Gobbldigook

On the job, the state usually pays 80 percent of the average worker health care premium. The state pays 100 percent of the average retiree premium and 90 percent for dependents, if the worker had 20 years or more of service.Since most state workers can retire at age 50, the current state retiree premium payment of $21,456 a year for a family of three or more is a particularly good deal for those who choose early retirement.Now as Gov. Brown leaves office, ending what he called the “anomaly” of retirees paying less for health care than current workers is part of one of his accomplishments — state worker retiree health care reform that had been delayed for decades.Retiree health care, part of Brown’s 12-point pension reform, was not included in his pension reform bill that, for new hires, extends retirement ages and makes employees pay more for their pensions.As a legislative analysis of the pension bill said, unions had “shown a willingness” to bargain the issue. Like the pension reforms, three of the retiree health care reforms bargained by the Brown administration only apply to new hires, reducing the amount of the savings.The retiree health care premium payment is the same as the active worker payment. The state no longer pays for Medicare Part B. And five more years of service are needed to receive state payment of retiree health care premiums, beginning with 50 percent after 15 years and increasing 5 percent a year to 100 percent after 25 years.

I have boldfaced the rule set, complicated as frig and voter citizen's are not spending time on this fine print. 

My message to voters, the issue is not left/right or union/nonunion; it is coherent vs incoherent.  This kind of rule set is a complicated fraud, the state should never get this complicated is leads to massive waste.

One can still be a leftist, a redistributor, and all that; but you have to monitor the complexity limit, know when the citizen common sense should take over from the government rule set.  If you do not understand that, we will be chasing you for war crimes later. In California, the limited intelligence of our legislators is leading us directly toward Calizuela, and Jerry even mentioned it in his farewell.  We are in danger from incoherence, not leftism.