{"id":13249,"date":"2011-03-13T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-13T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:21:00","slug":"little-hoover-makes-little-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/13\/little-hoover-makes-little-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Hoover Makes Little Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/13184\/the-big-lie-at-the-little-hoover\">OC Progressive wrote a bit about the Little Hoover Report<\/a>. &nbsp;Their suggestions on &#8220;reforming&#8221; the pensions system were so off-base and ill-informed, that Treasurer Lockyer said at the time that they were &#8220;long on rhetoric and short on thoughtful analysis.&#8221; &nbsp;Well, he&#8217;s tried to put some of that analysis into the system, and into the commission&#8217;s suggestions about the system. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the flip you&#8217;ll find the full 6-page letter about the Little Hoover reform suggestions, complete with Lockyer&#8217;s findings of flaws in the report. &nbsp;I highly suggest you read it, he held no punches.<\/p>\n<p>But the nub is this, the Little Hoover report is thinly sourced and poorly researched. &nbsp;Its conclusions come more from the Koch Brothers handbook that is running around the mainstream media than any actual data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/50566430\/LHC-Pension-Report-Comments-03-11-11\">LHC Pension Report Comments 03-11-11<\/a> <object id=\"doc_408278056944413\" name=\"doc_408278056944413\" height=\"500\" width=\"100%\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" style=\"outline:none;\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=50566430&#038;access_key=key-o0v9ox96urzc3nfycux&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=list\"><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/13184\/the-big-lie-at-the-little-hoover\">OC Progressive wrote a bit about the Little Hoover Report<\/a>. &nbsp;Their suggestions on &#8220;reforming&#8221; the pensions system were so off-base and ill-informed, that Treasurer Lockyer said at the time that they were &#8220;long on rhetoric and short on thoughtful analysis.&#8221; &nbsp;Well, he&#8217;s tried to put some of that analysis into the system, and into the commission&#8217;s suggestions about the system. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the flip you&#8217;ll find the full 6-page letter about the Little Hoover reform suggestions, complete with Lockyer&#8217;s findings of flaws in the report. &nbsp;I highly suggest you read it, he held no punches.<\/p>\n<p>But the nub is this, the Little Hoover report is thinly sourced and poorly researched. &nbsp;Its conclusions come more from the Koch Brothers handbook that is running around the mainstream media than any actual data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9713,1805,7516],"class_list":["post-13249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9713","tag-1805","tag-7516"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}