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San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
There JW goes again, reviving a thread we killed off last week. Oh-Oh, I think I just made another "troll" post :)— February 4, 2009 10:01 a.m.
U-T Axe Was to Fall Friday. It Didn't. Newspaper May Need Employees to Slam Together Long-Delayed Pagination System
It won't even be easy to get a job sweeping floors in a shopping center. (One reason is that there are so few people shopping, the floors don't get dirty anymore.) ========================================== Someone tell that to the government.— February 3, 2009 9:08 p.m.
U-T Axe Was to Fall Friday. It Didn't. Newspaper May Need Employees to Slam Together Long-Delayed Pagination System
There is no way the UT has been sold. No one would pay for it, in fact Copley may have to pay someone else to take over the liability.— February 3, 2009 1:17 p.m.
President-elect Obama wants to toss in another trillion bucks soon
I believe the recession will last into 2010, but not become a depression (3 straight years of recession). Why? Because consumers are doing the right thing: they are not buying and are building up their savings. That will cause pain in the short run (consumer spending is more than 70 percent of the economy), but the cumulative savings will help us beat this in 2010. ================= Good post. There is no way we are beating this in 2009, out of the question. In fact with the job losses going up we are going to see MORE foreclosures, and that in turn will keep the chaos running throughout the financial system. Only when we get the employment scene stabilized will we begin a recovery. For jobs to become stabilized and for job growth, we need to drill into our elected leaders heads exactly what ronaldi has clearly stated- manufacturing/production of goods is the ONLY cure for our economic chaos.— February 2, 2009 11:28 a.m.
Change We Can’t Believe In
It doesn't matter. You'll be studiously ignored regardless of what you do. ...and then they'll vote exactly how they planned to vote all along. ============================== LOL... reminds me of a case in LA (??) last year when a strip club was before a local council and the lawyer-a sharp guy- video taped his presentation for some request and the council did exactly as you have said Fred-they talked, did paper work, paid no attention to the lawyer at all (who was I think requesting a waiver of some ordinance) and when they voted against him he appealed, all the way to the CA Supreme Court where he won. The court held that ignoring the speaker violated due process of law. Nothing changes though.— February 2, 2009 11:21 a.m.
Two Congressmen Say Citigroup Shouldn't Pay NY Mets $400 Million for Naming Rights When Sucking $350 Billion from Federal Government
Speaking of free/subsidized money (it just won't end, politicians giving away other people's/taxpayers money); S.D. marathon runs into controversy City officials estimate that throughout the 11-year history of the event, the subsidies have topped $400,000. The subsidies stem from a nonprofit charity that San Diego-based Elite Racing created that co-hosts the event. It allows the company to cash in on a city policy to charge nonprofits only about half the cost of police services used at special events. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/0…— February 1, 2009 1:58 p.m.
San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith fires John Serrano after Brown Field dust-up
Trouble is, since the Reagan years, the laws have been rewritten so that it's much harder to successfully sue corporations. Almost half are incorporated in Delaware, where the courts are notoriously fraud-tolerant. =================== So true. The banking industry WROTE the 2005 BK revisions. When you have private industry actually writing the laws to be implemented (in their favor of course) then you have killed/defeated democrocy, you just have a system based on fraud. And that unfortunately is where we are today. Big Business and public unions have raped the middle class out of their net worth-now there is nothing left. Teachers are making 6 figure compensation packages working just 37 weeks per year, cops and ff's are making even more with just a GED starting at age 21 (where does a 21 year old with a GED make 6 figures in the real world??). Arnold (Dems) is asking for tax hikes, but what he does not understand is there is no money left. A sales tax increase???? When no one buys anything you don't collect any money. I am already buying the majority of my needs off the web, out of state, to avoid a 10% sales tax. I am so ashamed of where the democratic party has gone to today. They used to stand up for the average working person, now they are killing the average working person by taxing them to death for the benfit of the public unions. Pathetic.— February 1, 2009 11:11 a.m.
Two Congressmen Say Citigroup Shouldn't Pay NY Mets $400 Million for Naming Rights When Sucking $350 Billion from Federal Government
Response to post #9: As I said in the above post, I don't believe L.A. put much in Staples. ================================ LA subsidized $70 million+ (22%) of the $321 million dollar Staples price tag. Where can I get $71 million of free taxpayers money for a private venture with private profits?— February 1, 2009 10:58 a.m.
Two Congressmen Say Citigroup Shouldn't Pay NY Mets $400 Million for Naming Rights When Sucking $350 Billion from Federal Government
Good job on the Google effort Brian, now tell us how much the City gave up/waived on property and sales tax revenue to intice Staples Center to be built, and then tell me how much they ended up PAYING for the center. The notion that ANY City is making money off of a stadium or arena is the height of ignorance.— January 31, 2009 6:15 p.m.
Gold for Books
Wow-she is a doer!— January 30, 2009 5:51 p.m.