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Despite Alleged Conflicts, Bersin Gets Border Post on Interim Basis
Burwell, illegals can't claim welfare, nor unemployment, we've been through this before. ======= This is not true. Illegals who have US born children are eligible to receive WIC payments, welfare, food stamps, and Section 8 housing subsidies.— March 29, 2010 6:35 p.m.
Despite Alleged Conflicts, Bersin Gets Border Post on Interim Basis
It appears that Grassley believes Bersin may be paying his household staff in cash under the table, and not forking over the payroll taxes he owes. This is very troubling if true. First, both Bersin and his wife are lawyers and should be held to the highest standard of ethical and legal conduct. Second, failing to pay these taxes could well be a crime. It is well known that most of those working for cash under the table also illegally collect welfare and unemployment benefits from the state. This is the major cause of the state's financial collapse. Grassley's concerns need to be addressed and resolved before Bersin is allowed to assume his position at Customs.— March 28, 2010 11:14 p.m.
Scott Kessler works with FBI investigating Marco Li Mandri
GIVE ME MY CITY BACK! ======= That't what I say. I blame the slack jawed midwesterners and easterners who infest this city like maggots on a dead carcass for the city's woes. They are the ones who elect politicians like Sanders to public office and do not care about the city or the state of its finances. They are the ones who tolerate, and even support, outrages like the proposed convention center expansion and the new Chargers stadium. They are the reason why older neighborhoods like North Park, Bankers Hill, and Pacific Beach have been destroyed by the proliferation of cracker box apartment buildings.— March 20, 2010 11:34 p.m.
Padres Have Zero Chance to Make Playoffs?
Response to post #53: Whichever won the wager would have one thing: online proof that the bet was made. ========= You better not wager. Dumanis might indict the lot of you because of your attacks on her.— March 17, 2010 10:26 p.m.
Fundamentalist Group Wants to Reform Court System
I believe the big oil companies had divided up the Iraq oil lands before we invaded; that's why Cheney fought so hard to keep the records of those meetings with the oil companies secret. ========== Greenspan said in his book that he believes Bush invaded Iraq to seize control of the oil.— March 17, 2010 7:27 p.m.
Fundamentalist Group Wants to Reform Court System
There was a great scholar at UCSD, whose name escapes me at the moment, who declared correctly that, "War is organized theft." =========== Was the scholar Herbert Marcuse? He was violently opposed to the Vietnam war and advocated socialism from his pulpit at USCD. The San Diego Union attacked him relentlessly and drove him from USCD. After he died it was revealed that he was worth $10 million and owned shares in defense contractors, including Dow Chemical, the company that manufactured napalm during the Vietnam war.— March 17, 2010 7:25 p.m.
Little Italy Scamsters Offering up to 96% Headed to Prison
It's true that the casinos are legal, but it still seems to me that policing the gambling should be the job of the casino. Best, Don Bauder ======= It should be legal to defraud a casino. The only legal remedy a casino should have against a scamster is to ban him from the premises. Remember that San Diegan who inherited a big construction company and tons of cash and then sued a Vegas casino because he lost millions at blackjack?— March 16, 2010 7:37 p.m.
We Don't Want You Taking Pictures
The man was smoking a cigarette in public, spreading cancer to non-smokers. There's only one way to handle someone who displays sociopathic behavior in public: put him down, and hard. These rent a cops should be commended for their quick response.— February 28, 2010 10:48 a.m.
Journal Mentions San Diego in Chapter 9 Story
Funny... I thought Mr. Goldsmith said he was unable to find any case, in the nation, where a federal bankruptcy judge had altered the vested pension benefits. I don't believe he said they couldn't be changed, just that he found no case where they had been changed. ======== In a bankruptcy scenario the pension plan would likely be terminated outright and dissolved. Current and retired city workers would receive checks for their share of plan assets which they could rollover into an IRA and nothing more. The existing defined benefit plan would disappear and be replaced with a government version of the 401(k) and social security. Once the city exited bankruptcy the taxpayer would have no further liability to retirees or current employees for unfunded pension benefits. City workers like JW would be well advised to obtain the 40 quarters needed to qualify for social security benefits before it's too late.— February 20, 2010 10:48 p.m.
Journal Mentions San Diego in Chapter 9 Story
Goldsmith's oral legal opinions are not worth the paper they're written on.— February 19, 2010 10:57 p.m.