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Thanks Don: And Bush-II (43) got us into trillion-dollar plus wars, and we still need to repay that debt, Obama, while his ambitions may have been good, got us into a broken healthcare system, that many of my friends have opted out of, saying they cannot afford it. The Great Mess is being pushed to the end of the ledger where one day someone needs to pay the piper. And it will be the working stiffs.— July 24, 2018 1:17 p.m.
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If politicians, numerous GOV agencies, corporations, churches, non-profits, news media, and all of us in the public, do not start addressing the homeless and housing crisis: the only use left for the Convention Center will be a big homeless shelter for more and more folks. The current model and myopia is unsustainable. The Trump military parade won't stop it, the cheerleaders for Trump (and handlers plus minions) conning Americans into thinking our economy is the best ever, won't be able to stop a Depression style disaster in our cities when the economy takes its next turn, much worse than 2007/8. I hope I am wrong--that Trump will prove me wrong, but I am a skeptic by nature (flew airplanes and one must be like a paranoid cat as careful aviators), and lots of smoke, dope & mirrors being used these days against the masses. The Middle-Class is being squeezed more and more, wealth/income inequity is growing, and from what I have read, the Middle-Class have not had a real wage increase (paired to cost-of-living/inflation) since the 1970's. It is not just Trump, many past presidents and their administrations have been driving us to where we REALLY are.— July 24, 2018 10:23 a.m.
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True 'dwbat' though Donald Trump is stepping up his attacks on WaPo and also Amazon. Amazing we see our POTUS operating this way. And just when I was afraid of Putin. What have we become? I fear the trend-line.— July 23, 2018 10:43 p.m.
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Thanks Don, sad when we see any independent journalists under threat. Journalists are largely our guardians of democracy, and I fear what could come next (1984).— July 23, 2018 10:12 p.m.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-long-slow-painf…— July 23, 2018 9:11 p.m.
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Hi Don, thanks for the compliments and good information. I guess I will avoid trying to get any writing job at the New York Post, I hear they let 50% of their news writers/staffers go today. With exception of a few cities, it seems the local politicians only use Band-Aid approaches to the homeless. They love to spin it that they are addressing and will solve the problems in one meeting, while their next meeting is to give sweetheart deals (corporate welfare as you call it) to developers and merchants so they can tear down old affordable housing and rebuild expensive mixed use towers. I recall when Roger Hedgecock used his platform (KSDO + KOGO) to cheer lead the building of Petco Park, and get a new stadium for the Chargers, he eventually opened his steakhouse on 5th Avenue (Roger's on 5th). Don't know how much an owner he was (%/$) in that adventure, it did end up failing. I always expected Roger, Dean Spanos, John Moores & Jerry Sanders to exit some private back room full of cigar smoke, spent $500/bottles of wine, a few Cheetahs strippers, laughing about how they'd get a stadium built downtown even if a 2012 tsunami destroyed the site. All of them repeat the quote "build it and they will come" (Field of Dreams movie). Of course Roger closely guarded the front door of that place (he really did, he was a common greeter) so he could keep Bruce Henderson out (so Bruce could not document the Spanos Cartel's players coming and going from Roger's conference facility).— July 23, 2018 2:35 p.m.
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Hi Don, I never have liked women with green faces, ever since Wizard of Oz scared the heck out of me as a young kid. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2018/j…— July 23, 2018 2:17 p.m.
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Hi Don, either that or Uncle Jerry (Jerry Sanders) ghost wrote that for Forbes, used a real reporters name, in exchange for 20 free tickets to next year's Comic Con. I mean you gotta keep the wheels-of-commerce moving with whatever lubricants best work.— July 23, 2018 12:54 p.m.
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Hi Don, the way Little Italy is in some kind of hyper gentrification (Mach 3) that many of us could never afford the rent there, let alone to buy a 122 square foot loft above the water fountain that features a food bar, microbrewery and 3 folks in a band singing in Italian (or maybe that was Farsi and they were Persians), why the only thing we can do is wish that Logan Heights remains affordable (since Yuma is too hot today). However, the Little Italy DEM (micro-demographic), is finding all those homeless and transient types peeing on their front door steps very offensive (which is is, but the dogs peeing on the homeless sleeping on the sidewalk is also offensive and disrespectful). My guess: the community associations and councils in high places will order Little Italy to become the largest gated community outside the Vatican, only facial recognition on positive-ID will allow one to enter Little Italy (or a $300 bottle of wine to offer a resident). Private security armed sharp shooters will keep everyone safe, and the eateries will have even more happy and smiling people.— July 23, 2018 12:35 p.m.
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