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Swerved into Oceanside bike lane with stolen Honda
Need to change the sentencing laws to reflect the current reality of criminal aliens. He shoud have been given a 25 year to life sentence but had it suspended and immediate deportation. Any future capture, arrest or known presence in the U.S. in the future would revoke the suspended sentence. The criminal gets deported and has to return to his country either clean up his act or go to one of their wonderful prisons. Our taxpayers don't have to pay for anymore housing or legal challenges. We need to just get rid of these dirtbags, not house, feed and entertain them.— August 7, 2018 12:18 p.m.
Study: county pension benefits soar
I was in the pension benefit and administration business years ago. Many small businesses had good intentions with setting up their pension plans. The defined benefit plans were usually adopted by doctors groups, lawyers, architects, engineers and other high income earners in private practice. Sometimes these entities had trouble honoring the pension benefit and would file for relief and turn the pension over to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Many of the defined benefit plans we designed were for “late savers,” individuals who only began making serious money in their 50’s or 60’s. We could design plans that legally allowed them to sock away as much as 70% of their annual income and reduce their taxes substantially. For these individuals, many of their “personal needs” were already satisfied with business deductions; leased car, travel and entertainment, and other allowances. The thing is, these individuals worked hard to build their businesses or practice and did not have an unlimited source of funds or ability to impose taxes. It has always struck me that public pensions are a recipe for disaster. They are not just a defined benefit plan, but a public defined benefit pension plan with looser regulations than private plans. The unions bargain and fight to keep adding various perks and benefits to these plans. When the money comes up short, rather than look for expenses to cut, they push for tax hikes. We are now at a stage where they not only raise taxes and coming up with new fees, but are also cutting services substantially without any reasonable debate about the mess that the public pensions are becoming. It takes a lot of problems and long term mismanagement to make a municipality file bankruptcy, but every time they have it has always been about pension obligations.— July 29, 2018 12:02 p.m.
Famosa and Nimitz plans point to density
"..."My search started with the San Diego Historical Society, but they had nothing," Bendixen begins. "They told me that the city had asked for all of their records to be returned..." So the city fathers (and mothers) have been corrupt for decades. Actively covering-up and hiding their ill deeds.— July 29, 2018 11:40 a.m.
Santee townsfolk want Dirty Chris dealt with
This is what happens when you rent cops from Bill Gore.— July 29, 2018 10:02 a.m.
Convention Center expansion absurd
I agree that the Iraq war set off a chain reaction of settlement problems in the Middle-East. However, I also believe the planet is at “peak population.” We have more people than we can create work for. Globalization and automation have also eliminated jobs in the poorest countries in every corner of the earth. The only jobs uneducated people can find are in joining rebels force such as Taliban or ISIS or trying to migrate to a country and get on their benefit train. Take a high concentration of unplanned or ill-planned births, no education, no job opportunities and you will have crime, gangs, war and terrorism. The people have nothing else to do and their governments are corrupt and America can’t police the entire solar system.— July 24, 2018 7:14 p.m.
Cate to Clairemont: Drop dead
Vote out this loser.— July 24, 2018 7:02 p.m.
Reporter accuses Ben Kalasho of assaulting him with dog
I buy stuff at your outlet and always offer 50% of what your staff asks. You still make money and I feel I get a good deal because where else in this county is a place like yours? Their all gone. Thank you for toughing it out and being one of the last electronic, mechanical 2nd hand stores.— July 24, 2018 7:01 p.m.
Santee townsfolk want Dirty Chris dealt with
The Sheriff is a County job. Gore doesn’t care about the cities that pay to rent deputies. Those grievances have to be worked out between the city manager and city council. The County has almost unlimited resources when it comes to law enforcement, but cities that rent get way less than they pay for and can do little about it except to form their own police force. That is a very expensive undertaking and the Sheriff knows it. Cities should not incorporate unless they have a solid, long-term plan, to address crime and the escalation of crime that comes with an increasingly less affluent population.— July 24, 2018 6:59 p.m.
Reporter accuses Ben Kalasho of assaulting him with dog
The only thing better than stiffing a Chaldean liquor store out of money when you die is owing the IRS millions when you die.— July 23, 2018 7:23 p.m.
Convention Center expansion absurd
When I look at pictures like this I am reminded how Millennial’s complain about not being able to afford a home. When I grew up, my phone was $8 a month. I did not die my hair rainbow colors, get my skin pierced, vape, get tattoos, download music, watch TV and movies all day, pay for the temporary use of bikes, scooters and Uber. I could not afford to go to something as expensive as Comic Con, back then Disneyland was a treat. We didn’t “lease” cars or have high-limit credit cards. When I see this generation complain about what they can’t afford, I ask myself why they spend all their money on useless crap and temporary personal attire and appearances. Oh, and dogs have replaced having children.— July 23, 2018 10:13 a.m.