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California Is in Such a Financial Quagmire That There Could Be Municipal Bankruptcies
Nonetheless, DB retirements and DROP are both perfectly sustainable programs. By JF 12:39 p.m., Apr 7, 2008 ========== Only if you call hitting the taxpayers with $200-$400 MILLION "perfectly sustainable". I don't, and neither does Mike Aguirre. DROP is just another one of the big fat rip offs the gov has played on the taxpayers.— April 7, 2008 12:46 p.m.
California Is in Such a Financial Quagmire That There Could Be Municipal Bankruptcies
JF, what is your work schedule? You say you work 56 hours per week? ===================== JF is "on call" 56 hours a week. JF does not "work" 56 hours per week, unless you call cooking, eating, working out, detailing the fire truck and all sorts of other things "work". I don't call that work, I call it "on call". There will not be a mass exodus of FF's, just not happening. If some do leave, hire new ones with a 6 year employment contract. BTW, the Vallejo list is from 2007, and yes it is current and up to date, and Vallejo is not going BK because of a loss of a military base (nice try JF)-it is going BK because they are paying HS educated blue collar FF/PD employees $200K-$435K per year in cash and another $50K-$100K per year in benefits. And Vallejo s NOT alone, at last count there were 17 cities/counties close to BK in CA (San Diego City, San Diego County, Chula Vista and Orange County to name a 4).— April 7, 2008 12:44 p.m.
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The trouble with investments in Costa Rica is that they are outside of U.S jurisdiction. ======= Well, if the scammers were recruiting/doing business from the US that would be all the jurisdiction you need. Also remember, in certain areas the US deems itself to have jurisdiction anywhere in the world. See The Office of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. I don't know enough about this to know what is going on in this case, but don't be surprised if the federal government gets involved by the fact that there are wire transfers and other methods (used for defrauding) which cross state and country lines.— April 7, 2008 8:26 a.m.
California Is in Such a Financial Quagmire That There Could Be Municipal Bankruptcies
You might also point out your fallacy when you state that employees are skilled only after the academy. (Which still blows holes in your "no pay raises for non-skilled job" since you just admitted that firefighting is a skilled job) All new firefighters must attend college and get a EMT license prior to hiring. ======= Stating that getting an EMT license prior to academy training (which the vast majority of FD's do NOT require) makes a FF "skilled” is like saying a cosmetologist is "skilled" before she enters her 1,600 hour beauty academy because she has dyed her hair a few times. It does not ake a FF "skilled".— April 7, 2008 8:19 a.m.
California Is in Such a Financial Quagmire That There Could Be Municipal Bankruptcies
#64. As you well know, Vallejo is less than 1/10th the size of SD. The median income is also 25% higher there. ($56K/year vs $47K/year) And I'm sure you know that the sole reason those folks in the PD and FD made so much was that large numbers of employees left so those remaining worked OT to cover the city. ======== And your point is what???? FF pay is not determined by the "median income" of a city. It should be determined by SUPPLY and DEMAND, like every job in the private sector. And face it, there are 1,000 applicants for every one open FF position. Even Colonel Sanders stated that fact when DENYING FF a pay increase. Do you think McDonalds determines pay for their workers by median income for various cities??? Of course not.— April 7, 2008 8:14 a.m.
California Is in Such a Financial Quagmire That There Could Be Municipal Bankruptcies
Johnny, You might point out that your list is from the city of Vallejo, NOT the city of San Diego. You might also point out that only one SDFD employee made over $200K in 2006. ======== Wrong JF, as usual. You left out the cost of benefit compensation which is about 100% the value of entry level FF's and about 75% the value of FF's tapped out on the pay.— April 7, 2008 8:09 a.m.
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Richard La China, are you reading these messages? Best, Don Bauder By dbauder 1:45 p.m., Apr 5, 2008 ========== If he is he might make accident in pants after #53.....lol.— April 5, 2008 1:56 p.m.
California Is in Such a Financial Quagmire That There Could Be Municipal Bankruptcies
And you'll have a huge retention and hiring problem. By JF 9:55 p.m., Apr 4, 2008 ==== Yep JF, we will have a huge retention problem on my BALANCED BUDGET plan, in fact I am sure that the angry FF's who would not sacrifice a little bit for the good of the City will be heading straight up to Vallejo for those really BIG pay check scams....lol. For you JF; 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— April 5, 2008 1:47 p.m.
Another La Jolla Ponzi Scheme: This One Engineered by an Attorney Now Headed to Prison
It may be a waste for him but it's a net plus for society. Would you want him practicing law again? By dbauder 8:59 p.m., Apr 4, 2008 ========= I agree, the guy caused a lot of damage and does not deserve to be a laywer ever again. I just feel sad when I see people, people who have made something out of themselfs, make such bad choices. But he made his bed, now he must sleep in it.— April 5, 2008 1:39 p.m.