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Qualcomm Reports Great Earnings, Helps Lift Market
It's a good example of corporate welfare going to a fortune 500 wireless monopoly and paid for off the backs of American workers. ===== Most people IMO are aware of this, and the only ones claimign otherwise of the CEO's of these tech companies-liek Bill Gates. It is going to destroy the country-as we are now seeing. There should not be a SINGLE H-1B visa issued until our U-6 Unemployment Rate is below 6%.— April 27, 2011 8:31 a.m.
$1 Million Targeted for Homeless Will Be Diverted to L.A. Football Stadium
The greed of the Pro sports owners-not th efans or players- is destroying the game, the local communities that have the teams, the fan base. Al Davis did that to the Raiders, and it is happening on a smaller scale all across the different leagues/teams/sports.— April 27, 2011 8:29 a.m.
Things
Hehehehehe...— April 27, 2011 8:26 a.m.
Main Street media snarls at Rancho Santa Fe News,
I've seen how bullying, the sort that had little or no legal basis, can get non-confrontational people to back down. The prospect of paying megabucks to some attorney to defend you can surely be discouraging. ============== If you're a business owner and someone is trying to stick their hand in your pocket you better learn to be confrontational or you will not be a business owner for very long.— April 26, 2011 6:31 p.m.
Main Street media snarls at Rancho Santa Fe News,
Although Kydd and Hoisington consider Allegretti’s letters just another attempt to corner the community-newspaper market in San Diego County, both fear that he will stop at nothing to achieve his goal. -- We are the real local community newspapers. We’ve raised our children in the community, and we run our business here. But my concern is that they are a corporation with investors and money in the bank. I don’t have deep pockets to go through some lawsuit. I am concerned that I might have to play the legal game.” ================== Allegretti is an idiot if he thinks ANYONE is going to fall for his sham attempt at a shakedown. And since he has a subscription to Lexis-Nexis he needs to look up California's Anti-SLAPP codes-CCP 425.16, because I have a strong feeling he may be violating it.— April 26, 2011 6:09 p.m.
Car Thief Leaves His Wallet Behind
Cool TUNE!! Twistin Tarantulas: "You Must Be Sniffin' Glue..." . http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://theref… .— April 26, 2011 5:57 p.m.
Qualcomm Reports Great Earnings, Helps Lift Market
Frankly, I don't think anybody is worth $17.6 million a year, ============= The ONLY reason they get this much is because the Board is stacked with other CEO's and they all play the game of leap frog to line their own pockets. And they all say the same thing, they "need to pay" these comp packages to be "competitive", it is the exact same line the public unions use to artificially inflate their compensation.— April 26, 2011 5:50 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
They're not in trouble, they're in BIG TROUBLE!!!!— April 26, 2011 1:41 p.m.
Case-Shiller Home Data Dismal -- Even in San Diego
Hypothetically, Don, how would I make a bet (oh, right, "invest") that the prices go down to 2002 levels and lower (adjusted for inflation) based on the theory that since wages haven't increased since even before then, housing prices must return to the historic relationship with income. ===================== They will drop even further than that. Even though wages have been stagnant for the last 11 years; 1) there are far less jobs today than in 2002, and 2) there are still 1.8 million homes that are in the REO process. So-believe me, it will get worse before it gets better.— April 26, 2011 12:11 p.m.
Fire Department Compensation Far Higher than Private Sector's: Study
The bottom line is it is investment returns that pay pensions, long term 30, 40 year returns combined with contributions. ================= Investment returns paid a good portion in the bubble, but you take the bubble out of it and pension payments are more evenly split between contributions and ROI. But the base comes mainly from taxpayer dollars unless the contributions are equal, which they are not. That blue ribbon pension report that was put out in 2004-the CEO of NASCO was one of the authors, wrote extensively about the muni "pick up", and I think he wrote that the majority of San Diego City employees had their side picked up by the muni.— April 25, 2011 12:56 p.m.