Faulconer brings visual aids to White House meeting with President Trump

Coda to rant above: Isn't it telling that the progressive left has colluded with the Trump Administration to forcefully direct the suspension of established law and precedent, overriding federal, state and local rules in regards to the environment, property rights, zoning, permitting etc. by executive fiat. The California Progressive alliance with big business, developers and Wall Street is no longer even attempting to hide their agenda. They have tried at both the local level and state level to force their pro-developer agenda down the throats of the citizens and have been rebuffed. Dispensing with established zoning such as minimal parking requirements, building heights and building density and forcing their way into established neighborhoods and onto public lands (like transit parking lots, public parks, school lands, old stadium/sports arena sites, community college property), has been their goal and now the Republicans are colluding and doing their dirty work for them. Hiding behind climate change and GHG's as their *raison d'être* for the mass take over of every aspect of public and private life is the ingenious propaganda of the authoritarian megalomaniacs. What a bunch of control freaks who just want to be the bossy, in charge, queen bee's. What's so alarming is they are being allowed to get away with it to everyone else's detriment. We'll still be here 12 years from now but the damage from the progressive agenda will be permanent. The local Progressives know their agenda is a losing proposition among a growing number of the fed-up populace who are paying ever more for less and less in return. The citizens eventually catch onto the tricks and lies and will respond in kind. The Progressives will then blame Trump. Ha! CA Progressives + Trump: that's the 2020 ticket!
— June 30, 2019 7:10 p.m.

Faulconer brings visual aids to White House meeting with President Trump

(cont.) - List item Eternal vigilance against tyranny is the price of liberty! Educate yourselves, the academy is corrupt and tells you lies. The media is corrupt and tells you lies. The government is corrupt and tells you lies. The old timers who warned you will be long gone. Private property, personal savings and sound money will be long gone. Liberty and freedom will be long gone. The government will own, control and administer everything. It's your world now. It's all on you. Good Luck. - List item *Thanks to the Reader* for allowing public comment. At least this media outlet is engaged with the citizens. Unlike the local Pravda, KPBS, with their new logo, an empty thought bubble or is that an empty comment bubble? Whatever. Or the outlets that demand you either pay a subscription to comment or that you use the Stasi app Facebook.
— June 29, 2019 9:11 p.m.

Faulconer brings visual aids to White House meeting with President Trump

What was supposed to be temporary federal Quantitative Easing (QE) programs has recently been made permanent by the Fed's monetizing of this debt. The induced inflation (watch gold prices erupt) and currency devaluation is coming soon enough so medical, education, transportation, food, taxes, and yes, housing costs are all going to skyrocket much faster than any wages and/or salaries. The developers/bankers want to move quickly while their costs (labor/materials/financing) are low, and then sell to suckers at inflated prices while paying back their loans with a depreciated currency. Pretty slick. All while virtue signaling their laughable altruistic concern and do-gooder bona-fides. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. This has plenty to do with Democrats and Republicans but mostly has everything to do with the haves and the have nots. The global and domestic political elites and their puppet-masters are all part of the same political kleptocracy working against the local, everyday citizens, no matter what their stripe. We keep voting them in, as there is no other choice when they play both sides! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. Don't hold your breath. Block programs with cutesy tiny houses or pre-permitted granny flats, forced up-zoning of long established neighborhoods with under-utilized transit rationalizations or the ubiquitous Specific Plan designation, forced integration of mixed incomes, picking winners and losers with subsidized housing for the likes of fireman, police, teachers, nurses, doctors, construction workers (all union members who are doing very well already on the taxpayer dime, thank-you very much) over hard working, barely making it, private earners, and the goal of the integration of cultures (except of course American culture and language), have long been the purview of the authoritarian globalist, socialist, Democrats. It is now the stated goal of HUD and the Trump administration. We're all Socialists now. Millennial's, Generation-Z, minorities, low-income and everyday folks should pay close attention to all this. You're being led around like zombies to be enslaved in the gulags of the new authoritarian overlords (read: wealthy, establishment Democrats and now Trump) while you have your pockets picked. It's on you to be responsible for yourselves, to understand the chicanery, deceit and outright manipulative lies of your ideologue leaders (both left and right) and the terrible outcomes you will inherit.
— June 29, 2019 9:07 p.m.

Faulconer brings visual aids to White House meeting with President Trump

(cont.) Billion$ divvied up by CA lawmakers to address housing and homeless.(https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/20… Toni Atkins partner Jennifer LeSar making out in spades. (https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-toni-a…) The LGBT+ mafia steering big bucks their own way and to their developer overlords as they consolidate power in Sacramento and locally via political musical chairs. (With help from local PR firms masquerading as 'think tanks', internet 'influencers', SJW activist calling themselves journalists and other such upstanding citizenry.) In order for the U.S. Treasury to recoup the value of the housing stock on it's books (and Wall Street to make outsized profits), the prices must be held artificially high. No true price discovery and/or market clearing and an artificial stimulus for another building boom that's not market driven nor needed, all the while excluding what was once a middle class, now relegated to low income status by the miracle of monetary policy and financialization. This is a corrupt taking of local land use rights (zoning/environmental), a betrayal of self-determination, a betrayal of the 'old greens' (Democrats that promoted the many regulations now indicted as troublesome to development) and ultimately a road to serfdom with a guaranteed major bust after the stimulated boom. The damage will be permanently done; greater crowding, more traffic, more pollution, more noise, a degraded environment and destruction of the cultural character of long established neighborhoods. Trump will be gone by then, back into his developer tycoon habitat. He doesn't care, and neither do the California Social Democrats and their ilk. The Wall Street/Banker crowd got loads of money (~$5T) directly from taxpayers and then bought up property on the cheap in 2009-2012. No local homeowners were saved; they were all foreclosed upon and evicted (many now homeless). The Wall Street crowd invented AirBnB and the "short term vacation rentals" to collect both rents and tax-benefits, tying up housing stock that often sits empty, and thus keeping the normal folks effectively out of housing due to cost constraints, loan scarcity and an artificial supply scarcity. Loads of foreign investors (buyers/bankers) are benefiting from this scheme as well, on the backs of the American and local taxpayers and savers, and the American families looking for homes. What a racket.
— June 29, 2019 9:05 p.m.

Faulconer brings visual aids to White House meeting with President Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfczBYb9QEA Ben Carson on Trump's executive order tackling costly housing regulations Fake News from Trump's man at HUD and the boot-licking, sycophantic MSM (Yes, that means you Fox News). You see this a lot in California. RINO's defecting like Vichy cowards in WWII, and then supporting, with outright lies, such muddleheaded programs, all while being feted by the complicit, activist minions (calling themselves journalists) in the media. Maybe San Diego's RINO Mayor Faulconer said something in his short meeting with Trump that aroused the developer/banker in the president. Now this is a New $Green Deal! Taxpayer subsidized, private development. The public/private partnership that socializes costs/losses onto the taxpayer and privatizes profits to the developers while bulldozing and rolling over long term self-governance. It all starts in California; boom and bust, boom and bust. Wash, rinse, repeat. Also, the eradication of any meaningful Republican Party or loyal opposition. Boom. Gone. (Why was this not covered in the media locally? Hmmm.) The sneering, smearing, dismissal of dissenting, oppositional voices/opinions with the epitaph of NIMBY (the new 'N' word) is the hateful, bigoted, exclusionary bullying by the well funded, politically powerful, tyrannically authoritarian, Democratic YIMBY/RINO 'FIRE' (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) lobby. What a nice 4th of July gift Mr President! A pogrom against the everyday, hard working, tax-paying citizen. The contradictions in this thinking are jarring. Let in millions of low skilled, alien migrants and refugees from costly wars we initiated, which displace poor Americans from the tax-supported social safety nets (jobs, housing, medical, education) and then claim there's a housing shortage. There was no housing shortage during the Obama administration just three years ago. In fact, there were images on the front page of the Wall Street Journal showing NEW homes in California being bulldozed. The only way to absorb the surplus housing stock was to pay Wall Street hedge funds, with taxpayer money, to buy them up on the cheap. The free flow of dollar printing and artificially low interest rates, coupled with past easy qualifying for federal loans (Freddie/Fanny) under the Democrats (Clinton, Frank, Dodd, Obama and others) has done it's intended work of profits to the bankers, losses to the public. Re-inflating the already overpriced housing market from 2007 just repeated the transfer of wealth from the poor to the elites. Similar to pay-day loan schemes. Governments at all levels make out on this from higher net property tax revenue. California is swimming in tax surpluses and yet can't cover the costs of pensions, education, health, infrastructure (like water storage, waste/border sewerage and Point Loma treatment facility, parks, etc.) or transportation issues (high-speed rail anyone?) Water projects delayed by strong-arm labor tactics. Yada, yada, yada.
— June 29, 2019 9 p.m.

SDSU profs fight cuts to humanities

"A unifying motive for such reform has been a conclusion that GE programs have stagnated while the diversity of students, education, workplace skills and needs, and technology have, by sharp contrast, changed dramatically.” This conclusion is pure rot. It was probably from a task force committee made up of egalitarian 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' grifters. The additional requirements of this new social engineering indoctrination is doing so much harm to the more traditional, classical-liberal education that has for years succeeded very well. For way too many students, rather than being taught how to think, they are being taught what to think. That is just plain wrong. Leave the GE requirements as they are. Get rid of the social indoctrination of the 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' crowd, raise and enforce standards to reduce the number of unqualified students (and thus higher student loan burdens, attenuated times to degree completion, and low persistence rates.) The educational system for many has become not only costly, dysfunctional, bloated and fat, but also ideological and dangerous. It's time to get lean and mean! LINK: 2/3 of College Graduates Don't Know This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st453zpLog8
— April 18, 2019 1:08 a.m.

SDSU profs fight cuts to humanities

When a college diploma becomes essentially a 'participation trophy' for half the graduates, there is going to be backlash from the taxpayers and the society who fund this nonsense and expect much more. There are exceptional students doing rigorous study and training who benefit and enjoy the required courses that help to develop civic skills and institutional knowledge that rounds out their college experience. It is patently unfair to allow their hard work and exceptional performance to be denigrated by the underperformance of secondary and tertiary students in the name of equity. What's required is the reinstatement of high standards for admissions and course completion. If you don't make the cut, too bad. As to the question by Prof Wiese; why fiddle with a system which is “well designed, integrated across campuses, and demonstrably successful”? He's exactly correct. Incremental refinement has been hard earned over a long time and across many campuses. There seems to be a desire for instant gratification as regards to “mounting concerns about the erosion of confidence in the value of higher education, higher costs of education borne increasingly by students, attenuated times to degree completion, and low persistence rates…." The desire to implement whole sale change quickly is the dangerous and hubristic thinking of those that insist on great leaps forward rather than continuous incremental refinement. Claiming some sort of expertise and special knowledge, the currently in-vogue, large scale change crowd loves to destroy what took many years, much effort and loads of money to erect. (All while hidden from view and without any transparency on their long march through the academy. If you think the Columbia University Department of Education is bad, check out the Harvard University Department of Education or so many other 'elite' enclaves. Total rot, naval gazing and dangerous neo-marxist authoritarianism.) Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. The erosion of confidence in the value of higher education is the result of insisting that everyone should go to college as well as the far left, socialist indoctrination of the youth. It is in the self-interest of the industrial educational complex that as many widgets be processed as possible when reimbursement is by the number of seats in a classroom filled. Whether through state funding or student loans, the more students the more profit and the more students the more indoctrinated useful idiots. This of course leads to unqualified students being advanced, dumbing down of rigorous course work, and ridiculous majors in snow-flake studies. There is a place for community colleges, continuing education, certificate training and vocational training that greatly benefits many citizens. That's where the emphasis should be placed. (cont below)
— April 18, 2019 1:07 a.m.

Uber/Lyft staging area closed at airport

Another example of the changes occurring at the SAN airport impacting the local communities. With no warning, planning or consultation of the surrounding communities, the authorities at the airport have impacted Point Loma, Little Italy, downtown and other close-by facilities like the public parks, surface streets and business parking lots with rideshare staging. There is no compensation to the general public, residents and businesses for hassles created by additional traffic, congestion, noise, pollution and diminished Quality of Life. The claim of rideshare as being an alternative transportation solution to the problems of growth and climate change are reveled to be the smoke and mirror deceit of the elites getting their way on the backs of the local communities. SANDAG, SAN and the Port of San Diego refuse to take responsibility fully for their expansion programs, foisting related costs onto surrounding residents, businesses and of course, the taxpayer. These people can only 'discuss' possible solutions for meaningful public transit to the airport. They're still stuck on their People Mover and Grand Central terminal along Pacific Highway that was proposed years ago. An eight year old with a box of Lego's from XMAS could design a functional, utilitarian system in an hour. The same deceit will be used in conjunction with bus and trolley service (highly subsidized and low ridership), self-driving vehicles and other marginal transportation 'solutions' to justify massive housing density and numbers (with parking forgiveness) to be foisted onto neighborhoods through fiat. The resulting massive increase in private vehicles with no accommodating private parking will burden the local public streets as the only parking solution available, not to mention the additional substantial traffic, noise and literally massive additional CO2 (measured in hundreds of thousands of tons). The kicker here will be the Billion$ of public financing used to enrich the developers and grease the political gears all the while claiming to have "got the whole region talking about transit to the airport." Wolves (developers, bankers and politicians) in sheep's clothing (transportation, housing and environmental advocates). Matthew 7:15
— January 7, 2019 6:43 p.m.