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Total Bailout Bill to Date: $12.8 Trillion
Actually Don, we have already experienced more than “several ugly years” due to key Republican leadership cultural values of treason, greed, corruption and hate. Most importantly, we must never forget that a much higher price is still being paid for republican betrayals of America in the Middle East costing hellacious losses of lives and hideous lifetime injuries to America’s Finest Military Heroes and Patriots. Thus “$12.8 trillion” and counting is just one of the prices we are now paying for eight years of republican special interest greed. Beyond that there are the never-ending Republican Party corruption/betrayals of American labor and the Wealth of America by GOP special interests that have exported American jobs, expertise and manufacturing to Communist China and far too many other countries for well over eight years. And the list just keeps getting longer with increasing economic and social chaos as direct consequences of republican party leadership culture of hate that is out of control.— April 4, 2009 12:47 p.m.
Lead Indicators of San Diego Economy as Gloomy as Ever
Response to post #7: Picky, picky, picky, just proves that no one can meet everyones' expectations, hopes and dreams in America today. But regardless of start-up considerations, it will be results that count, so settle down until Obama has a chance to make things really happen in the right direction again after eight years of sabotage of America by Bush-Cheney and their puppet GOP in congress, and Wall Street. That is to say, during the last eight years the republicans have exceeded some of bin Laden's most deranged nightmares for America and it will take several miracles to undo their post-9/11 sabotage of American Democracy and American Capitalism. Never forget that the GOP gave a whole new meaning to "With friends like the GOP, who needs terrorists?"— March 29, 2009 11:40 a.m.
Lead Indicators of San Diego Economy as Gloomy as Ever
Darn Don, I thought that if I simply went away and left you alone you would fix San Diego, but your Blog just keeps documenting the precipitous decline of “gloomy” and “dismal” San Diego with columns like this one. Since my last post S&P ranked California bonds in last place, lower than Louisiana making them sewer grade, while San Diego politics had already been characterized as sewer grade by Donna Frye in National Geographic, it would seem that things just could not get any worse, again. In this brave new world of instant worldwide communications available for everyone to participate in solving problems together with, why can’t we use this new technology to end the U-T era where Mayors like Sanders can continue to shove San Diego further into the sewer until even New Orleans looks refreshing in comparison? After all, President Obama just got elected using the latest information and participation technologies to maximize his chances for success, so why can’t we fix San Diego using the same methods? Or to put forth another solution, when is The Reader going to buy out and fix San Diego’s greatest source of sewage --- the U-T so you can fix San Diego at last?— March 28, 2009 2:27 p.m.
List of Madoff Investors Now Public. Some San Diegans Tell Their Tales of Woe
Don, a root cause of the current failure of American Democracy in Washington is the failures of all of our institutions to focus on protecting and preserving humanity instead of letting greed rule. One of the worst-case consequences of our institutionalized greed is that some of the people that Bernie Madoff stole from were survivors of the nazi holocaust and Madoff forced them to endure one more atrocity in their lives because of the failures of congress that has even allowed him to continue to live like royalty. To make their atrocities against the public good even worse congress has been performing theatrical CYA of themselves by publicly condemning the SEC, but the truth is that congress failed to perform oversight over the SEC and too many other federal agencies. The key fact is that Congressmen/women in both parties failed to perform their obligation of “Checks and Balances” over the Bush White House thus causing the recession. This scenario deserves the highest condemnation of our congressional and judicial systems, but as TV reporting continues to document it appears that there is little hope that our government will save us from even more unbearable economic disaster, that is unless President Obama is capable of a miracle in Washington at last.— February 9, 2009 12:39 p.m.
Clouds on SDG&E’s Sunny Plans
Sadly since this column seems to be DOA due to NORC, one last observation on the opening focus point of "fighting global warming" for the NORCers to marginalize. At this critical and rapidly escalating of control point in history we Homo sapiens have two choices left, evolve or become extinct. Lessons of evolutionary biology and historical geology prove current events are not working in our favor because we are most definitely not evolving.— February 2, 2009 12:31 p.m.
Clouds on SDG&E’s Sunny Plans
P.S. With regard to the subject of this column, it is imperative that we fast track construction of nuclear power and desalination parks along our coast. The imperative for nuclear power is magnifying with the rapidly escalating economic problems produced by the current recession along with global warming and our nation’s imperative to restore our reputation as the land of opportunity once again so future generations can have at least the same quality of life that we have today. With regard to the safety issue, it is most ironic that we have nuclear powered ships home ported and traveling to and from San Diego continuously and no one seems to be concerned about the safety of the USN nuclear power plants that prove they can be safe enough for crews who have lived with them ever since the USS Nautilus first sailed in 1955.— February 1, 2009 11:12 a.m.
Clouds on SDG&E’s Sunny Plans
Welcome back to San Diego Business reporting Craig. No one in San Diego knows more than you about Sempra CEO betrayals of SDG&E residential ratepayers, like the 2000 San Diego Energy Crisis that was created and perpetuated by Baum and Felsinger. Sempra bloodsucker class executives must be forced to be responsible and held accountable for their continuing larceny of residential rate-payers by sucking the blood out of SDG&E for Sempra profits to guarantee their own royalty class lifestyle, as many of your columns have documented in the past. And today Sempra is accelerating the San Diego recession. You are the best person to expose their larceny and force accountability at last.— January 31, 2009 12:47 p.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
Response to post #18 & 19: Well said shizzyfinn and JohnnyVegas. Regardless of our initial concerns about Obama, let's at least give him 100 days to turn rhetoric into actions. If he saves us from a GOP Depression I'll be very happy with that for openers. And if he gets everyone that is unemployed back into good paying jobs and benefits for those who want to work hard to rebuild America I'll be overjoyed beyond my wildest dreams. Unfortunately, it still appears that both the republican and democratic members of congress are still doing business as usual to perpetuate their aristocratic welfare state, and I can only hope that the voters will support Obama enough to force congressmen and women to accept responsibility and accountability for their failures at last. We most certainly need a new beginning to prove that American Democracy really can overcome over 50 years of criminal negligence by our elected representatives.— January 17, 2009 10:36 a.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
Response to post #12: "--- Now the deep recession is picking those pockets, too. Will San Diegans wake up?" The answer is most obviously "NO". San Diego republican voters have proven to be the stupidest people in America after electing three republicans in a row, Golding, Murphy and Sanders who have robbed the City treasury for over 16 years to increase their own personal wealth as their highest priority. On top of this, during the last eight years Washington republicans have caused every major problem we have in America today from betrayals of our military and the U.S. Constitution to the Depression we are descending into that you and the 2008 Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman are warning us about daily. As long as brain-dead republican voters exist to drive homo sapiens into extinction it is no wonder that republican politicians refuse to cut their royalty class pay and benefits to share the pain of the disasters they created.— January 16, 2009 12:45 p.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
Don, I think it is time for us to demand that all of our local, state and federal politicians and executive bureaucrats take at least an immediate 20% cut in pay and benefits. The wealth of America will suffer at least a 20% decline due to this recession and it’s time for politicians to share the pain, time to lead us out of the recession they aided and abetted with their gross negligence in leadership. Giving away taxpayer monies to robber barons like Moores and Spanos is just one form of local government larceny that is a root cause of the current destruction of San Diego economy.— January 15, 2009 12:22 p.m.