While I receive my retirement healthcare from CALPERS, my
pension lies elsewhere. But CALPERS continually sends me pension booklets as
part of “the CALPERS family” that are irrelevant and trashed. My CALPERS healthcare also sends me booklets
that contain such “startling” new information as regular exercise and eating
fresh fruits and vegetables contribute to health. This waste is created by
people inventing a need for themselves with likely justification by consultants
with rows of PhD’s.
Some years ago a co-worker of mine, a retired corporate
executive and a master at corporate/government paperwork, was closing out the
affairs of his recently deceased mother.
He sent the appropriate paperwork to Social Security and quickly
received a case closed reply. But a California bureaucrat suspected fraud with
his filling to end a small state pension. My friend was raked over the coals
for months until resolution. But our Sacramento parasite was probably rewarded
for suspecting and pursuing possible hanky panky.
Many years ago my partners and I decided to liquidate a
corporation we had. The proper documents were sent in sufficiently before the
annual deadline. But we never heard back until the following year. The
Department of Corporations wrote back that we were late and therefore owned
them another fee to exist in the current year to process the dissolution filing.
Our lawyer fired back by saying you withheld the filing intentionally and that
if you did this to us you are doing this to others. Would you like a class
action suit to prove our contention? We then received an apology saying they
had made a clerical error and we didn’t owe the fee. But departments and
agencies that produce revenue maintain a certain shine.
As deadly as the growth of California’s government has
been, it now appears to have accelerated from an arithmetic rate to a geometric
rate. Newsom equals oblivion.
Copyright 2019, Mark L. Bennett
