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Time for pension reform in San Diego
Donna Frye said it best when she was quoted in the July 2006 National Geographic cover story “America's Coasts, Land on the Edge, "Let me tell you, dirty water, dirty politics, it all comes from the same source." San Diego has the most corrupt politics of any city in America as a result of the Union-Tribune’s era of corruption that put Golding, Murphy (a former judge) and Sanders in office to produce more corruption than Cunningham could ever dream of doing. The latest three U-T puppet-mayors should be put in the same cell as Cunningham but it will never happen with the corrupt San Diego judicial system that has a track record for giving San Diego U-T puppet-mayors “Get Out Of Jail Free” cards even when they are convicted of corruption by two juries like Hedgecock was. San Diego has been betrayed by the Union-Tribune Editorial Board, and corruption shall not begin to end until the U-T is put out of business.— January 30, 2008 12:37 p.m.
2005 Audit Shows Internal Accounting Weaknesses; Despite Some Headway, Many More Improvements Must Be Made, Says Accounting Firm
Response to dbauder 6:34 p.m., Jan 29: JohnnyVegas was right when he said "This article proves it is NOT going to be getting better" as the U-T era of corruption continues without end while X & Y generations stay so far in debt with usurious interest rates that they are forced into even more bankruptcies and defaults while jobs throughout the home building industry continue to disappear along with all the jobs being exported out of America by both political parties. One wonders how much longer X & Yers will even be able to buy the products advertised in The Reader under these conditions, including the corruption and usurious interest rates that are stealing their money and destroying their jobs! The fact is that usurious interest rates are heading us for depression already with out of control food, fuel and other rising prices together with increasing losses of jobs and benefits. God Help X & Yers.— January 30, 2008 5:06 a.m.
2005 Audit Shows Internal Accounting Weaknesses; Despite Some Headway, Many More Improvements Must Be Made, Says Accounting Firm
Response to JohnnyVegas 10:13 a.m., Jan 29: The paramount imperative to begin making things get better in San Diego politics is to vote against all U-T "Ballot Recommendations" candidates. The U-T has presided over the decline and fall of San Diego for far too many decades with imperious impunity that never takes responsibility or accepts accountability for their criminal acts against the citizens of San Diego. This is why "it is NOT going to be getting better" until the X & Y generations realize they had better take matters into their own hands to overcome the failures of all the previous generations that did nothing to stop San Diego from going to hell with the U-T leading the lemmings over the cliff. The future is now up to X & Yers who must never trust any generation that came before their generations ever again.— January 29, 2008 1:10 p.m.
2005 Audit Shows Internal Accounting Weaknesses; Despite Some Headway, Many More Improvements Must Be Made, Says Accounting Firm
The latest “2005 Audit” certifies our worst concerns about the future for San Diego as long as it remains in the corrupt, slimy hands of U-T establishment controlled puppeticians. And, at the national level the best that can be said about Bush’s State of the Union last night is that it was his last, but one thing is for certain, X & Y generations shall be paying the “bills” produced by Bush and U-T corruption for many decades to come. Times are changing faster than ever before Don. I would have voted for McCain in 2000 and never did for Bush. Sadly, McCain represents Eisenhower’s gravest concerns about the military-industrial complex’s control over America. Far too many American Heroes and Patriot have died because of the M-I manifest destiny in Korea, Viet Nam and now Iraq proving Ike was right far too many times. Now if we can just shut the door on the Clinton era along with the Bush era and the U-T era, maybe we have a chance. But as I said, times are changing faster than ever before and it’s harder than ever to forecast the future for America and San Diego politically, economically and socially the way things are today with all of our government, judicial, business, scientific, academic, religious and other institutions having failed so disastrously so far into this new century. That’s why it is so important for the X & Y generations to take the ball out of the slimy hands of corrupt and failed politics of the 20th century and run with it themselves while there are still opportunities to maintain an acceptable quality of life in America and San Diego left to take advantage of. Otherwise X & Y shall find out what happened to the Anasazi peoples the hard way if we continue to allow our failed institutions to control their destiny. San Diego is too close to desertification already to waste any more extremely valuable time and opportunities, and increasingly limited resources perpetuating corrupt and failed Washington, Sacramento and San Diego politics of the 20th century.— January 29, 2008 4:47 a.m.
U.S. Market Recovers Most of Loss; Wall Street Expects More Juice from Fed
Hopefully the best interests of the X & Y gens will be served, and that the X & Yers make the right things happen for their own future. As for "older people backing Clinton", I don't think so. Times are changing even for us geezers. The age of sleazebags in the White House oval office has to have ended while Hillary looked the other way for the sake of her 2008 presidential bid. They are the reason that Bush-Cheney were given the opportunity to mess up the oval office carpet. It is time for X & Y to win the "generational battle" for the White House and Congress, and kick the corrupt and the incompetent Degenerations politicians out of Washington forever.— January 28, 2008 2:29 a.m.
U.S. Market Recovers Most of Loss; Wall Street Expects More Juice from Fed
Response to dbauder 7:03 a.m., Jan 27: It is getting difficult to tell incompetence from corruption at times isn’t it, but American corruption has most certainly metastasized throughout the world, and incompetence most certainly enables corruption. Now that Obama has momentum to deal with the sleazebag Clintons (Bill and Hillary give new meaning to “carpetbaggers”) the X & &ers must vote the Degenerations out of office during the 2008 elections. Most importantly, X & Yers must make the right things happen during the 2008 elections or they shall most certainly be screwed, so anti-cultural values like those of Bush-Cheney and Clinton Degeneration era politics must be exorcized this year. In the meantime, to provide long term solutions to job exportation betrayals by both political parties we must create job replacement opportunities for X & Yers that will result in fast track economic rebooting. These solutions must include public works projects to repair increasing infrastructure failures caused by decades of corrupt and incompetent republican and democratic Degenerations politics. To support this we must also provide incentives for housing construction and small businesses.— January 27, 2008 11:59 a.m.
U.S. Market Recovers Most of Loss; Wall Street Expects More Juice from Fed
Interesting straw man Don, but the French story is almost irrelevant as far as the American economy is concerned, we have more than enough of our own home grown problems to deal with first. The fact remains that interest rates must continue to be reduced to restore our home buying and construction sectors for the sake of stabilizing our economy and the American Dream for X & Y. Ironically, in spite of your protests against low interest rates to stimulate the economy, it’s the overwhelming corruption of the kind that you report continuously that is our greatest problem. The real turnaround will be when we start sending corrupt politicians, judges and establishment businessmen to jail until they expunge their corruption based cultural values. In the past that could never happen because corruption is part of capitalism. However, now that Obama overwhelmed Hillary and Bill for their corruption as usual politics in SC yesterday, it is time for X & Y to make a difference for themselves by kicking all Degeneration politicians out of federal, state and local offices to reboot our Democracy for the X & Y generations.— January 27, 2008 4:46 a.m.
U.S. Market Recovers Most of Loss; Wall Street Expects More Juice from Fed
Response to post of 10:05 p.m., Jan 25, 2008: OK Don, I'll modify my root cause statement to read "greed and corruption" to be more comprehensive. But there was no such thing as "easy money" considering the price the American economy is now paying for the out of control greed and corruption that resulted in usurious interest rates that are trashing the American economy today along with our political and social systems. At the top of the list of America's greediest and most corrupt acts that are the real cause of the "crash" and "crisis" are Bush's war, spending, exporting jobs, failed government, etc. that have resulted in the current state of financial turbulence. Conventional economic wisdom as of yesterday was that Bernanke "risks sparking inflation" if he pushes rates “too low” but there are a lot of other greed and corruption factors that are much higher level causes of the crash and crisis. Our imperatives today are to kickstart economic growth and send stock prices higher. The good news so far is that corporate loan rates for the most creditworthy companies are "starting to move in the "right direction." Now we must restore the health of our housing sector by making it possible for X & Y to achieve the American Dream with lower interest rates for buying up existing surplus housing and rebooting the building industry.— January 26, 2008 4:04 a.m.
Mingei Raided on Suspicion of Smuggling Pipeline, LA Times Says
Good Grief, wouldn’t you know that my wife’s and my favorite museum, with it’s most wonderfully provocative collection of cultural arts and crafts from around the world, might be a victim worldwide corruption. San Diego’s sewer of political corruption is overflowing everything worthwhile in San Diego. I wish the FBI would find some time to investigate San Diego’s out of control corruption by U-T controlled politicians such as Sanders, their judge-politicians such as Murphy and their lawyer-politicians such as Dumanis that you report on continuously Don. Maybe you should send the FBI an complete notebook with copies of all your weekly investigative reports so they can’t continue to look the other way.— January 25, 2008 1:41 p.m.
U.S. Market Recovers Most of Loss; Wall Street Expects More Juice from Fed
Response to post of 3:44 p.m. Jan 24, 2008: “It was an excessively long period of low interest rates post 9/11 that got us into recession and inflation, not high rates.” I disagree totally. CORRUPTION is the number one root cause of post 9/11 recession and inflation, and failing economic, political and social institutions. It is a gross oversimplification to blame it on “low” interest rates, especially since economists themselves disagree on this. We must lower interest rates ASAP to levels that revitalize the extremely important housing sector of our economy, especially now that the corrupt politicians and special interests have betrayed America and exported most of the rest of the Wealth of America to communist china, etc. Don, we must give X & Y a break, a chance to achieve the American Dream, a chance at bat now that Degenerations have struck out and damn near lost everything.— January 25, 2008 12:18 p.m.