Government Waters Down For-Profit College Regulations

Don, I know this is impossible to believe, but Senator Feinstein's husband, former chairman of UC Regents Richard Blum (also best bud of former prisoner Michael Milken) and the Board of Regents have been skyrocketing the tuition and fees at UC to drive students into his diploma mills: "The University of California invests $53 million in two diploma mills controlled by UC Regents chairman Richard C. Blum" http://www.metroactive.com/features/diploma-mills… Interesting that even democratic politicians are trying to destroy public education for everyone but wealthy kids who are sponsored by corrupt special interests. However, a much sadder fact of life is that America's academics, who were supposed to lead us up the path of evolution, have failed to evolve themselves so it is no wonder that our political chimpanzees are screeching and biting each others butts in the congressional zoo.
— June 5, 2011 11:59 a.m.

Impasse on Debt Ceiling Could Cost San Diego $15 Billion

Thanks Railsplitter. What Washington and America need more than anything else are extraordinary leaders. We learned from some of the world's greatest leaders, like Cromwell, Washington, Churchill, Roosevelt and Eisenhower that having military leadership experience is extremely important when it comes to saving a nation from calamities. Military leadership experience isn't the only way, but we don't appear to have any Founding Father class leaders like Jefferson and Franklin in Washington today either. We The People must find a Constitutional way to return power to the people.
— May 10, 2011 1:55 p.m.

Impasse on Debt Ceiling Could Cost San Diego $15 Billion

P.S. Maybe we should temporarily resort to the Oliver Cromwell method of legislative attention getting, disband Congress for awhile until politicians want to do more than just stay in office. Of course Obama’s job title would have to change to President Protector until politicians are dedicated once again to serving We The People instead being indentured servants to special interests.
— May 9, 2011 11:37 a.m.

Impasse on Debt Ceiling Could Cost San Diego $15 Billion

You nailed it Don, short-term thinking is the Achilles Heel of the human race and our brains just haven't evolved far enough beyond basic jungle survival to deal seriously with the long-term future yet. Our politicians certainly prove that, but then we keep allowing them to get away with it so the political party leaders rule us in favor of whichever special interests pay them the most, and We The People haven't been special interests for far too long. Our Founding Fathers were as far as politicians ever evolved in our Democracy, and since then politicians have reverted to acting like their chimpanzee ancestors.
— May 7, 2011 11:22 a.m.

Impasse on Debt Ceiling Could Cost San Diego $15 Billion

Yes Don, we are most truly in an era when blind partisanship and selfish special interests have put closing the deficit gap beyond reach. Congress, as well as state legislatures and local governments across America have failed the test of Democracy and our newest generations shall suffer the consequences of their/our failures.
— May 6, 2011 2:23 a.m.

Impasse on Debt Ceiling Could Cost San Diego $15 Billion

Indeed Don, far too many things that will determine our quality of life depend on ending the debt ceiling impasse today. As we keep learning from you, our politicians are indentured to serve special interests as their highest priority due to the power of money, instead of serving the electorate as their highest priority which is what the Constitution was supposed to produce. We should have learned from the Great Depression that we must stabilize the economy as our highest priority as soon as possible. But far too many who go to college forget what they learned about history the moment they receive their degree, including far too many professors who fail to practice what they teach. The budget impasse is just one more warning that we must demand better political and intellectual leaders if we are going to survive beyond this century.
— May 4, 2011 4:56 a.m.

Pessimism Worst in Two Years, Says Poll

Don, the saddest fact is that most people don't know how bad things really are due to failed politicians and university scholars. The reality is that global warming threatens our youngest generations with a totally unacceptable quality of life in about 50 years, because we already have about 7 billion people today and decreasing availability of vital resources like food and clean water due to out of control climate changes we are already experiencing throughout the world. Politicians are ignoring it because they are too busy selling out their honor just to get reelected, and lying to the electorate about the fact that they are total failures to even meet the basic needs of humanity, with no leaders at all who really care enough to make the right things happen for future generations. And our university scholars have totally failed completely to teach us how to survive because they live in Ivory Towers that allow them to completely ignore reality and they refuse to be held responsible and accountable for actually implementing long-term solutions to real world problems once they get tenure. So global warming is only one step up from obesity at the bottom of the list of public concerns because our current politicians are too busy selling us out to special interests for their own wealth and power, and university scholars refuse to participate in actually saving humanity, much less communicate effectively to the public about how to avoid calamity.
— April 30, 2011 1:35 p.m.