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Dems and GOP fail to be frugal
In other news, the pension bill will go DOWN for the City of San Diego next fiscal year, dropping from $161 million to $154 million. https://www.sdcers.org/pressreleas/Press_Release_…— December 11, 2008 9:52 p.m.
Dems and GOP fail to be frugal
"Why don't they just drink water if they want to lose weight?" Water doesn't have caffeine. MsGrant does have a great message... one it took me years to learn and one I'm still learning every day.— December 11, 2008 9:42 p.m.
Goldsmith Continues Cheap Shots on City Website. He Criticizes Predecessor for Politicizing Office, Then Politicizes It Even More
Concerned, http://www.sandiego.gov/fm/annual/ And you're right about DeMaio. He bought houses in four different council districts just so he could pick a district he could win in. Wonder why he did that for a $75,000/year job?— December 11, 2008 3:04 p.m.
Hedge Fund in Which SDCERA Has Money Puts up Barriers to Redemptions
Johnny wrote, "Government has some of the biggest morons in the world working for it." Interesting. Johnny knocks gov't employees for being dumb, yet also knock gov't employee pay. Maybe if gov't paid more it could attract "smart" people, eh Johnny? What do you propose as an alternative? Anarchy?— December 11, 2008 2:59 p.m.
Aguirre Sums Up Criminal Activity That Led to Pension Deficit
You left out part of your sentence, Don. The beginning part... that should have read, "In Mikey's opinion..." because so far, the opinion of the courts has been different. Perhaps the reason that the charges haven't gone too far is because there in nowhere to go.— December 7, 2008 4:30 p.m.
November's Shocking 533,000 Jobs Loss Was Actually Far Worse
Luckily, unlike zombies, strung out junkies aren't too hard to defeat. Just distribute little balloons with ground up Valium.— December 6, 2008 6:53 a.m.
Dick Rider wants competition, Mike Aguirre wants bankruptcy
They have big salaries, retirements, job security. Why perform? Best, Don Bauder ====================== Why do you write, Don? I know it's hard to believe, but many city workers (myself included) love our jobs. I talk to employees from other departments all the time who like being city employees. Not for the pay and benefits, but for the job itself.— November 25, 2008 6:09 a.m.
Deflation Here? Consumer Prices Drop. So Do Stocks, Residential Real Estate, Commodities, and Consumer, Investor Confidence
I believe I heard today that home sales in SD are up 50% over last October. Sounds like it may have reached equilibrium here. We'll see.— November 19, 2008 9:56 p.m.
Dick Rider wants competition, Mike Aguirre wants bankruptcy
Wow, I never knew we had 240,000 city workers. That is 20% of the population, isn't it, Johnny? City workers are <1% of the population of SD. You are correct when you state that a municipality cannot be forced to sell property in a Chapter 9. Of course, certain properties in SD have already been hawked to the pension system, so it may be a little different here. There are certain places where managed competition could work in the city. So let's look at Rider's "Yellow Pages" analogy. The US Forest Service recently contracted out repair work on it's fire engines. The contractor hired had no experience with large truck repair. (Incidentally, this is a huge national company that also advertises contracted homeland security, personnel services, traffic management, etc.) All of the government owned tools were given to the contractor to assist with their new endeavor. The contractor refused to fix fire engines that were actually at fires or anywhere not in their own garage. The contractor eventually defaulted, but kept all of the tools. And all of the former government mechanics were promoted to contract inspectors. Since they were promoted, they could no longer work on trucks after the contractor defaulted. Not one was laid off -- rather all got raises. Yep, that's a heck of a way to save money. Bruvold has a point, but the non-union employees have already had a 7% pay cut. I'm not sure they'd stand for an additional 10%. The city has added more libraries than fire stations in the past 10+ years. That's just amazing to me. When it comes to the bottom line -- life and death -- which should be closed first?— November 19, 2008 9:55 p.m.
The Future Looks Blight!
Uh huh... how many applicants are there for the volunteer fire departments in the East County? As it turns out, less than 200 people qualified to interview for a job in this last round of hiring. (40-60 spots) Many of those didn't even bother to show up for the interview because other agencies are paying more and have better benefits. I have an idea... why don't you actually run for office and fix everything!— November 16, 2008 5:19 p.m.