California: More Inflation

The state of California has decided that they want to lure more hourly workers to the state by mandating overtime for all hours beyond 32 in a week.

“There has been no correlation between working more hours and better productivity,” Garcia said

Well if that’s true, why stop at 32? Why not 16 hours? Or 8? Supporters claim that the same amount of work done in 5 days can be done in 4 days. The idea is that employees work 80% of the time for 100% of the pay and maintain 100% productivity. If that is the case, why can’t they work 80% of the time, maintain 100% productivity for 90% pay?

We all know that productivity will decrease by 20%, but labor costs will increase. This additional cost will be passed on to consumers and will result in more inflation, both within California and in all products exported or transported from California.

Let’s see what the proposed law says:

510.(a) (1) Eight hours of labor constitutes a day’s work. Any work in excess of eight hours in one workday and any work in excess of 40 32 hours in any one workweek and the first eight hours worked on the seventh day of work in any one workweek shall be compensated at the rate of no less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for an employee. 

The compensation rate of pay at 32 hours shall reflect the previous compensation rate of pay at 40 hours, and an employer shall not reduce an employee’s regular rate of pay as a result of this reduced hourly workweek requirement.

The propsed act goes on to exempt union employees and government employees. If large employers are smart, they will separate workers into smaller divisions with separate FEINs, or will simply leave the state.

Lost Generation

56 percent of Gen Z and 55 percent of millennials said they would quit a job if it interfered with their personal lives. 49 percent of Gen Z and 46 percent of millennials said they wouldn’t work for a company that didn’t make diversity a priority.

How are they paying their bills? My working theory is that they are relying on the government and/or their parents. I see many who still live with their parents into their 30’s and 40’s, some whose parents still pay them an allowance of sorts, and still others who collect government handouts.

One coworker of mine is still working at age 76, because his ne’er do well son can’t hold a job for more than a few weeks. When I asked him why he still does it, he replied: “What am I supposed to do, let him be homeless?”

Show Trials

The attorney for some of the J6 defendants filed a brief that opposed the forced vaccination of his clients while incarcerated indefinitely awaiting trial. That brief likened forced COVID vaccination to the Holocaust. This pissed off the judge, who had him disbarred. Now all of his clients are without representation.

Of course the powers that be are denying that the disbarment has anything to do with his J6 case, but no one is releasing the facts of either case as supporting evidence.

I want you to recall that the communists that are taking over our nation are still following the CIA insurgent manual. Just as I said a year ago, the show trials must be held to imprison anyone who is a possible counter revolutionary.

Called It

Remember the Port Orange teacher that disrupted standardized testing? He actually posted a video of himself as he did it. He rambled on for nearly an hour.

Watch the video. It’s a long, rambling video that makes it seem like the teacher is on drugs.

He tells the kids (4:54 mark of the video) that black students are the victims of racism. He brags about smoking weed (at 14:47) even claiming that he sometimes comes to work stoned. At 15:22 one of the kids tells the teacher that he smells like weed sometimes. Another student admits that his mother smokes weed.

At 27 minutes, a Principal arrives and demands that he turn the music off. The teacher wants to have a conversation with him, but the principal leaves after being told the conversation is being live streamed.

He is trying to be a friend to the kids. Dropping F bombs. Admitting to drug use.

Other videos on his Instagram page include his interview with police and a video lasting over 2 hours that appears to be of of himself getting high while listening to music. The video appears to have been shot at 5 am, just before he went to work. In it, he claims to be drinking Patron and smoking weed.

Unintended Consequences

The governor of Colorado recently signed a law that legalizes abortions at any point until birth. Theoretically, a woman in labor could have the baby aborted and this would be legal. I don’t see how that is anything but murder. However, that isn’t the point of this post. Here is a link to the law itself. (pdf warning)

The point here is that the law reads (in part):

A FERTILIZED EGG, EMBRYO, OR FETUS DOES NOT HAVE
INDEPENDENT OR DERIVATIVE RIGHTS UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE.

So I wonder how long it will be before a case comes before the court where someone has injured a pregnant woman and caused the loss of her baby. Like the case of Heather Surovik.

Heather Surovik was eight months pregnant when a drunk driver struck her car on a summer afternoon on the outskirts of Denver. A 27-year-old preschool teacher at the time, she was expecting to give birth within days, in July 2012, to a boy she had named Brady. “I survived,” she said. “Brady did not.” To Surovik, that was a homicide. But not according to Colorado law. “I was told that because my son did not take a breath, he was not considered a person,” she said. “He was considered part of my injuries—a loss of a pregnancy.”

This resulted in Amendment 67 being placed on Colorado’s ballot in 2014. The measure was defeated. So in Colorado, anyone can kill an unborn baby. A person can stab, shoot, or run over a pregnant woman, causing the loss of her unborn child, and that loss will be considered an injury.

Even CNN thought that this unborn fetus was a child. CNN host Erin Burnett exclaimed: “That baby was 8 pounds, 2 ounces. He was going to be born in a couple of days. How could you not define that as a person? That is a viable life.” Showing that the left has no concept of cognitive dissonance, this same CNN anchor is in favor of abortion.

I guess this is what the women of Colorado want, although looking at the new law, they are not even women any longer, but are now “pregnant individuals.” The words female and woman do not appear in the new law, not even once.