California Homemade Cupcakes Under Tax Attack!

Source Homemade cupcakes under Tax Attack
Cupcake makers, and others who prepare food in their homes, will face fees for the first time: from $170 to $425 for permits, registration and inspection.

More Taxes to come. Report that developers choosing to forgo parking requirements on downtown building projects will see a fee. A developer would have the option of paying $15,000 to $30,000 per parking space to get around the parking requirements, with the funds going toward pedestrian improvements and other projects. And boaters will face new berth fees at the marina, ranging from $7.74 to $13.03 per foot, depending on the size of the berth.

California Economic Recovery? Not This Year!

Source California cities looking for economic recovery
How bad and widespread are California cities’ fiscal problems? Rod Kiewiet, professor of political science at California Institute of Technology said “Virtually ubiquitous and massive.”

Joel Kotkin, a professor of urban development at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. said “Despite signs of economic recovery, many parts of the nation’s most populous state are feeling a hangover from the collapse of housing prices, prolonged high unemployment and resulting declines in revenue. They are confronting soaring demands for spending on public workers’ pensions and retiree health care while slashing services, rolling back pay and laying off cops, firefighters and other workers. There’s a huge amount of California that’s in extreme distress.”

Social Welfare – Spain – Students Demand Free University Education

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Spain has been in recession for most of the past four years and has a record 27.2 percent unemployment rate.

The country came dangerously close to needing a sovereign bailout last year as the country negotiated a 40 billion euro bailout for its stricken banking system while its borrowing costs soared.

Students and teachers staged a strike across Spain on Thursday to protest government austerity measures and a planned new education reforms. Students claim they are being harassed with tax increases and are having to cancel enrolments. Also, administrative staff are having their salaries reduced and are being fired.

UK – 5,000,000 Families are Out of money and Out of food!

It is shocking to find over 40% of the UK families are being forced to borrow money just to put food on the family table. In the long term this can not be good for the UK economy, the EU or the worlds long term recovery from a long running recession / depression.

In the UK – the equivalent of five million households used credit cards, overdrafts or savings to buy food during the month of April 2013.

A recent survey, 43% were headed by people between 30 and 50, while just under half had incomes under £21,000 ($34,000.00).
This research found that 55% of those using credit to do weekly shopping planned to cut back on food in the coming months, with almost a third saying they had to borrow from friends or family in order to make ends meet. This study also found that one quarter of people said 36% said they felt their finances were under pressure.

Almost one third, 31% of those surveyed cut back spending on essentials last month, and they were most likely to be women aged between 30 and 49. Our tracker shows that many households are stretched to their financial breaking point, with rising food prices one of the top worries for squeezed consumers.

It’s simply shocking that so many people need to use savings or credit to pay for essentials like food. A spokesman for Oxfam said that millions of people were under pressure from a combination of rising prices and stagnant incomes with their problems added to by cuts to services and safety nets.

Obama Trying To Skirt Around Americas Laws and Congress – Governs By Executive Orders

Obama taking executive action on guns after Senate vote
Obama vowed to keep up the fight for the background check expansion but also to do what he could through executive action.

Obama said “Even without Congress, my administration will keep doing everything it can to protect more of our communities. We’re going to address the barriers that prevent states from participating in the existing background check system.”

Obama signs 23 executive orders in January when he announced his broader push for tighter gun laws.

Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack – 3 Dead, 130 Wounded

Source Death toll at 3 in Boston Marathon bombing seen by White House as terrorism
Who dropped the ball and allowed terrorist to attack Boston Marathon?

Are the Boston police at fault? Or should we be looking harder at Obama administrations, border policies and the ability of the FBI, U.S. Marshals service, and the CIA to detect terrorist groups within the borders of the United States?

A first responder source confirms that a total of five explosive devices were found in the Boston area, including the two that exploded. Authorities spent the next several hours sweeping the area for additional devices.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said “more than 130 people were injured including up to 10 with amputated limbs”. Davis said “during a press conference that no suspect is in custody.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, this woman doesn’t have a clue. reportedly said her understanding it “that it’s a terrorist incident.” Duh, do you think?

Carnival (Cruise Line) Corp. – Won’t Pay Rescue Cost – Costing U.S. Tax Payers $780,000 Dollars

Source Carnival won’t reimburse taxpayers for crippled cruise ship rescue
Crippled Triumph cruise ship rescue cost the U.S. Tax payers more than $780,000 thousand dollars. Carnival Corp. refuses to reimburse the cost of rescuing Carnival Corp. Cruise Ship Triumph.

Coast Guard rescue of Carnival Corp. Cruise Ship Splendor in 2010 cost the Coast Guard, Navy and U.S Tax payers $3.4 million dollars.

This company, this Corp. all of it’s ships should be denied the use of U.S. ports and port facilities until it repays all cost associated with rescuing it’s ships.

Why is common sense so uncommon?