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Excessive Labor Costs Force Vallejo to Vote for Bankruptcy
What the City should do is draw up a bankruptcy petition, and call in the leaders of the recalcitrant unions. =================================== This is too simple (and smart) for our mentally and mathematically challenged leaders to figure out. You understand this simple plan, your readers understand it, I am sure even a trained circus...errr.....elephant! ... could understand figure it. But, when it comes to our City leaders facing down the unions it becomes incomprehensible rocket science.— May 7, 2008 8:06 p.m.
Union-Tribune Lays Off Three Who Spearheaded Electronic News, Radio Efforts
Well, now that they have been given pink slips; Someone find out who banned my Johnny Vegas account!— May 7, 2008 8:01 p.m.
San Diego City Council accused of over-sized pay raise
I agree with realnews. We should actually LOWER the salary, for two reasons; 1- They just do not deserve it based on the performance; 2- A lower salary would attract people who want to fix the Cities problems instead of lining their own pocket. There are TONS of qaulified applicants who could do a better job than the people we have there now-and for less money. In addition, this is the same nonsense talking points the FD and PD use, "we need to pay more to attract better people". PD and FD jobs get 100 applicants for every job opening (same with K-6 school teachers), and out of those 100 applicants 75% could do the job competently-there is just no need to pay more for these jobs.— May 7, 2008 4:53 p.m.
Excessive Labor Costs Force Vallejo to Vote for Bankruptcy
The only people who say we are under taxed are the San Diego City employees, so they can get a tax increase-and thereby increase in their pay and gold plated benefits-both already much higher than that in the private sector. It would make no difference if San Diego were one of the lowest taxed cities in Californa, or not (I do not believe it is personally), because California is the highest taxed state in the union. Anyone living in CA is getting paid less and being charged more in living expenses than any other state in the union. Poor and middle class taxpayers should not be footing the bill for gold plated Cadillac benefits and pensions for HS educated, blue collar City employees-and I am specificlly talking about the FD and the PD. Not a seretary making $30K per year with no O/T and a retiremnt package that is 1/10th of what the PD/FD receive. To Just Wondering regarding city assets and BK. No real property City assets would be at risk or sold in a Chapter 9 BK proceeding, it is just not the same for a government as it is for a personal or business BK filing.— May 7, 2008 4:42 p.m.
Excessive Labor Costs Force Vallejo to Vote for Bankruptcy
When you pay this much money -NOT COUNTING PENSION AND BENEFITS- to HS educated blue collar workers who have no prior work experience, then you end up like Vallejo and San Diego, upside down and underwater financially (San Diego is next in line). Citywide rank Employee name Department Total wages 1 Joann West Police Department $435,638 2 Ivano G. Paoli Fire Department $350,212 3 Joseph M. Tanner Executive Department $316,688 4 Ronald W. Becker Police Department $299,143 5 James L. Higgins Fire Department $251,094 6 Lamonte K. Morris Fire Department $247,902 7 Russell S. Sherman Fire Department $238,725 8 Richard E. Mackenzie Fire Department $236,701 9 John A. Barbuzano Fire Department $236,467 10 Gordon C. Moncibais Fire Department $233,338 11 Michael Kirchner Fire Department $229,317 12 Gregory R. Falkenthal Fire Department $226,235 13 Alphonzo L. Love Fire Department $223,933 14 Michael Deroque Fire Department $222,755 15 Douglas T. Robertson Fire Department $221,458 16 Kurt P. Henke Fire Department $218,830 17 Raymand R. Dandridge Fire Department $217,920 18 David A. Urrutia Fire Department $215,060 19 Sean Fields Fire Department $214,219 20 William G. Donovan Police Department $213,768 21 Mansfield S. Simmons Fire Department $212,395 22 Herman E. Robinson Police Department $211,556 23 Kevin M. Kelley Police Department $211,382 24 John J. Ha Fire Department $209,547 25 Robert W. Nichelini Police Department $207,294 http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/vallejo/?appSession=1…— May 7, 2008 2:03 p.m.
Famed Business Writer's Book Says Pensions Bankrupted San Diego
Let's get off the judges and talk about Lowenstein's acknowledgment of a truth San Diegans refuse to admit: the City is on the brink of bankruptcy. ====================================== The hole is too deep-we cannot get OUT. BK is the only answer. The worst part, as deep as the hole is, WE KEEP DIGGING! We have not even put the shovel down to stop digging the hole deeper, much less find a way to dig out of the hole.— May 6, 2008 4:03 p.m.
Famed Business Writer's Book Says Pensions Bankrupted San Diego
I think that the vast majority of judges, especially federal judges, try their best. But I also think that personal bias affects everyone, and this is also true of judges who swear to uphold the law and not their personal views. Bottom line is that some judges are down right stupid morons who should never have been allowed to sit on the bench, and this is expecially true of state court judges because they are elected.— May 5, 2008 1:57 p.m.
Award-winner milks Big Bear resort
Wow, 9 more posts and we hit the big 200.......seems this has been a hot topic!— May 5, 2008 10:43 a.m.
Famed Business Writer's Book Says Pensions Bankrupted San Diego
Pensions bankrupted San Diego....Nahhhh...who would have thought that???....Bwahahahahhahahaha. Where is JF to spin the facts when you need him????— May 5, 2008 10:40 a.m.
Memo to Fred Sainz: Clean Up Your Language -- But First Learn How To Spell
EVERYONE OVER 40 MUST RESIGN ELECTED OFFICE, BOTH POLITICAL AND JUDICIAL ==================== Hey, Im over 40, and I can GUARANTEE YOU I could get the City's financial house in order!— May 4, 2008 5:29 p.m.