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More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
NORC— July 18, 2008 2:37 a.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #13: Don, I guess we'll disagree about the great UCAN/City of San Diego/San Diego Shyster Court system betrayals of residential water/sewer customers. The Reader really ought to support Aguirre to a higher level because UCAN FLEECE US is the rule of law until Aguirre is supported wholeheartedly by San Diegans. The future of Gen Y and San Diego depends on re-electing Aguirre to keep fighting back against our Shyster/"Brash Cash" Davies Controlled Judicial System. As far as SDG&E/Sempra is concerned, step number one is to get rid of the CPUC President Peevey that braindead Gov. Gray Davis betrayed California ratepayers with before we kicked his stupid ass out of office. As long as Peevey reigns, corruption rules over California utilities. Right now it seems like he is President for life.— July 17, 2008 12:22 p.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
Response to post #4: "Please, won't somebody tell me what NORC means?" NORC is an acronym for No One Really Cares, it defines a paramount cultural value of every generation between The Greatest Generation and Gen Y. That's why the legacy being passed on to your Gen Y readers sucks, and also ties in with the attitudes resulting in "years of overconsumption, underproduction, excessive debt, excessive gambling, and generally living beyond our means, among other things." Relative to UCAN, their legal fees are obscene, especially for their failed lawsuit screwing residential water users one more time because UCAN lawyers failed to come close to recovering larceny of water fees by the U-T establishment water users. It is appropriate that water fees tie into sewage fees, because City Hall and the U-T are flooded with sewage politics as Donna Frye noted in her July 2006 National Geographic interview about coastal pollution "Let me tell you, dirty water, dirty politics, it all comes from the same source." But as all the lawyers and judges say, obscene fees are the only way to have justice in America, and of course Shames is a lawyer first and foremost so his "legal fees were in line" with those of all the other shysters in court that screw San Diego consumers, approved by U-T/Davies establishment judges of course. Relative to "More Wall Street Socialism," judges, lawyers and puppeticians are the root cause enabling all social, political and economic problems in America, California and San Diego today. That's why we have a hellacious history of firestorms instead of having enough firefighting resources to prevent firestorms, another example of the hideous consequences of our courts siding with the corrupt U-T/Davies "Brash Cash" establishment and against the citizens of San Diego. All the courts have to do is overrule everything Aguirre does, the simplest of all ways to perpetuate and maximize corruption in San Diego.— July 17, 2008 1:59 a.m.
More Wall Street Socialism: SEC Wants to Thwart Short Selling of Fannie, Freddie, Brokerage Stocks
It has already been established that San Diegans should wear a bumper sticker on our foreheads: UCAN FLEECE US But Wall Street and Main Street keep proving that all Americans can wear this kind of sticker since no one we send to Washington to protect us from corruption did anything to prevent this NORC enabled era of insane profligacy that is crashing and burning daily.— July 16, 2008 3:31 a.m.
Administration Wants To Bail Out Wall Street Through Massive Subsidy of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. But Market Not Buying It
Response to post #6: "We've been living in an era of deregulation, light regulation and no regulation." Don't you get it Don, we are living in some weird time warp where the Communist Chinese have cobbled together some capitalism and American Capitalist Democracy has been sold out to Communist China by Washington. Hell, even the U-T finally got an editorial right with "Lucrative rip-off" yesterday where they exposed Michael Shames and UCAN for committing judicially granted larceny of taxpayer funds with their outrageously obscene legal fees. Only in San Diego, the city where citizens get screwed by our own corrupt judiciary, making San Diego the Firestorm capital of America literally and figuratively.— July 15, 2008 12:07 a.m.
Administration Wants To Bail Out Wall Street Through Massive Subsidy of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. But Market Not Buying It
The only hope we have now is that the phony money presses burn themselves out from the overload because American currency is now valued lower than lead certificates while every politician in Washington has now betrayed “Made In America” and are kowtowing to Communist China.— July 14, 2008 2:25 p.m.
San Diego Spends Less Per Capita on Fire Protection Than Orange and Los Angeles Counties
Response to posts #8, 9 10: QUESTION: What plan does The Reader have in mind to energize your Gen Y readers to save themselves from the U-T Bloodsuckers and the NORC generation that took everything for ourselves and doesn’t give a damn about the future for Gen Y except to let it crash and burn? One of the main problems is that so few NORCers bother to vote anymore much less think so Murphy-Sanders Firestorms are the symbol of San Diego. First, GEN Y MUST NEVER TRUST THE NORC GENERATION who sold them out and Second, Gen Y must vote out Bloodsuckers like Sanders, Dumanis and Goldsmith to stop the Bloodsuckers’ puppeticians that NORCers keep re-electing from destroying San Diego completely.— July 14, 2008 2:18 p.m.
San Diego Spends Less Per Capita on Fire Protection Than Orange and Los Angeles Counties
Response to post #6: So the price of decades of Union-Tribune Establishment corruption is many $100s Millions losses to citizens of San Diego. Tragically, the hardest part is quantifying the costs of lives destroyed by the U-T culture of voracious greed that has been ready, willing and able to destroy lives with total Superior Court granted impunity to satisfy their out of control gluttony. For example, Moores’ Loser Padres have become a mediocre metaphor for what he and his kind have done to pathetic San Diego because of his insatiable greed that destroys everything he can control, from his corporate thefts from shareholders and employees to his larceny from San Diego citizens, to UC where as a regent he destroyed quality education throughout California, with no end in sight for the subsidies U-T puppeticians grant his seed of corruption loser team even today. It is fitting that America’s Worst Team represents America’s Most Corrupt City destroyed by the San Diego Bloodsucker Class today, one more of a continuing list of hideous icons that the San Diego U-T Establishment has conferred upon San Diego.— July 14, 2008 2:11 a.m.
San Diego Spends Less Per Capita on Fire Protection Than Orange and Los Angeles Counties
Response to post #4: QUESTION: What are the real costs of government corruption? Don, those in denial keep parroting that we don’t pay enough taxes, but the fact is that far too many of our taxes are wasted on government corruption and incompetence, taxes that should have been used to provide quality fire protection and other vitally needed public safety, health and infrastructure resources and services instead. San Diego has suffered the failures of far too many corrupt and incompetent mayors, most recently including Golding, Murphy and Sanders, mayors controlled by the establishment as you document in many of your columns that have committed larceny of public funds for the benefit of their special interests and personal gain. So what are the costs of corruption, such as: Subsidizing special interests that you continuously expose such as McMillan, Manchester, Spanos, Moores, Davies and an incredibly long list of et als Value of community losses as a result of larceny and subsidies causing foregone opportunities and resulting in increasingly outrageous consequences from firestorm deaths and destruction of property, increasing public safety and health problems and an out of control list of infrastructure problems Losses to community caused by establishment judges overthrowing the Rule of Law to benefit the establishment Incompetence of public officials who have totally failed to provide leadership, such as coordinating firefighting resources that we already have Larceny by public officials to increase personal wealth and retirement benefits Etc., you name it. What are the costs of the corruption that you have been reporting several times every week for years?— July 13, 2008 2:25 a.m.
San Diego Spends Less Per Capita on Fire Protection Than Orange and Los Angeles Counties
Scams by the U-T establishment, carried out by their puppeticians such as Sanders, enabled by the continuing Greer Court tradition of judicial corruption perpetuated by Murphy, Goldsmith et al. have cost the taxpayers of San Diego $100s of Millions if not over $Billion over the last few decades with no end in sight. You alone are exposing the seemingly infinite depth of U-T establishment corruption that has created out of control threats to public safety for every family in San Diego. You, along with Aguirre and Frye are the true Champions of San Diego’s taxpayers and citizens, trying to protect us from the U-T forces of hellacious evil that produce death, destruction and failed democracy. I am always struck by the fact that the republicans keep saying that governments are incompetent and keep proving that with their own sabotage, while the democrats keep aiding and abetting them by watching and doing nothing at the federal, state and local levels. Meanwhile the Union-Tribune keeps producing some of the most corrupt and destructive democracy in American history, and in spite of their failing subscribership they still have enough brain-dead sycophants to keep overthrowing Democracy in San Diego.— July 12, 2008 1:36 p.m.