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San Diego plays big role in Field of schemes
Hey, we must lay low on Moores. Remember how some local established media did a poster boy pictorial of John Moores...about how he is Mr. Philanthropist, how he is friends with Jimmy Carter? I think it was KFMB-8 did a big piece the other day on how Petco Park has been so wonderfully beneficial to downtown San Diego. Funny, they interviewed bar operators but no condo owners. I wonder when you work or live in downtown, and need to drive, whether the day of a ball game is really all that great for you. I wonder when all those spectators walk past your overpriced condo, and urinate $8/bottle beer, on your doorsteps, whether that should be considered "progress"? I understand the concept of whores, johns (John Moores) and prostitution, and the involvement of our local elected leader-failures offering up corporate welfare to sports owners at taxpayer's expense. What I really get high blood pressure over, is the pimping by local news outlets (except the READER and except Don Bauder) to the public, working 24/7 to $ell us on how great it is that we subsidize sports. Seems the same NLP or subliminal model is interchanged for sports welfare and unjust wars on foreign (sovereign) countries.— April 4, 2008 11:55 p.m.
San Diego plays big role in Field of schemes
Yes, I heard something similar that $8 and $9 plastic bottles of beer would keep people from drinking more. If that were the truth, you know they'd just stop selling alcohol since alcohol seems to always cause more problems than benefits, especially for longer durations and in sporting events where the emotions run high, and many people are crowded together. The profits from beer $ales are way too high though, so you can imagine the same entities that banned beer from beaches, would never-ever consider the same for Petco Park and Qualcom Stadium.— April 4, 2008 1:16 p.m.
San Diego plays big role in Field of schemes
As always, I commend Don Bauder for something he does, and boldly: Telling the truth. Not only telling it but doing investigative financial journalism that few others have the courage and capacity to do. I would love to see Don come out with some new books. I would read them as I am now enjoying the reading of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Scary! I always tilted towards being a conservative and lived the concept of compassionate capitalism, but find we have moved so far from those polarities that I'd say the traditions of conservatism were hijacked by the current administration. Don, your article might answer for me, why last weekend, prior to the Padres home opener, that almost every TV and radio news/talk outlets spent abusive amounts of time prepping us for the game on Monday. $8.25 per bottle of Bud beer at Petco, might explain part of the money-making equation...but the folks still flock there and pay it, so how could I be so critical. KFMB-8 reported that the average cost for a family of four to go to a Padres game is over $200! The average ticket cost is $27! What happened to the ball park being built for all of San Diegans?— April 3, 2008 9:46 p.m.