Incomplete list of economic woes in the U.S. state of Idaho, June 2016.

Germany based Volkswagen agrees to pay Idaho state government $2.6-million USD for the supposed diesel software scam, plus VW owners get $5,100 in cash for each eligible diesel vehicle.   Diesel owners in Idaho love diesels! My own research suggests this whole thing is a False Flag instigated by the Rockefellers who openly stated at the end of 2014 they were going to shift the ‘industry’ towards electric vehicles! 

National Insurance Crime Bureau reports a 16% increase in reported vehicle thefts from 2014 to 2015.  The city of Lewiston was number 1, Pocatello number 2, Coeur d’Alene 3, Boise 4 and Idaho Falls number 5.  Interestingly KIFI reported that Pocatello administrators denied the insurance industry report.

ObamaCare insurance providers are demanding premium increases from anywhere between 27% and an insane 122% for Blue Cross’s ObamaCare Gold Plan!  And its been revealed that Your Health Idaho have been delaying the issuance of special tax forms needed for some Idahoans to avoid paying the ObamaCare tax fine. The forms are supposed to be issued by 31 January, but Your Health Idaho administrators recently admitted they weren’t issued until April!

Idaho Falls police arrested a man for stealing his employer’s bank deposit.  The manager of Pretzelmaker, in Grand Teton Mall, discovered that just over $1-thousand USD went missing on Friday.

An Idaho Falls woman pled guilty in federal court to tax fraud. She and her employes at Carillo’s Tax Service intentionally created 2-thousand 5-hundred false tax returns for her clients, such as claiming child tax credits when the clients didn’t have children.

The Idaho Public Charter School Commission warning Syringa Mountain School of financial peril because state funding can’t come close to covering the charter school’s outrageous operating costs: “SMS’s financial position is extremely perilous. While fundraising efforts have met current cash flow needs, SMS has struggled with lack of funds periodically throughout its years in operation.”

In Bannock County, corrupt School District 25 jacked up fees for lunches, despite getting an increase in their budget! In response, a federal lawsuit has been filed on the grounds that charging additional out-of-pocket school fees violates the state constitution. I reported last November that an Ada County court ruled school fees were unconstitutional, and some school administrators actually admitted it was!

The Fire Chief of Chubbuck resigned in connection to the planned merger of the city of Chubbuck’s fire department with the city of Pocatello (both cities are dealing with cash problems despite continually telling the taxpayers the economy is good): “Whether the consolidation goes forward or not it’s not going to be affected by whom the chief is at the time.”-Joshua Ellis, Chubbuck city councilman

The city of Pocatello admitted a recent closed door meeting violated the state’s Open Meeting Law.   The closed meeting involved labor negotiations with the firefighter’s union.  The city voided the results of the meeting, saying they “cured” their violation of state law.  I’ve lived in the area for twenty years and both Pocatello and chubbuck are notorious for hold ing closed meetings, regardless of who the ‘christian elected’ officials are.

The governments of Kuwait and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia threatened to suspend scholarships for up to 1-thousand 2-hundred of their citizens who’re attending Idaho State University in Pocatello, over reports of attacks by Idahoans against those students.  Students from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have become Idaho State University’s bread and butter.

Speaking of Chubbuck and Pocatello, the county of Bannock made an appeal to property owners to pay their property taxes, warning of fines and interest charges. It sounded like the county is having problems with property tax collections, which would not be happening if the economy was good. I gotta message for Bannock County: “You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.”

Bannock County also revealed that their prison operations are over budget, and facing record overcrowding! The majority of people being arrested are from out-o-state. The county sheriff said that since last year 90% of the prison budget is now due to overcrowding and is the result of housing prisoners in other counties. He demands that cash strapped Bannock County taxpayers build a bigger county jail (despite voters recently rejecting the proposal) warning that the increased prion population is going to be a “long-term” issue!

Bannock County canceled long term/monthly rental of horse stalls at the county fairgrounds. It’s connected to the recent shutdown after the contractor caring for horses was arrested for mistreatment of animals. Overnight rentals are still available.  And next door at the new privately created Wellness Complex, Bannock County revealed that current maintenance costs are paid for by a privately funded trust and current concert bookings, however, that money will run out by the start of 2018 meaning taxpayers could be raped, although most taxpayers ignorantly think they’re already paying for the Wellness Complex: “Funding the park most people think that tax dollars are being used. These monies have come directly from the Portneuf Health Trust. No tax dollars have been used so far.”-Robert Poleki, Bannock County

15 years after shutting down their Power County phosphorus operations FMC declared their EPA superfund site is now ready to be the new home to Rupert based Valley Agronomics‘ new fertilizer plant (Valley Agronomics is owned by Minnesota based Land O’Lakes). The arrogant ‘christian’ governor of Idaho, Butch Otter, proudly boasted that this was a sign the area’s economy has “risen from the ashes” and then flat lied by saying “…when somebody says we’re gonna return, we’re gonna come back! You can trust us that we will keep our promise in coming back. I want you to remember this day Valley Agronomics and FMC because they told us that! They told us that we can trust them…” This is a lie because it’s not FMC “coming back”, and Valley Agronomics never operated out of the site before! The so called Phoenix Site (as declared by Otter) will employ a measly 50 people once it’s up and running in 2017 (incompetent local TV stations have been reporting 70 jobs created, but those are the temporary construction jobs). I don’t think that qualifies as a local economy that’s “risen from the ashes”.

Otter also quietly revealed to local news media that the once touted Solar Farm project at the Pocatello Airport is dead.

The federal government shutdown popular Skinny Dipper Hot Springs, citing possible health concerns after multiple illegal pipes and pools were discovered.  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) thinks it will take five years to remove the illegal construction.  BLM also says that since 2004 there have been skyrocketing cases of intoxication and even sex crimes at the hot springs.

Bonneville County screwed over its smaller communities when it convinced voters to consolidate ambulance service to the city of Idaho Falls, under the guise of saving money for taxpayers.  As a result of the consolidation the ‘christian’ led state government is now suing the town of Swan Valley for repayment of grant money that was used to buy an ambulance back in 2012.  Because the town was forced to consolidate service to Idaho Falls the ambulance is not being used, which apparently violates the conditions of the grant.

It’s been revealed that a major buyer of Idaho potatoes, Japan, has banned the ‘fresh’ version of the iconic food product since 2006. That’s the year that the pale cyst nematode showed up in east Idaho farms. Japan has imported fresh potatoes from other U.S. states since then.

A sure sign of a failed state; Jefferson County jacked up taxes for farmers.  Under a new property value assessment plan, co-created by the ‘christian’ dominated state government, property values for farmland in Jefferson County have skyrocketed by as much as 72%!  Farmers say the property assessments were done by an ‘outside’ group and will appeal the assessments.  The county is giving them until 11 July to make an appeal, in person, not on paper.

Mining companies from Canada and China have signed a $700-million USD deal to open a molybdenum mine near Boise. Administrators with American CuMo Mining and MCC8 Group say Idaho has the largest moly-b deposits in the world! $100-million of the $700-million deal will be used to study the viability of the mining ops before any mining takes place.

In Boise, an Oregon woman pled guilty to stealing $850-thousand USD from corrupt ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health System. The woman ran the scam through her Boise employer Pinnacle Pension Services. Saint Luke’s itself has been caught ‘stealing’ local tax dollars.

The economy is so bad that there is an official teacher “famine” in eastern Idaho schools. According to numbers presented by east Idaho school districts, between 2009 and 2014 at least 9-thousand 569 teachers fled eastern Idaho schools! Statewide only 11 of Idaho’s 70 school districts were able to fill vacant positions, at the same time there is and exodus of education students as well. Between 2009 and 2013 there was a 35% drop in college students entering a teacher training program (what happened to Idaho’s free tuition if somebody became a teacher in Idaho?). Idaho Education News revealed that the state Department of Education does not keep track of such data, it’s coming from local districts and the universities themselves, implying that exalted state ‘lawmakers’ are ignoring the situation. Local school district administrators admit low pay for teachers is the main reason for the exodus, but say ObamaCare has jacked up the cost of employee benefits so high that they can’t afford to pay teachers mo-money: “I would not say it’s a teacher shortage we are experiencing, it’s a teacher famine!”-Randy Lords, Madison School District

Due to a lawsuit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing its approval for the way Idaho measures toxic arsenic levels in water (the EPA’s decision to let Idaho ‘christian lawmakers’ ignore arsenic limit regulations seems to coincide with state ‘officials’ quietly allowing natural gas fracking operations). It sounds similar to what happened in Flint, Michigan: “EPA violated the Clean Water Act when it allowed arsenic levels in Idaho waters that are up to 1,000 times greater than the agency has determined are acceptable for this toxic chemical. EPA placed political expediency over human health protection.“– Nina Bell, Northwest Environmental Advocates

The state Department of Health and Welfare confirmed seven ‘refugees’ infected with tuberculosis, but at the same time says they are not “infectious”.   The Idaho Statesman reports that in the past five years 4-thousand 5-hundred ‘refugees’ have been quietly settled in The Gem State, at taxpayer expense. 

For several years Idaho has been pumping natural gas no thanks to fracking (which was secretly approved by your ‘christian elected’ officials), but now Alta Mesa Idaho reports they’ve struck oil in the Willow Creek area: “Only one completion of 10 thus far has produced primarily oil. This area is in the early stages of exploration….”-John foster, Alta Mesa Idaho

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.

I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!

Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”