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San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
I urge Don or Matt to write on the subject of the firefighter union and its role in San Diego politics. That would be a bombshell cover story. ---------------------------- X2. I actually think Don should interview JF and a few SDFD Big Wigs, and really do a fact finding mission on why SDFD feels they should be able to "retire" at age 50 with almost a full salary and Cadillac benefits. Then ask them if they think that is health for the City. I would love to see a SDFD piece in the Reader.— January 10, 2009 6:44 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
JW- JF is not closer to the mark, and my posts may not be 100% accurate but they certainly are close enough to make a valid argument. As for balance and fairness- the local blogs, like this one, Voice of San Diego, the UT-they all are dominated by special interest groups like the public employee unions, so it is sort of hard to claim I am throwing the topics out of balance. As for the comment "how long does it take with Internet to check out something before you post it"...............; Too long. I am not here to set a historical factual record, just put my 2 cents in (and get some public employees with think skin to meltdown at the same time). I do this during my work, which is done for the most part on a computer drafting docs/ word processing.... I don't get why you and a few others get so bent out of shape over the internet....... to the point of trying to have other people's posts erased.— January 10, 2009 5:37 p.m.
Copley Press Sells Posh Condos in Ballpark District to Owner David Copley. The Deal Raises Questions
I doubt the UT will fold-it still has circulation power-not what it used tohave-but still plenty to run a metro daiy. I have listened to your thoughts on Craigsist and it is a very intersting process . My past readings about Craigslist made it out as a site that makes enough money off of it's employment advertising to float the rest of the site-if it is ringing up losses,as you state, to drive metro daly papers out of business it would be under attack for anti trust violations and unfair business practices- I would imagine.— January 10, 2009 5:28 p.m.
Copley Press Sells Posh Condos in Ballpark District to Owner David Copley. The Deal Raises Questions
Copley Press may be laden with assets far beyond the UT. Many people put their homes, yachts, fancy cars, etc. into corporations. ========================== Dont you want corporate ownership as a buffer against legal actions.......... ?— January 9, 2009 7:58 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Propaganda, eh? I've got a damn good history of backing up what I say with links and facts... as opposed to your crap. ================================= LOL....... I post more links to the scams of the PD/FD, factual links, than you do JF. You cannot deny that. But at least you're not lobbying to have my posts removed.....!!— January 9, 2009 6:26 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Mr. Vegas, who has posted more than 1,000 comments to articles in the online version of the Reader, has a predilection of purveying information as fact when it suits his position. The problem comes when the information he posts as facts are WIDE of the actual true mark. In my opinion, when you choose to ignore them, the credibility of the discussion sinks. Isn't accuracy of facts important? ======================== JW, my comments are not off the mark-what Brian Wilson has done is just gone to Google and googled anything I post-and comes back with a "copy and paste" version of a website he visited which have minor discreprencies to what I posted just to try to discredit me. He did that with teh Mello Roos topic, Jared Jussim, Leigh Steinberg, fire academy, lawyers without law school and a number of my other posts-I post everything from my memory-I don't google any info prior to posting, which is not what Brian Wilson is doing. I am not here to make a historical record of the facts- I'm just putting in my 2 cents. The basic premise of my posts may not always be perfect, but they are 90% accurate and they convey facts that support my position. Now stop whining like a 5th grader. Since when do you try to get other peoples posts removed just because you don't agree with them???????? Besides, if I was not posting you would have no one to argue your welfare queen propganda to-and that would not make for a happy JW camper.— January 9, 2009 2:57 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
You've heard the old story: members of a liar's club were lined up to tell their annual whoppers. The first liar got up and said, "Last winter, it was so cold that I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets." The others all agreed that they couldn't top such a whopper. The show was called off. ============================== LOL...that was the funny! I bet JF could have topped that one though by claiming San Diego cannot fill $200K per year FF jobs.— January 9, 2009 2:48 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
We've also lowered the score needed to make it to the interview. When I was hired you had to get a 96% or better to be in Category 1. ======================= So you're saying that you have lowered the "pass score" to get an interview, an interview which is purely 100% subjective....OK. You sound like the basic gov paper pusher claiming that only 1 person out fo a 1,000 could do the gov jobs which are basically HS education/GED jobs....I still have to say baloney JF. BTW-that is my opinion, not a deliberate mistatement of fact!— January 9, 2009 2:45 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Congratulation to Brian Wilson for keeping this discussion and the record correct. JF is correct regarding the ongoing, and what appears to be deliberate misstatements of fact by Mr. Vegas. ==================== "deliberate misstatements of fact "!!!! ..... Please. If you use that standard you would have to remove all of JF's welfare queen propaganda as "deliberate misstatements of fact".— January 9, 2009 2:42 p.m.
Chula Vista and Gaylord, Now Separated, Singing the Blues
Chula Vista has declared itself in a fiscal emergency. This means it is bleeding so much it could ask the voters for a sales tax increase. ==================== That is not a sales tax-it is a pension tax. I said 2 years ago CV was going to be in the same boat as San Diego from their over spending and gigantic retroactive pension increases-and I was correct. I predict CV will file BK before San Diego does. I also predict that no CV city employee will see a reduction in wages or benefits, nor will new employees when they do start hiring again. Business as usual. And if CV residents are stupid enough to vote for a sales tax hike (a regressive tax that hurts the poor but feathers the nest of the $200K per year CV employee very nicely) then they deserve to get fleeced. National City residents learned that lesson the hard way.— January 9, 2009 2:38 p.m.