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Why Was Toni Atkins Consulting for Developers Vying for Redevelopment Dollars After She Was Elected to State Assembly?
I have to laugh at gov's "affordable housing" scams. I remember back in the mid 1990's when private developers were buying REO apartments for $10K-$20K per unit, and rehabing them with $5K-$15K per unit. Total costs per unit= $15K-$35K, while the City and County were paying private developers $150K+ per unit of "affordable housing". Those Little Italy Scammers Barone-Galasso pulled a lot of those rip offs back then. I have seen gov mismange money and projects so many times, far more than the few tiems they got it right, that I just don't think gov should do ANYTHING but deliever the most basic of services and contract everything else out.— February 10, 2011 9:31 a.m.
California State Bar Rejects Charges Against Mike Aguirre
I know a lot of people don't like those cushy pensions that the muni folks got, but I just love seeing the "working class" get some cake for a change === Public trough feeders are no more "working class' than Wall Street investment bankers are. And they are getting their "cake" by ripping off the poor. That is not honorable in my book.— February 10, 2011 9:23 a.m.
California State Bar Rejects Charges Against Mike Aguirre
JW, face it, Mike was David facing down Goliath and we ALL now know he was right, and that does make him a hero to many. Mike IS a hero to many, many people in San Diego and other places for standing up to gov abuses no matter what the cost. That to me is the definition of a true hero. Anyone can tuck tail and run down the easy path of no resistance, the one who stands against all odds and takes the most difficult path in the face of massive opposition is the guy I will get behind 100% of the time.— February 10, 2011 9:11 a.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
LOL..this coming from a Bridgepopint/Ashford flunky-classic!— February 10, 2011 9:06 a.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
Internet Explorer does nto have spell check, and if I have some/many typos i dont care. I am nto writing a term paper or SCOTUS legal brief. (typos included for irony!)— February 10, 2011 9:04 a.m.
California State Bar Rejects Charges Against Mike Aguirre
I doubt that SurfPup gets his news from the UT and Fox. I would like to hear SurfPup's rebuttal. =============== When I read the UT more than a decade ago, it was for local news and Don Bauder. I have not read the UT-even online-for more than 3 years. I used to take the LA Times over the UT when they had their local office here back before they closed in it 1988 (??). I do not watch Fox or any other TV except for two shows, Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC and Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano on Fox Business News. Hardly wingnut programs. My response to javajoe is above, I let him and his public union talking poitns have it.— February 10, 2011 9:03 a.m.
California State Bar Rejects Charges Against Mike Aguirre
Like I said in my earlier note to Don B., the deal here should not be to see how fast we can all go down in income and see benefits and pensions shrink, or just stand around dumbfounded over how our 401K's lost 60% of their value while them folks who said it was a good idea walk away with 7-figure parachutes and bonuses even when their company loses money ========== No the DEAL should be to make public union monopolies, which should be busted- conform more to the FREE MARKET, a concept you don't understand and want to tax the many, the poor and small middle class, so the FEW trough feeding public employees with GED's can retire at age 50 with mutli million dollar pensions-on OUR backs. No thanks. Take your propaganda, which is all it is, to an SEIU beach party where it may go over better. The public is onto the public union scams, where public misc. employees are getting pensions in their 50's that are 3-4 TIMES the actual wages of the AVERAGE working person in this state. . . . You are defending the very people who will not even bat an eyelash when you lose everything you've got. ============ Again, you don't read these blogs, I have never defended Wall Street or the current public unions, they are both scamming dirtbags. The problem for trough feeders like you is the word is out about your scams. Too bad, you will need to learn to deal with it.— February 10, 2011 8:57 a.m.
California State Bar Rejects Charges Against Mike Aguirre
And when you refer to the "poor and middle class," do your realize they might not be so poor is they were unionized and could demand pay and benefits more in line with what the executives get. ============= Do you mean like GM, or Chrysler, or American Airlines???? Yes, the unions there did WONDERS for their membership. Public sector unions are a cancer destroying what is left of the middle class. They should be BUSTED under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. . . What I don't understand is why you rant and rave about the poor and working class who have to pay the taxes but you don't seem able to put two and two together and realize that it is the poor and working class who are getting screwed in a much larger way than what they would be paying in taxes. ============== Yes, the poor and middle class are getting screwed - on two ends- from trough feeding public employees and trough feeding Wall Street. Thank you for stating that Captain Obvious. . . . How does anyone maintain an income high enough to be able to afford the cost of living here in SD, if what was once a good paying job has been taken over by low-ball contractors who lay them off and offer to rehire them at half the pay, if they offer to hire them at all? ================ Not by comping GED gov trough feeders $200K per year on the backs of everyone else, that is for SURE! What you have described is what this country was built on, a free market system, if you do not like it, like I said before, move to North Korea where you can become a commie and have your job protected. . . . .. You get suckered in by what you read in the UT and hear on Fox News and then you go and vote for some slick ex-cop who could care less about you and yours. He and his crew are going to sell you a new stadium, jack up your seasonal ticket price, double what you pay for a hot dog and a beer, and let your streets and bridges crumble right before your eyes. =================== You have no clue as to what I watch or what I hear, you are just the typical gov trough feeder trying to stick his fat little greedy fingers in everyone else's pocket so you can live in luxury off the backs of the poor and middle class. I never voted for KFC Sanders-and if your GED brain ever read these blogs you would know that. I have been rallying against the stadium and other corp giveaways since before Don started to back in 1996, but again, your little brain is so far up your propaganda butt you don't know that. You are a thief and a scammer, nothing more. . . .— February 10, 2011 8:57 a.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
There is NO difference between Dems and Repugs, two different sides of the same coin. They are both bought and paid for with speical interest money. There are 40K Plus lobbyists on Capitol Hill, yet only 535 in the Congress. 40% of the bills submitted in the Congress, and 60% of the bills passed, are WRITTEN by special interest groups and their lobbyists. That is outraguous. As I say, the law today is for sale to the highest bidder, like all other banana republics.— February 9, 2011 9:45 p.m.
Carlsbad Police Track Gladys Conrad's Murderer Back to Mexico
I think we all remember certain cases, the big cases and the tragic cases. For me this was one of the tragic and senseless cases. I remember the Knott murder too, most do. I remember the Stephanie Crowe murder,the Dale Akiki trial. I remember Sagon Penn, Gerald Riggs and Donavan Jacobs. I remember Jerry Hartless and a few others. They will be in my memoery until I die.— February 9, 2011 9:41 p.m.