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Does Your Broker Claim the Real Estate Devastation Is Almost Over? Statistics Say It May Be Half Over
You are 100% right Don, unions in the private sector can no longer command the power they did 30 years ago. California has 2.5 million union workers, but only 1 million are in the private sector, the other 1.5 million are public employees. A very interesting number was published yesterday, the United Auto Workers union membership dropped to 469,000, the first time it has gone under half a million in decades. The interesting part to me was that as recently as 1979 the UAW had 1.5 million members/workers. CA has MORE than 3 times as many members in public unions than the UAW. Thats is pretty amazing to me.— April 1, 2008 4:49 p.m.
Does Your Broker Claim the Real Estate Devastation Is Almost Over? Statistics Say It May Be Half Over
FYI, I was a lifelong Republican until I changed parties in 2004. By dbauder 2:26 p.m., Mar 31, 2008 ========= That's funny, I was a life long Democrat (my fellow real estate brokers hated me!) until I went Independant with Lou Dobbs suggestion, smartest move I EVER MADE! Republicans are all about "free markets"..errr...well until Bear Sterns or a S&L meltdown come around, then it is SOCIALIZED LAIBILITY/RISK..LOL! The Democrats today are nothing more than Mouth Pieces bought and paid for by the public employee unions-at least at the state level. Republicans are Mouth Pieces bought and paid for by Big Business. Until one of these loser parties gets their act together and works for the AVERAGE AMERICAN I am staying Independant.— April 1, 2008 12:09 p.m.
Does Your Broker Claim the Real Estate Devastation Is Almost Over? Statistics Say It May Be Half Over
At this point let's hope that's all there is, now we have to worry about Treasury's printing machines that are generating the inflation you have been warning about. By Anon92107 3:48 a.m., Mar 30, 2008 > Report it ==== Response to post #3: Yes, we have to be concerned about the Fed's money-printing machine. By dbauder 7:43 a.m., Mar 30, 2008 > Report it ===== The dollar is backed by nothing but the "full faith and credit" of the US government today-I for one would not trust Bushie or anyone in his administration for even one second. Remember this one, "The war will pay for itself once the OIL starts flowing"......this war was estimated at $60 BILLION by Bushie before it started, now it is estimated at $3 TRILLION. Now why on earth would anyone trust a person that made those statements????????— March 30, 2008 10:01 a.m.
Does Your Broker Claim the Real Estate Devastation Is Almost Over? Statistics Say It May Be Half Over
In 92 we said the real estate depression would be over in 93/94. In 94 we said stay alive until 95. In 96 we said 97. It was not until 1999 that things turned, and THIS is MUCH WORSE than 90-98. Half over-we are not even 25% over.— March 29, 2008 8:48 p.m.
Award-winner milks Big Bear resort
La China better be hiding out off shore, beyond the reach of the law-because it sounds like he is going to be visiting the Gray Bar hotel very soon.— March 26, 2008 12:36 p.m.
Ten Trillion Reasons Why Federal Reserve May Have Bailed Out Bear Stearns
Highly-leverage securities and derivatives should be outlawed- any that remain should be heavily regulated. It is a leverage game, and with heavy leverage comes great rewards, and great downside as well. Leverage is a two way street-if you want to reap the rewards then you must be able to pay the piper when the curtain falls. That is not happening. Just like the mortgage meltdown, private profits for the ones engagaing in the scams/flipping, but when these scams go sideways then it is socialized liability and taxpayers pick up the Bear Stern bills. The Fed should just clamp down and put a stop to it. It puts the entire country at risk for liability/meltdown, for the benefit of the few.— March 26, 2008 12:31 p.m.
Jenny Craig Sent Out Tainted Meat from Chino Slaughterhouse, but Notification Inadequate
I got the blog post and article mixed up. I have the article saved on my hard drive, and used to have the link to the webpage saved with it (for when I post it), but somehow the link was erased. I googled the title; "Government Employees Pull Far Ahead of Private Sector Employees in Pay, Fringes" + Google = webpage! Thanks, this article ALWAYS come in handy when I have gov. employees claim they are paid less than their private sector counterparts.— March 24, 2008 8:21 a.m.
Jenny Craig Sent Out Tainted Meat from Chino Slaughterhouse, but Notification Inadequate
Found it, thru a google search. There is an archives section, problem is you cannot get to it from your blog. Thanks. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/financial-c… Government Employees Pull Far Ahead of Private Sector Employees in Pay, Fringes By Don Bauder | Posted February 4, 2008 http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/financial-c…— March 23, 2008 9:11 p.m.
Jenny Craig Sent Out Tainted Meat from Chino Slaughterhouse, but Notification Inadequate
Don. Your February 4, 2008 story on government pay has fallen off the web page-and I cannot find an archives section. How de we look up your past articles that are no longer on the Scam Diego web page??? You used to have an archive link.— March 23, 2008 9:37 a.m.
Jenny Craig Sent Out Tainted Meat from Chino Slaughterhouse, but Notification Inadequate
"Since it was a relatively small number to begin with, we made a conscious decision not to alarm the vast majority of our clients by calling or emailing them. Rather we elected to post a client service announcement in an acrylic holder at the front desk of each centre." ___________________________________________- When a jury sees a cost/benefit risk analysis that puts a low priority on human life and a high priority on profit- they tend to award very large verdicts. Ford Motor Company found this lesson out the hard way-and if anyone gets sick off of Jenny Craig meatloaf then Jenny will also be finding this lesson out the hard way.— March 22, 2008 10:09 p.m.