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McCains Have Eight to Eleven Homes -- Two in Coronado, One in La Jolla, Says Blog
also a big influencal democrate from Pennsylvania filed a lawsuite against Obama THursdasy with evidence he was not born in the U.S and cannot be president. =========================== LOL! Come on.— August 23, 2008 5:50 p.m.
UCSD Tied for 35th in U.S. News's Annual Ranking of Universities
Thanks Don. Beleive it or not, in-state tuition for undergrad at SDSU in the early 80's was $150 a semester. Graduate school at SDSU in the early 90's was $300 a semester. Shows how out of control school tuition is. I think a very large part of that increase is the funding that used to go to schools is now going to the pay and pensions of state employees. Same with the gas tax. These dedicated taxes (or supposedly dedicated) are being raided every year to cover the general fund shortfalls. Caused in no small part by the scam pay scales and pensions.— August 23, 2008 5:46 p.m.
McCains Have Eight to Eleven Homes -- Two in Coronado, One in La Jolla, Says Blog
you forgot to mention that barack and wife made $4 million last year and they own a mansion worth millions in chicago ==================== Yeah, but his income was under 1 million the year before. Their 2006 income of $991,296 included Obama's salary of $157,082 and his wife's administrator's pay of $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals and $51,200 in director fees from a food distributor, TreeHouse Inc. // BTW-dont believe everything you read on a right wing mud slinging website; http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/08/obamas-mansion-…— August 22, 2008 9:53 p.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
All of the approximately 8,000 cards from the maritime industry went directly into the final drawing, while the cards from the public went through two drawings. ====================== Even using your numbers-ALL 8000 INSIDER applications went into a lottery where 3000 jobs were picked from 16000, so INSIDERS had a 50% chance of being hired-so 50% of the jobs would go to INSIDERS-, now compare that to the 500K who were OUTSIDERS-I already did the math earlier it was 667 to 1....Hmmm........starting to sound like a Government hiring process to me. It was fixed, just like government jobs are fixed.— August 22, 2008 6:10 p.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
The 750 "insider" jobs you refer to is also incorrect. The 3000 applicants chosen were culled from 2 "lottery" drawings. The lotteries included well over 300,000 postcards from the public and as many as 8,000 ``industry recommendation''cards(the pre-addressed ``industry recommendation'' cards were mailed to union members and shipping officials several days in advance of newspaper ads detailing the hiring process to the general public). ==================== Once again Tressles does his "googling" searches and comes up with the wrong answer. Why am I not surprised??? There were 1,500 jobs at Long Beach, there were OVER 500K applicants. They picked 750 from the 500K open applicants and picked another 750 FROM INSIDERS. That is a fact. I will have to go find the info for you, but unlike you I am not going to spend 4 hours on Google to prove you are once again wrong.— August 22, 2008 6:05 p.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
Johnny, I'll try this slowly. Retirement and benefits are different for each municipality. Each union or association negotiates their own benefit package. ================ And JF, I will try to keep this just as simple for you. The 3%@50 is the same everywhere-there is NO DIFFERENCE. That pension, as stated above, costs 70% of base pay to fund. So that alone is the biggest factor in a benefit package for those that have it. Nothing else even comes close.— August 22, 2008 5:58 p.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
It seems OT is a cheaper alternative than a than hiring more people, as long as understaffing doesn't creat safety issues. ========================== 1) No gov entity (as in taxpayers) can afford to pay $200K for blue collar jobs. 2) As long as benefits cost as much (and more) than base pay it is cheaper to pay OT-and also a sure fire way to go into BK. The 3%@50 pension scam, pension alone & nothing else, costs 70% of base pay. Add in the other "benefits" and it totals base pay.— August 22, 2008 5:56 p.m.
UCSD Tied for 35th in U.S. News's Annual Ranking of Universities
Where is my alma mater SDSU listed???— August 22, 2008 4:18 p.m.
McCains Have Eight to Eleven Homes -- Two in Coronado, One in La Jolla, Says Blog
Cindy has the income-but it is "trust funder" income. She is still pretty hot though, even at 54. I wonder why she married McCain, who was an old man when they met???? As for President, I am votong for Obama. Having said that, I don't really care who gets elected, because I think both can/will do a hell of a lot better than that idiot moron we have in there now.— August 22, 2008 12:54 p.m.
Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife Not Interested in Buying U-T
If it is a FALSE rumor then it is a truth??????— August 21, 2008 8:21 p.m.