be done to keep the people who got us into this mess from leaving too. Besides, with all the Hollywood weirdos, including the Governator, running around the state, don’t these people deserve some kind of extra compensation?

Next, you’ll be asking why California doesn’t fix their budget woes by replacing all these high paid bureaucrats with cheap labor from across the border. Actually, I’d never thought of that before. It might be a good idea. They would certainly have more “empathy” for the common man than some privileged white college grad with a fancy title. And isn’t that the number one qualification now days for any job in Obamaland?

“At the same time they have created a $120 billion debt and almost $100 billion deficit in five years. If the voters won’t throw them out the least we can do is cut off their benefits. They created prevailing wage and AB 32 policies meant to kill your job, then you are expected to give them a free car!”

Above quotes from Steve Frank who keeps a sharp eye on the doings of CA criminals in office.

The 1 Highway along the coast is a great trip also. Once you get through San Fran that is

On May 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am, stillontheroad

If not for the fact that I dream of traveling the entire length of Route 66, which ends in LA, someday, I see no reason to ever go to CA.

Oh, and the Lincoln Highway ends in San Fransicko. I’d like to travel the Lincoln Highway someday too.