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What's your take on the Tea Party?
I agree taxes are good- so that services can be had. But you said you wanted too pay MORE taxes-and under the current use of taxes I cannot agree with that, and thought you were joking.— December 29, 2010 12:58 p.m.
Is Chula Vista Budgetary Rainstorm That Bad?
Stop a minute and think. Do you really think the employees have always had employer paid pension? The answer is "NO" How did they get this? In Lieu of pay raises over a several year period. ========================= LOL....YES, gov employees have ALWAYS had a pension, a DB pension at that, they never were without one. Stop spinning, wont work here buddy. And the only employees who have not received pay raises the last decade are the private sector. In fact public safety pay/comp has DOUBLED in the last 10 years alone, or averaged 10% per year increases. You now have GED level gov employees making more than lawyers, doctors, dentists and CPA's, all professions requyiring years of college and graduate shcool. In addition gov employees received 50% retroactive pension increases they did not pay for or earn. Public employees have NEVER given up raises for a pension. Flat out lie, one of the many the trough feeding public employees claim. . . . . There is no Social Security for them because they cannot contribute while working for the City. ========================= LOL...no kidding, they have DEFINED BENEFIT pensions that pay $100K plus at age 50 and are worth $5-$10 million, the MAX SS pension is $31K at age 67, worth $300K. . . . Then you get on here and put out false information about a Chula Vista Police Officers salary being $200 to $250 thousand a year?? =========================== Heheheh...here is another GED cop who has the reading comprehension of...well.........a GED cop. No one said CV cops earn a "salary" of $200K-$250K, what was said is they receive "COMPENSATION" of $200K plus, BEFORE any overtime is added in, due in large part to their $5-$10 milion pensions. Remember, this is a job that only requires a GED, and nothing else, not even prior work experience. I know it must be hard for a cop like you with limited, circus chimp type brain power-but I know you can figure this out if you put your pea sized brain to work, for once. . . . . You cannot and should not calculate overtime into their Base Salary. It just doesnt make since. ======= Errr....right!....tell you what Einstein Junior-when these trough feeders stop taking OT and do it for free, that is when we will not include it in their compensation. Stop spinning, your "talking points" might work good at a purple shirted SEIU BBQ,or a cop beach party but it will not work here!— December 29, 2010 12:51 p.m.
Grantville Redevelopment Money Transfer Ruled Permissible
At the U.S. Supreme Court level, it's as much a matter of simply being pro-business as being ideologically conservative. ========== No, I disagree- it is the conservative ideology that rules the day-Big Business and gov are certainly who they protect, but it is not limited to those two. I point to the recent Prop 8 trial in San Francisco, where Judge Walker had given the A-OK to televise the trial, and if there was EVER a case to televise it was Prop 8. The Prop 8 supporters went to the 9th Circuit to stop it-they lost-they then appealed to the SCOTUS, who for the ONLY TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD OF, intervened into a pending case at the trial level and over ruled the 9th and the trial judge, blocking the television coverage of the case. Now, I am sure there are a few instances of this happening at some other time in the history of our 235 year old country-but I do not know of a single one, out of literally millions of cases filed every year. That would NEVER have happened if the petitioners were anyone other than relgious organizations and groups. Never. Ever. Not in a million years. Ideology is what makes law today-not a fair, reasonable interpretation of the law from the Constitution. Our foundig fathers would roll over in their graves if they saw what our country has become- essentially a banana republic.— December 29, 2010 12:38 p.m.
Grantville Redevelopment Money Transfer Ruled Permissible
A Good Lawyer knows the Law, A Great Lawyer knows the Judge! ===================== LOL..the funniest part of this is that is was once, and I am sure still is, totally, 100% TRUE in San Diego. Ask attorney Pat Frega and San Diego Superior Court Judges Adams, Malkus and Greer, who all ended up in the Joint.— December 29, 2010 12:30 p.m.
Home Values in San Diego, Other Metro Areas Decline
A positive one: "Every Man a King" . http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson122810… . "Yet this Christmas we should all at least give ourselves some credit. In the last three decades, the United States — through technological breakthroughs, improved worker productivity and the importation of globalized production from abroad — has achieved a level of material prosperity for its 300 million citizens unmatched at any time in the history of civilization." ============= I do not agree with this at all. Every American is at an UNMATCHED level of prosperity??? Please, there are literally millions of people who are homeless in the USA today-that was unheard of even 30 years ago. . . One not so positive: "Two Californias" . http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson121610… . ===============================— December 29, 2010 12:14 p.m.
Home Values in San Diego, Other Metro Areas Decline
Rents in San Diego are very high in absolute terms. However, in relation to the underlying value of the property, they are not that high. ==================== Housing in San Diego is sky high in both absolute and relative terms, it is called the sunshine tax.— December 29, 2010 6:24 a.m.
Is Chula Vista Budgetary Rainstorm That Bad?
Like I said-it is well known fact and common knowledge-no need to prove it up to you or anyne else. Just liek I don't have to prove CV is in CA-it is beyond dispute. All you have to do is look it up or get the info yourself.— December 28, 2010 8:25 a.m.
Home Values in San Diego, Other Metro Areas Decline
Home pricing and sales are directly related to the job market. No jobs = lower home prices, less home sales. Simple math and economics. We have basically turned into a banana republlic, and homes sales are just another factor proving that fact up.— December 28, 2010 8:20 a.m.
For-Profit Colleges, Including Bridgepoint, Boost Lobbying
Bridgepoint Education scam; . http://www.google.com/search?q=Bridgepoint+Educat… .— December 27, 2010 4:33 p.m.
For-Profit Colleges, Including Bridgepoint, Boost Lobbying
More than one prominent member of the establishment argue that taxpayers are too unsophisticated to vote on such matters as spending taxpayer money to build a new civic center ==================== LOL..one of the WORST statements to ever come out of Malin Burnham's mouth!!!!— December 27, 2010 4:31 p.m.