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Local Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.5% in October
Response to post #16: Gosh, and I was taught that we had the best political and economic systems in history, that American Democracy + Capitalism mean that these levels of unemployment, poverty, sickness, starvation, hate, violence, etc. could never happen again after the lessons we learned from the 1929 Depression and WWII. The reality checks we are experiencing today just prove that we really haven't evolved all that much beyond the chimpanzee after all, we just fail more spectacularly with the ability to fail catastrophically.— November 25, 2009 12:06 p.m.
Local Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.5% in October
Response to post #14: Best wishes to the unemployed, that there is a major improvement in the economy with much greater employment next year. Let us pray that our political and economic systems make the right things happen with a sense of urgency to rebuild the Land of Opportunity.— November 24, 2009 3:59 a.m.
Local Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.5% in October
Response to post #9 & 10: As always, thank you for supporting free speech and the best interests of San Diego Don. As the unemployment statistics prove, We The People of San Diego, especially the Reader constituency need all the help we can get today. Considering the 24/7/365 republican-Tory propaganda spewed by Rupert Murdoch vassals at Fox, WSJ and his many other yellow journalism products throughout the world, one has to wonder if he used Streicher and Der Stermer for his role models. The most interesting development today is that so many people really believe Fox, and how close they are to adopting the mindset that Der Sturmer created in Germany. Murdoch is at least the resurrection of 18th century Tory attacks against America. One has to wonder if history repeating itself, and if Murdoch is grooming Limbaugh to become his next republican president?— November 23, 2009 3:24 a.m.
Local Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.5% in October
Response to post #3: Interesting how we now have to put up with at least eight more years of republican hatemongering and fearmongering after they spent eight years blaming every one of their failures and betrayals on Clinton and the democrats during the Bush years. Most tragically for America today, the republicans aren’t finished doing damage to America by a long shot, with their spokespersons bringing back memories of Goering (Cheney-Limbaugh) and Goebbels (Rove, et al.), as the republicans in congress produce their daily flow of verbal excrement. The Tory traitors of 18th century have been replaced by the GOP traitors of the 21st century and they are going to perpetuate the GOP recession with every betrayal they can think of with their deranged minds regardless of consequences. The one thing we keep learning most about history is that it just keeps getting repeated by hatemongers and fearmongers who want to control the world, and unemployment is just one of their demonic strategies.— November 22, 2009 4:20 a.m.
Local Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.5% in October
The economic destruction by the republican party continues.— November 21, 2009 3:17 a.m.
He Promised Investors 2% to 6% a Week; He's Headed to Prison
Another way to look at it is that any investor who believes a promise of "2% to 6% returns per week" deserves to be fleeced, and deleted from the gene pool. However, as for promises made by Wall Street one wonders if they might be leading America down a path to economic extinction, allowing China to win the survival of the fittest contest, at least until China follows us down the same greedy path to extinction.— November 17, 2009 11:44 a.m.
Can Feds thwart runaway exec pay?
Response to posts #24 & 25: Your points were validated by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett during the CNBC capitalist love-in at Columbia Business School last night. It was so stirring and inspirational that they almost held hands singing We Shall Overcome.— November 13, 2009 2:22 a.m.
Can Feds thwart runaway exec pay?
Response to post #22: That's an intereting obfuscation Don, you might try running for office. The reality is that we are truly screwed, no matter how much anyone denies the facts.— November 12, 2009 2:27 p.m.
Can Feds thwart runaway exec pay?
Response to posts #15 & 19: Well said summary by both of you. Every day on the news we are watching an updated replay of the fall of the Roman Empire, starring corrupt politicians, greedy aristocracy and hatred of the common man who are not the same race, color and creed that we are. Failed American Democracy by both political parties, plundering of the Wealth of America by Washington and Wall Street, hate, uncontrollable population, plus global warming destruction of our water and food supplies are far too many things to overcome already. That is, unless Obama can figure a way to do something like walking on water to get everyone to pay attention to turning mankind around and really follow the Golden Rule so we can save humanity before all the tipping points topple.— November 12, 2009 12:33 p.m.
Can Feds thwart runaway exec pay?
Response to post #6: I really don’t think that the way things have been going with aristocracies and the elite being politically enabled to fleece everyone else, in 1929, 2009 etc. that "The mentally meek shall inherit the earth." If so, it shall most certainly be a hell on earth that has been destroyed by the special interests that control both of our political parties. The biggest lesson in evolution to be learned is that the so-called “fittest” are taking corruption, greed and hate to unlivable levels. If the “bully pulpit and a big stick” are “only a hope” then we are well and truly screwed because it ain’t going to happen as long as the republican party leaders dominate the democratic party leaders. Especially when the truth is that with democratic party leaders as friends, who needs enemies!? And lots of luck with your theory of “Basically, change must come from the grass roots. People must pressure companies and politicians” especially because one bottom line is as you concluded “Concerned that politicians will listen to an enraged public, some companies could go straight. Don’t count on it.” The real bottom line appears to be that our “reckless and incompetent” politicians in both parties are proving in Washington, Sacramento and San Diego every day that evolution can destroy life far easier that it can protect and improve life on earth, and the "mentally meek shall inherit the earth" that is being destroyed by the reckless and the incompetent that are accelerating the decline and fall of American Democracy.— November 12, 2009 2:14 a.m.