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U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
P.S. to post #29: Long term solution: Get all of our institutions to work together in a new United America type organization of government, academic, science, capitalist, religious, and social leaders to save our democracy, our economy and our environment. But the UA must have better quality leaders than the ones we have today, leaders who can set aside their differences and cooperate with the right sense of urgency to prevent reaching any unacceptable tipping points.— December 5, 2007 1:53 p.m.
U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
Response to post #28: I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment on the needs for those bonds Don and many other reasons for long term investments for the sake of your young readers. But it’s just that nothing seems to improve anymore now that we have increasing crises in failed K-12 education, failed universities, failed scientists, failed governments, failed healthcare, failed public safety, and many other failed institutions. The bottom line fact is that it’s too easy for you to write about our problems and almost impossible to implement long term solutions.— December 5, 2007 1:06 p.m.
U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
Response to post #20: “That's unlike school or bridge bonds, for example, that are making the future economy potentially stronger.” Yeah right! I don’t think so Don because those examples aren’t likely either according to “US. Teens perform poorly on major math-science exam” WashPost article in this mornings U-T, and bridges are an increasing maintenance problem so it’s best to drive across them as quickly as possible. It’s getting harder to find “good news” examples anymore.— December 5, 2007 12:01 p.m.
City's Outside Accounting Firm Told to Restate 2005 Financial Results
Hmmm, isn't there something illegal about the fox (City Employees' Retirement System lawyer) guarding the henhouse (taxpayer money) relationship? Seems like the Sanders fox just keeps hiring other foxes to eviscerate the taxpayers.— December 4, 2007 12:33 p.m.
U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
OK, post #18 is a great idea for openers Don. Now specifically, how “deleterious” are these local, state and federal debt instruments? Like is there some kind of a cost/benefit, pros/cons trade-offs type analysis on the consequences and price young people are going to have to pay? What impacts will they have on job creation, economic growth, healthcare, cost of living issues (gas, food, housing), clean water, public safety, etc.? And what can they do to prevent, reduce, eliminate unacceptable consequences?— December 4, 2007 12:21 p.m.
U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
Response to post #9: Actually Don, continuing to focus on the information needs of your young constituency is a most important journalistic responsibility today. It is your young readers who need the most help dealing with immediate consequences of the failures by the generations who came before them. Especially failures to protect quality of life, and deal with issues of highest priority to them such as the job creation, economic growth, healthcare, cost of living issues (like gas, food, living spaces), clean water, public safety, etc.— December 4, 2007 11:11 a.m.
U-T Announces Massive Buyout Plan
Looks like the U-T has passed a tipping point where their failures to provide quality information have accumulated to the point where they are disintegrating into irrelevancy. This most certainly gives The Reader new opportunities to provide information and suggest solutions to problems that the spectrum of your young readers need to focus on to deal with problems facing them with increasing intensity. We have most certainly ended the era of not having to worry as much about consequences because there were far more choices and opportunities, and entered a new era of consequences that were unforeseen or ignored, an era where we have far fewer choices and opportunities.— December 4, 2007 3:55 a.m.
Union-Tribune To Lop 15-20 More Heads
One thing the U-T has failed to do, that The Reader has a perfect opportunity to do, is to provide credible advice to your readers on solutions to problems that are having the greatest impact on our lives. San Diego government is a worst case in point because citizens were never informed about how they could have prevented the moral and financial bankruptcies of our civic leaders that all of us are having to suffer the totally unacceptable consequences of today. As your columns document continuously, corruption is a root cause of the decline and fall of San Diego, but how could we have prevented the overwhelming amount of corruption that is destroying quality of life in San Diego? There have to be better ways to do things, but no one is providing any credible advice that citizens can use to prevent so many problems from getting even further out of control. The U-T has not only failed to carry out their responsibility to the people of San Diego, and they are paying the price for their failures, but their failures are taking San Diego down with it, leaving The Reader literally as our last line of defense. Right now you are doing an excellent job in documenting the problems, but what do you advise for solutions?— December 3, 2007 2:18 a.m.
Union-Tribune To Lop 15-20 More Heads
Thank you Don. Are you going to issue a new Declaration of Independence from the U-T kleptocracy any time soon? It’s time to vote out, if not recall, every corrupt U-T “Ballot Recommendations” controlled politician to prevent the next firestorm that now occur every four years, or less. The U-T kleptocracy has proven that they do not care about protecting public safety and property, that they are dedicated exclusively to personal wealth and political power for their ruling U-T class and their corrupt politicians regardless of how hideous the consequences are to all San Diego citizens.— December 2, 2007 2:39 a.m.
Union-Tribune To Lop 15-20 More Heads
Well then, I guess it’s time for Don Bauder and Matt Potter to restore the spirit of Ben Franklin and provide us with a San Diego Reader-Gazette. The Reader is already dedicated to the most important demographics in San Diego, and they most certainly need to take control of their own future just as much as Ben et al. did since the U-T establishment is just another version of Tory culture betraying citizens with impunity. Ever since the U-T establishment elected Mayor Susan Golding 1992, followed by Murphy and Sanders, San Diego has had a kleptocracy resulting most recently in 22 deaths and incineration of one quarter of San Diego County in the 2003 and 2007 firestorms. If that doesn’t ignite and disturb San Diegans to take action nothing can, and it’s up to the San Diego Reader-Gazette to inform us in a whole new way by providing us with facts and solutions to the destruction produced by the U-T kleptocracy.— December 1, 2007 4:09 p.m.