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San Diego Unemployment Rises to 9.4% as Job Losses Grow
Response to post #6: Thanks for answering #5 Don, Visduh is obviously a member of the U-T Ed Bd. As I said in another of your blogs yesterday: "With Friends Like Reid and Pelosi, Obama Doesn't Need Enemies." Today the failures of the democratic congressional leadership are causing almost as much destruction of the future for young Reader generations as the traitor republican politicians have been doing for the last eight years and counting. It's time for a Twitter Revolution To Restore American Democracy for We the People, replacing republican and democratic congressmen, forcing congress to protect and guarantee economic, social and environmental future the younger generations as their highest priority.— June 20, 2009 4:55 a.m.
San Diego Unemployment Rises to 9.4% as Job Losses Grow
Don, I used to think this recession, unemployment, economic disaster was entirely the creation of the Bush Autocracy, but after watching Reid and Pelosi fail the tests of leadership ever since the new Obama Autocracy took over the characterization “With Friends Like Reid and Pelosi, Obama Doesn’t Need Enemies” keeps coming to mind daily. If the younger Twitter generation voters don’t declare a new American Twitter Generation Voter Revolution that forces the immediate replacement of all current democratic congressional leaders with real leaders dedicated to fast track implementation of actions to guarantee an acceptable quality of life for their future then it is hopeless. But the real trick is to find democratic leaders in congress who haven’t already betrayed the future for younger Twitter generation voters.— June 19, 2009 1:38 p.m.
CNBC Features Tom Gores, Mike Aguirre -- Separately
Don, it's time to get serious about focusing on solving San Diego’s problems created by the Copley Union-Tribune era and not allow sensationalism to distract us any longer. Reading your reports, the new owners of the U-T do not appear to be serious about journalism which means that solutions to San Diego's escalating problems will be delayed even longer while our political, economic, environmental and social institutions descend further into the dumper of failed civilizations. Your reports keep proving that we are stuck in a spiraling decline due to our culture of instant gratification that has refused to plan and protect extremely precious and increasingly limited resources far too long. To overcome the consequences of the failures created by our older generations, the younger Reader generations must be encouraged to maximize the use of every remedial option at their disposal using all available communications media to prevent the increasingly unacceptable environment and social breakdowns from producing a quality of life they won’t be able to enjoy at all. The younger generations of voters must use The Reader Blogs, Twitter, etc. to produce a peaceful Revolution To Save San Diego from the consequences of destruction created by the Copley U-T and San Diego’s failed political and economic leaders.— June 19, 2009 4:19 a.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to post #28: Well I guess that all us older generations can do at this point is to pray for the younger generations because our older generations were fat, dumb and happy for far too long while our political, economic and social systems kept getting further and further out of control. No longer can older generations say "the younger generations act like they are going to hell." As of now, it is our older generations that definitely screwed the future for the younger generations and put them in hell. That's why I must emphasize most strongly that it is up to the newest generations of voters to take the repair of their world into their own hands using their laptops and wireless Internet connections to the worldwide web to enable them to perform many voters-to-many voters communications to make the right things happen again with the required sense of urgency. However, I wouldn't blame them for telling us to go to hell for anything we tell them to do at this point. How ironic, when I went to college our motto of life was "Never trust anyone over 30" and we sure proved that point.— June 18, 2009 12:58 p.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to posts #24 & #26: Indeed Don, the "inside racket" is a root cause of the bailout bubble that is accelerating the primary failure mode "contributing to the ruination of capitalism." Even worse, during the last 8 years the Cheney-Bush Autocracy redefined GOP = CRAP (Communist Republican Anti-American Party) for their betrayals of America while they sold out millions of American jobs and the Wealth of America to communist china. At least we have the best possible President during this time of greatest need for such a leader, but current democratic congressional leaders have a horrendous record of screwing things so badly that they may very well end up negating President Obama's best efforts. The first imperative in Washington is to replace the leaders of both parties ASAP with a new breed of true leaders who are totally dedicated to the concept of We The People once again. It is up to the newest generations of voters to take the repair of their world into their own hands using their laptops and wireless Internet connections to the worldwide web to enable them to perform many voters-to-many voters communications to make the right things happen again with the required sense of urgency, just like the Declaration of Independence was used to create American Democracy in the first place, but this time with www.AmericanRevolution using the worldwide web.— June 18, 2009 4:29 a.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to posts #21 & 22: Actually Don, corporate boards of directors really function as labor unions for America’s most elite aristocracy, and their imperial impunity is further guaranteed with bailout rewards bestowed by their vassal politicians, and protected by a corrupt judicial system that has overthrown the Rule of Law for political purposes. American Democracy has now returned to the BC days of Athens before Archon Solon created Democracy and the Rule of Law to prevent revolution against the aristocracy in Greece. And the worst fact is that politicians in both parties get huge bonuses every time they enable their corporate masters to ship another million American jobs to communist china. So it has become imperative for the rest of us to form our own union to protect ourselves from politicians and their corporate masters who have now totally destroyed the “Buy American” cultural value that The Greatest Generation fought and died for to create and protect.— June 16, 2009 11:42 a.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to post #18 P.S: Don, let's face the fact that Congress, the CA Legislature and San Diego City Council function first and foremost as labor unions who protect their own elite membership as if they are an aristocracy that is entitled to plunder the Wealth of America, California and San Diego for their own personal wealth and power as their highest priority regardless of consequences to all hard working Americans, Californians and San Diegans.— June 16, 2009 5:50 a.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to posts #14 & 16: Re “If you know how to do anything about this, please state it.” OK Don, we appear to agree that the number one root cause of the economic failures America is experiencing today is that politicians and corporate executives have been so corrupt and greedy that they have betrayed and damned near destroyed everything that The Greatest Generation sacrificed and built for America. Thus we must overcome the culture of greed and corruption that our elected representatives have totally failed to protect We The People from. Union labor has proven far too many times that they know how to fight back to obtain pay and benefits security for their members, things that every hard working American have a right to expect. But our politicians have enabled corporate executives to export far too many American jobs, manufacturing, and expertise to communist china in the meantime. Unions have proven to be the only current American institution that fights back effectively so far against politicians and executives who have sold out America for far too long now. Thus labor unions are the only way we can “do anything about this” at the present time.— June 16, 2009 5:09 a.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to post #12: Yes SanDiegoParrothead, Labor Unions because the number one fact is that millions of American Heroes and Patriots sacrificed everything to protect American Democracy from communism in Korea and Nam only to have their sacrifices betrayed by Wall Street and Washington who sold out the Wealth of America to communist china ever since. So it is once again time for hard working American labor and middle class to rededicate ourselves to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence by separating ourselves from the corrupt Wall Street controlled republican and democratic party leaders who sold America out to communist china, time once again to institute a new government by electing hard working American labor to boards of directors and congress using Democracy as it was designed to be used by our Founders to provide new guards for our future security like they sacrificed everything to create in the first place. A “Bubble” has indeed burst already, it is the bubble of greed and corruption, and it is time to fight back to save what is left of the Wealth of America, by rededicating Washington and Wall Street to rebuilding American Democracy and Capitalism, to restore the Wealth of America that hard working American labor made possible.— June 15, 2009 3:15 p.m.
Bailout Bubble -- Watch Out
Response to post #10: Don, I have spent my lifetime dedicated to hard work, along with firm belief that American Democracy and Capitalism will make the best things happen for all Americans and the world, but the latest Wall Street/Washington "recession" has been the last straw that has destroyed my beliefs. I still believe in hard work, but I now most firmly believe that hard working labor unions are the only way to get America back on track to making the best things happen for all Americans and the world. The greatest truth is that American labor built America, while Wall Street and Washington have been destroying the American Way of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Wall Street and Washington sold out American labor and the middle class and it's time for labor unions to take control of corporations and the government to make America greater than ever before.— June 15, 2009 1:27 p.m.