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University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy slams derivatives
Don, we must do whatever it takes to reboot the home building and buying industries in San Diego ASAP. X & Y, and even older workers, NEED GOOD JOBS TODAY and someone has to start doing something to make the right things happen or the San Diego economy will become a third world economy the way politicians in San Diego, Sacramento, Washington, and the corruption on Wall Street and at the Union-Tribune are sabotaging San Diego and America. It's time to expose the Union-Tribune editorial board and corrupt politicians like Murphy and Sanders for sabotaging the San Diego economy to satisfy their "to hell with everyone else" greed. And it's time to kick every U-T politician out of office ASAP. If X & Y won’t fight back now, they will run out of opportunities as fast as the new consumption economy is crashing and burning due to the corruption and incompetence of all our current politicians in San Diego, Sacramento and Washington.— February 6, 2008 1:55 p.m.
Government Employees Pull Far Ahead of Private Sector Employees in Pay, Fringes
AP REALITY CHECK HEADLINE JUST REPORTED: "Stocks plunge amid bad service sector report" Activity accounts for two-thirds of economy, first contraction in four years http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/ Heads Up Folks, with headlines like this one you might ask yourselves who is going to make up for the increasing losses in tax revenue that pay for our government corruption!?— February 5, 2008 1:34 p.m.
Government Employees Pull Far Ahead of Private Sector Employees in Pay, Fringes
JF, I most strongly believe that anyone who is responsible for protecting and saving the lives and property of my family and community, especially at hellaciously increasing risks to their own lives because of corruption of Mayor Sanders, Dumanis, judges et al, should be among the highest paid people in the community. The #1 fact of life in America today is that there are no better Americans than our military, police, firefighters and anyone else who protect and save our lives while risking their own. Without them we are a third world country, which is where American politicians have us headed today. VOTE out all incumbents and reboot American Democracy TODAY!— February 5, 2008 3:46 a.m.
Government Employees Pull Far Ahead of Private Sector Employees in Pay, Fringes
Bush’s tax cuts for the rich have proven once again that there is no such thing as “trickle down” when in reality it is “suck up” so today the middle class private sector is being devastated. And what you have really reported is the fact that federal, state and local government workers will be the last of the American middle class, as the old time 20th century private sector middle class becomes an extinct species.— February 4, 2008 12:23 p.m.
Time for pension reform in San Diego
Response to Don Bauder's opening statement: "Increasingly, it looks as though the nation faces a recession and stocks are in for a bear market. San Diego is almost certainly in a recession already." Don, We must do everything possible to reboot the construction industry with the highest sense of urgency. This is most certainly not the time to punish X & Y with usurious interest rates, especially when it is the hellacious profligacy of our Degenerations that preceded them and set them up for the fall. This week I read a quote in a Nature journal article that characterized the Degenerations’ 20th century as the “Savage Century” of “war, threats of war and genocide”. In fact, the four of the worst presidents in American history were equally divided between republicans and democrats, Johnson, Nixon, Clinton and Bush-Cheney, they all caused failed wars and betrayed Heroes and Patriots of the American military and the American people. We have damn near bankrupt America because of those wars and the corrupt San Diego and Washington special interests that are still betraying America today. So our Degenerations have no right to lecture X & Y on morality, ethics, integrity and honor because history shall prove that our Degenerations failed to have those cultural values. We had more opportunities than any people in history and our failures to protect humanity were worse than those of all other peoples in history. The bottom line is that our Degenerations owe X & Y for the hideous debt we have passed on to them, and at the very least we must do whatever it takes to reboot housing construction and The American Dream ASAP.— February 2, 2008 5:25 a.m.
Time for pension reform in San Diego
Response to dbauder 2:51 p.m., Jan 31: Interesting that you would defend the honor and integrity of the U-T Editorial Board Don. So if I understand you correctly, “That's one thing you can't nail the U-T on” so it is OK for the Fourth Estate to hide from responsibility and accountability and use “Ballot Recommendations” to perpetuate destructive corruption even though the role model our Founding Fathers set put their own lives at hellacious risk to create the U.S. in the first place? Did it ever occur to you that your Fourth Estate practices Editorial cowardice by hiding from responsibility and accountability for your Editorials, and that this practice has become a threat to our Democracy by the U-T and far too many other newspapers who don’t have the honor and integrity our Founding Fathers did? The fact is that X & Y generations deserve to know, need to know what civic force is most responsible for the decline of San Diego that is destroying their opportunities, public safety and quality of life today more than ever before. But it sounds like you feel that there is nothing to be exposed about U-T Editorial Board political corruption even though it is costing lives from the consequences of out of control firestorms, violence, and poverty to feed the U-T establishment greed. So I finally get the point Don, I am asking the wrong person to help your X & Y generation readers fight back when I ask you to help them.— February 1, 2008 4:19 a.m.
Time for pension reform in San Diego
Response to dbauder 10:45 a.m., Jan 31 I have always found it interesting that Union-Tribune Editors are so ashamed of their deranged rant Editorials, so many of which are attacks against honest San Diegans who threaten their corrupt establishment, that they never put their names on their editorials even though America's Founding Fathers put their names on the Declaration of Independence at hellacious risk to their lives, fortunes and honour. As a matter of fact there is no difference between the Tories who threatened American Heroes and Patriots in 1776 and the U-T Editors who threaten everyone in San Diego today. As noted before, their "Ballot Recommendations" puppetmayors Golding, Murphy and Sanders caused hellacious death and property losses, so it is no wonder that U-T Editors like Kittle and Winner continue to hide from responsibility and accountability proving for decades that their kind have absolutely no honor or integrity. It's time you exposed the U-T Editorial Board that has betrayed San Diego for far too long.— January 31, 2008 1:26 p.m.
Time for pension reform in San Diego
Don, you must attack the Union-Tribune aggressively, because if you don't attack the root cause of San Diego's corruption head on nothing will happen, the corruption will continue and San Diego will become a third world city. It's time for you to do Pulitzer Prize level investigative reporting of the Union-Tribune Era of Corruption, and the destructive consequences we are experiencing as a way of life in San Diego today. No one has more facts on U-T corruption than you Don, and you are the best journalist in San Diego history.— January 31, 2008 5:27 a.m.
2005 Audit Shows Internal Accounting Weaknesses; Despite Some Headway, Many More Improvements Must Be Made, Says Accounting Firm
Response to sdblogger 1:37 p.m., Jan 30: It is the people at the top, fire, police and union chiefs, and mayors who are corrupt. The most tragic fact of life in San Diego is that fire and police personnel are placed in Harm's Way to protect us every day and have to risk their lives even more because of the corruption of their leaders who steal city funds for their own wealth and have constantly refused to provide fire and policemen with the resources they need to protect us and themselves. The 2003 and 2007 firestorms were the worst case scenarios proving that corrupt chiefs and mayors caused excessive deaths, property damage and injury to citizens along with fire and policemen because corrupt city leaders refused to back Chief Bowman's recommendations and forced him to quit because he was the one honest leader in San Diego.— January 31, 2008 4:44 a.m.
2005 Audit Shows Internal Accounting Weaknesses; Despite Some Headway, Many More Improvements Must Be Made, Says Accounting Firm
San Diego police and firemen deserve the highest pay and benefits of any other city in America just for protecting San Diegans from the consequences of corrupt mayors whose personal larceny has put the lives of our police and firemen and all citizens at even greater risk. Golding, Murphy and Sanders are totally responsible, along with their U-T puppeteers, for the excessively hellacious loss of life and property in the 2003 and 2007 Firestorms, and for betraying and putting our fire and police in greater Harm's Way than they should have been.— January 30, 2008 12:53 p.m.