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Sen. Harkin Cites Bridgepoint's Shocking Dropout Rate
I have worked for two different companies in two different unrelated businesses and changing locks was standard operating procedure when managers left. ================== I have never seen locks changed myself, even when high level managers left, I guess it may happen, I don't know if it is common. I thought you were claiming that when any employee left locks would be changed.— January 1, 2011 1:24 a.m.
Is Chula Vista Budgetary Rainstorm That Bad?
Council Pay and their raises has been something of the absurd. They contend that they cannot change their pay raises because their pay and raises are tied to a percentage of what the county superior court judges get paid and in order to change the council members pay, they'd have to change the city charter. ============== It is very common for public unions, and other gov employees, to tie their wages to state judges-and this is actually relatively new, within the last 15 years or so. They can untie it as easily as they tied it.— January 1, 2011 1:21 a.m.
Is Chula Vista Budgetary Rainstorm That Bad?
I left in an attempt to help the CITY out of the jam they were in. Management did nothing to take advantage of it, other than taking advantage of me thru my benefits, Which regardless of SPs comments I earned every dime of. ===================== You received a 50% retroactive pension increase that you did not work for nor earn. So that whopper is shot down right off the bat, and your spin won't change that. Sorry, but the hero whoppers won't fly here. The fact of the mater is you would have to have contributed in excess of $2 million to "retire" after just 27 years of work-with 33 years of "retirement"- for you to kick it with at $80K per year COLA adjusted pension. That would have probably exceeded your entire take home pay for probably every year you worked. The entitlement mentality of gov employees-especially "public safety"- and how they "earned' these scam pensions never fais to amaze me.— January 1, 2011 1:18 a.m.
Is Chula Vista Budgetary Rainstorm That Bad?
SP is also feeding a line regarding a 5 to 10 percent pay raise each year. Never in my career did I receive that type pay raise over the course of 1 year. The most I have ever seen is 10 percent over a 5 year contract and that contract got extended to 2013 making it 10 years. The average COLA in the private sector is 2%. ==================== The average COLA for "public safety" in this stae the last decade has been just under 10%.— January 1, 2011 1:10 a.m.
For-Profit Colleges, Including Bridgepoint, Boost Lobbying
Hey-who saw this article in the SDReader; . http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/private-stu… .— December 31, 2010 6:35 p.m.
For-Profit Colleges, Including Bridgepoint, Boost Lobbying
I hope the Arnie Duncan gets a hell of a lot tougher because the reality remains that gainful employment opportunities are clearly not here now or in the foreseeable future. ============================ And the future is no where as bleak as that for ABA law school graduates-even from T-14 LS's, where there is almost no hiring. University of Michigan LS, a top 10 LS, had companies from INDIA in their on campus job interviews-hiring grads to supervise outsourced legal work in India! When it gets this bad for a top 10 LS grad, what does that say for the rest of us???— December 31, 2010 6:34 p.m.
Letting go of a lousy Christmas
They are family, they will never be able to be replaced. They love unconditionally, and will never stab you in the back. When they die, part of you dies with them.— December 31, 2010 4:19 p.m.
Private Student Loan Crisis Growing and students are struggling
In 2005, language was slipped into the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act which effectively removed bankruptcy protections from private student loans. The brazenness of this action shocked even the most jaded experts on the Hill (when it was discovered). After all, this amounts to the same thing as stripping bankruptcy protections from credit cards, or any other type of unsecured, free-market debt. Make no mistake: there are large injustices with the student lending system generally, but this move set a new low. ========================== Sorry, it was not "slipped in", it was done on purpose, it was well known before the act became law-and it is 100% UNCONSTITUIONAL. I have litigated a student loan case all the way to the US Supreme Court on this issue, and the fact is these unconstitutional scams work because the courts are basically an extension of the gov today-rubber stamping any thing the Congress passes-unless it hurts the idiology of the ones on the bench, and gov today is nothing more than an extenion of special interests. See Al Lord of Sallie Mae and his $400 million in cash salary, and his 18 hole private gold course. The 2005 BK revisions relating to student loans should be struck down as unconstitutional (as well as 20 USC 1095a and 1091a), but for that to happen we need a judiciary that is controlled by the Constitution, not controlled by special interests. That is where the problem is. This country has basically turned into a banana republic, and so have the courts. BTW-the co called reason student loans were removed from BK protection was because a few republicans in Congress said there was a huge problem with doctors and lawyers and other professionals BKing their student loans right out of college-that NEVER happened, ever. The default rate for student loans when that legislation passed was one half of 1%-or one student out of 200. See University of Michigan law professor John Pottow's 2007 law review on that one, P.39.— December 31, 2010 4:14 p.m.
Private Student Loan Crisis Growing and students are struggling
Wow-how did I miss this article!— December 31, 2010 4:04 p.m.
Sen. Harkin Cites Bridgepoint's Shocking Dropout Rate
Margeret Spelling, Arne Duncan, Bush, Obama, there is not much difference in them to me, or the working poor who are stuck in the US educational scam. We have one big party today-controlled by special inbterests. That one party may have two different factions- Dems and Repugs, but they are the same party.— December 31, 2010 4:02 p.m.