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French Gourmet Heads Get Probation, Fines
U.S. citizens, including many of Mexican descent, do not want to work hard or get dirty. == I absolutely disagree with this. 100%. US Citizens are not afraid of hard work not gettign dirty. You are selling out your fellow countrymen too fast and easy Twister.— December 23, 2011 9:57 a.m.
Estancia Hotel Warns It Could Lay Off 295
Wow, I didn't even notice they finished this place! Back in 1988 the Ritz Carlton had started building a 300 rooom Ritz and then the recession hit and they stopped. Sat empty for 15 years at least.— December 22, 2011 11:13 p.m.
San Diego Convention Center liars
Yes, today it is different, but during the Studio Mogul days in the 30's - 50's all the money decisions came out of NYC.— December 22, 2011 11:01 p.m.
Failure to Extend Payroll Tax Break, Jobless Pay Could Hurt, Says Economist
Those men and women were just making smart choices. Now to bemoan the fact that they get those benefits...well again look at the distribution of wealth in our country. Nobody working as a prison guard is flying first class. == You are either ignorant or an out right liar. Prison guards in CA are comping over $200K per year before OT is factored in, with OT is $250K+, that is in the top 1% in the nation...... the 1% as OWS calls it and that is "flying first class" in every sense of the phrase. There is NO NEED to pay that kind of money for a rank and file GED level job. A job that had 125K applicants for 940 job openings in 2010-that is over 1,250 applicants per opening. That proves gov employment is a fantasyland where there are no free market principles guiding the employment, resulting in that kind of gross incompetence. That job should have a base comp of $75K max-65% less than it does now. / / But American Businesses sold them out. Meanwhile the CEO's, Politicians and lobbyists rake in the real dough. == You have no argument from me, I think Wall Street and Big Business have destroyed this county. / / The fact that a prison guard makes as much as a doctor is more a product of the changing reality of our culture and the avarice our education system. == Totally false. The ONLY reason a prison guard makes as much as a medical doctor in CA with 10 years of higher education, half a million in student loan debt and a far shorter career span has nothing to do with our education system and everything to do with a closed gov monopoly, and HUGE quid pro quo pay offs to Gray Davis and other politicians, who are spending other peoples money to get their campaign contributions from the CCPOA while raising their pay and comp at 5-10 times the rate of inflation. Has noting to do with free markets and everything to do with closed markets and a monopoly? In the real world these low skill set gov jobs would pay $25K per year. Which is what prison guard jobs USED to pay in CA just 10 years ago. CA public employees are being comped at TWICE the rate of the private sector, with bullet proof job security, which makes their gov jobs worth an additional 40% in value. In the case of prison guards, cops and FF's they are being comped at 10-20 times what their skill set would bring in the private sector. BTW-gov jobs are in nearly all cases fixed. Cronyism and nepotism runs rampant in these jobs, as does incompetence. Alan Bersin is Exhibit #1.— December 22, 2011 10:58 p.m.
Failure to Extend Payroll Tax Break, Jobless Pay Could Hurt, Says Economist
Blaming American workers for gravitating toward Civil Service and Government jobs that had security and benefits during an era when American companies were slashing their payrolls is ludicrous. == I don't know if I blame the workers, except to the extent that are not in an open or free marlet and as such their compensation is not indicative of their value-allowing public employees to be compensation 20 times mroe than they would in the real world-and that is not ludicrous at all. BUT-I do blame public unions and colluding politicans for being totally irresponsible with the publics money to the point of basically destroying the economy of this state in quid pro quo fraud. / /— December 22, 2011 10:54 p.m.
San Diego Convention Center liars
One thing I never knew was that while the production of movies has been Hollywood since the turn of the century-ALL the money decisions were made in New York. The studio heads ran the studios, but the purse strings were pulled by the ones who oversaw the studio heads and they were in NYC.— December 22, 2011 8:47 p.m.
French Gourmet Heads Get Probation, Fines
4.At that time, the illegals were doing work Americans wouldn't do. == Baloeny, there is NO job in America that Americans won't do, this si the land of the free and opportunity. If you want Americans to do a job you need to pay the market wage-the ONLY reasons illegals are getting work is b/c the employers won't pay a market wage. Exploiting illegals and Americans.— December 22, 2011 8:42 p.m.
Three More Arrested at Occupy San Diego
After watchigng this video this is exaclty why THERE SHOULD be a college degree requried for thes GED cop jobs, these dork cops have the brain power of a rock. The Stoopidvisors should eb fired.— December 22, 2011 8:40 p.m.
Three More Arrested at Occupy San Diego
We will have violent protests, and it is not going to take much to set it off, as in Rodney King type violence. I said this a few months back, we are reaching a tipping point.— December 22, 2011 8:35 p.m.
French Gourmet Heads Get Probation, Fines
In a larger sense, why was this business selected for such enforcement, when there are many, many, many more in the county who do the same thing and never get even noticed? Makes ya' wondah, doesn't it? If it doesn't, it should. == Well, at least they caught two law breakers, which is two more than the number of convictions of Wall Street scammers who have basically caused a global meltdown of the entire planet.— December 22, 2011 8:34 p.m.