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Sanders's "Frighten 'Em" Prop. D Scam
So where do I get my RECALL SANDERS bumper =============== He does indeed need to be recalled, the Spanos/Chargers backroom stadium deal was the last straw for many.................— October 21, 2010 9:08 a.m.
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Bauder's Rule on Fraud by Financial Complexity most likely applies. === Good rule to follow— October 21, 2010 12:17 a.m.
Councilmember Marti Emerald Douses Political Firestorm over San Diego's Public Safety Budget Cuts
Go ahead and send YOUR plan to DeMaio. One of two thing will happen, he'll claim he came up with it or some slight variation or he'll just ignore you like so many others. ============ It is MY plan, but to be honest I would not care one bit if Carl DeMaio or anyone else used it and took all the credit for it. If it gets the city out of debt, under a **progressive** debt reduction plan, then they can take the credit all day long. The fact is if we do not implement a plan like MINE, or one similar to it where salary is lowered and capped for high income earners, like Safety, then the only option left is bankruptcy. San Diego is technically bankrupt right now on a cash flow basis, income does not meet expenses (so is the state), by a fairly large %. Pension costs are taking up 1 dollar out of every 5 in revenue. And it is getting worse, not better. By capping salary, we are also capping pension costs b/c the pensions are based on the highest years salary. This muni will not survive unless salary, and by default pensions, are capped.— October 20, 2010 11:50 p.m.
Councilmember Marti Emerald Douses Political Firestorm over San Diego's Public Safety Budget Cuts
. I want to see those 62 year old firefighter hauls up 100LB hoses with the other 100 lbs of safety gear. ============== Plenty of other jobs besides actively pulling hoses, which account for what-2% of a FF's job?? 98% of their calls are paramedic calls, not fighting fires. Same with PD, there are plenty of jobs that need to be done that does not require patrol or even shift work. Do you know that every single school in the Sweetwater Union High School District had a FULLTIME CV/National City cop assigned to it, with their highest in the county compensation?? Can you tell me why every school in the SUHSDistrict needs what essentially amounts to a fulltime baby sitter assigned to it, when they are comping the babysitter $200K per year???? That would be a perfect job for a 50-62 y/o CV cop. But if they do need to retire before age 62-for disability or any other reason-then you simply have to bring down their pensions. Retiring at age 50 with a 25%, or even 50% pension would not break the budget.— October 20, 2010 11:40 p.m.
Sanders's "Frighten 'Em" Prop. D Scam
Now you've got me worried that maybe he was a no-show because she is telling him that it is winning by a wide margin. But somehow I can't see that. ================================= I cannot for one second presume D is winning, even by just 1 point. I am positive it is losing, and losing badly. DeMaio ordered literally thousands of No on D signs, they were gone in 2 days, he had to order a bunch more. He has the phone banks lined up and staffed (I'm doing this), with the first round of calls by the phone bank this past Monday, and more next week. Opening mail in ballots before the election is election fraud, a felony, I doubt anyone would be that stupid, but I guess it is possible (this is the KFC Sanders admin)-then again Dumbass would be the one to bring charges and we know her record on bringing political felonies, her and KFC are in bed together.— October 20, 2010 11:30 p.m.
Sanders's "Frighten 'Em" Prop. D Scam
The excessive pay, benefits, and pensions of public employees – especially public employee union members – is bankrupting cities, counties, and states. Public employee union members are greatly overpaid because they often kick back as much as a thousand dollars in campaign contributions for every million dollars of excess pay, benefits, and pension increases they receive from dopey politicians giving away taxpayers’ money (OPM). The management side of public employees are given even higher compensation, to avoid “salary compaction” (salary compression). This is especially true of sworn firefighters and police officers, whom receive $150,000 to $250,000 per year in virtually every muni in this state/ Lets see KFC Sanders spin those numbers into a scare tactic.— October 20, 2010 11:20 p.m.
Sanders's "Frighten 'Em" Prop. D Scam
We have the election in less than two weeks, Carl DeMaio has a huge crew fighting Measure D, including phone banks. I don't think for a second, in this economic meltdown, the thing has a snowballs chance in hell of passing. The public is onto the pension scam, and they won't be fooled by the safety whoppers, or Sanders. I think Sanders credibility with the San Diego public is zero. Just my feeling.— October 20, 2010 8:48 p.m.
San Diego’s pension fund expects to earn 7.75 percent a year
. I would hate to see you knocked off for pursuing this endlessly. =============== They can boot my account anytime they want. I'm not going to let a loser like Jay Allen, or russl, come on here and lie thru their teeth unopposed.— October 20, 2010 6:20 p.m.
San Diego’s pension fund expects to earn 7.75 percent a year
As I recall the comment thread you refer to, someone else said you had flagged a comment for removal, which you denied. I pointed out that such flagging isn't necessarily confidential, and I confirmed that I believe the commentator who was saying you flagged a comment. Judging from the way you still keep attacking and insulting that commentator, and now me, I still hold that belief --- =========================== Flagging IS confidential, or at least it was until you started telling the entire world who was doing the flagging. Flagging is not something that the pulbic here can see or has access to, despite your whopper lie that they do. ONLY a web admin can see flagging. YOU went on and told everyone in that thread that I indeed was the one who flagged, and that you also had access to the IP addresses and aalso knew who was posting under several handles. Again, IP addresses are not public, only people with access to the server can get that info. Do you want me to go through your posts and find that one, to set your amnesiac brain staight????? As for your ridiculous claim that; "Judging from the way you still keep attacking and insulting that commentator, and now me, I still hold that belief ---" Oh brother, another BS whopper lie from you, but that is no surprise. You and .... russl have a hard time dealing with the truth. The fact is russl had a major meltdown over a year ago over a silly, sarcastic comment I made, and he has still not recovered from it. He has repeatedly come onto the Don Bauder threads and posted NOTHING but negative comments about me, just like he did here in this thread, and has done repeatedly since his meltdown thread. But leave it up to a clown like you top try to flip it around and make me ouyt to be the bad guy! And why not tell us this Jay Allen, WHY did russl, in this very thread, say it was a bad idea for me to call out a Reader "web admin", referring to you?????? So Jay Allen, here is an idea, why don't you put a cork in your BS, you breached the TOS, you have breached my personal info which I have already described, and overall you're a clown.— October 20, 2010 6:17 p.m.
Councilmember Marti Emerald Douses Political Firestorm over San Diego's Public Safety Budget Cuts
On one hand San Diegans are tax adverse, it's been that way for years. In simpler words, they're cheap. ======================\ I disagree with you JW. Hey, what a surprise. We are not "cheap". We simply do not want to pay Cadillac prices for a Yugo. And that is what is happenng with gov employees and their compensation. It is a well documented fact that gov employees are grossly over compensated. There is no reason for public employees (or anyone else for that matter) to have DB pensions that start at age 50 with 90% of their salary. None whatsoever. It is an insult to the work class taxpayer/s making much less and working much longer, 50% longer. That is why we are in the deficit hole we are-we have two gov workforces today, the one working and a second one (probably bigger than the first one that is actually working at this point as well as making more money via 90%+ pensions) that is retired. I laid out my plan to get out of the hole before, but in case you missed it; 1) raise the retirement age to 62 for safety, age 67 for everyone esle 2) change the multiplier to 1% per year DB, and add in a small DC to supplement the DB, or better yet have ALL the public employees go into a DC with a generous match, 12%-15%, so THEY TOO share the risk of loss, not just taxpeyers, who already are stuck with their own risk of loss with DC's. 3) Cut and CAP ALL public employee pay, progessively, with those at $100K and more taking a 25% cut, then as the salary drops you drop the % of the cut, take THAT MONEY you just cut, put it into the pension system and get it fully funded, 120% or more. That would work, where those making out the best would take the biggest hit-and they can afford to. You have a better plan JW???...(not the one where you raise every tax a public employee can dream up either), then post it up. But tax increases are not happening, not today and not for at least 3-5 years, b/c it will take that long to get out of this mess. In fact, I am sending this plan over to Carl DeMaio via Facebook, he needs to see my plan, it is the only one that will work short of a BK filing.— October 20, 2010 5:46 p.m.