Why California is Bankrupt (cont'd): $200,000 Lifeguards with Million Dollar Pensions!

As it is, there are as many reasons for why California has a budget deficit larger than the entire budgets of most states in the nation as there are non-existent dollars in said deficit, which is in the tens of billions of dollars. But many of them center around one aspect of life in the golden State - unions are fleecing the taxpayers to live like millionaires. It's true. Public servants - an oxymoron in CA - have become lifestyle management firms that perform services on the side, poorly, and at a huge loss. This is just one example of that:

The unions are literally swimming in taxpayer dollars, with the approval of the liberal ruling class who get their campaign coffers fill with the very money they are laundering through said union monopolies.

Anyone in the private sector doing any such thing would be in a federal pound you in the a$$ penitentiary.