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Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
Yep. That helps the city out. What about SDCERS? It still hasn't dawned on you that they're two separate entities. ================= Wow, nice deflection from me destroying your bogus claim...you want to talk about both city and county-no problemo.....it obivously applies to BOTH city and county, or did that not occur to you?? My comment was you cut the salary, you save big $$$$, and you take the savings from that cut and shore up the pension fund/s, that was my point..... then YOU claimed that would NOT save any money-I debunked that lie and you know it, so now you deflect and spin . . How does paying less into SDCERS help out the unfunded liability? SDCERS is largely funded by investment gains. If you don't put the capital in, you can't make the gains. ============== #1, who said anything about paying less???????....I never said oen thing about paying in less, in fact I said the opposite, we could fund these pensions with a 25% pay cut to the high wage earners-specicifally PD and FD.....as for investment gains, BOTH pension systems have been a joke the last 5 years, what were they, 1.5% ROI????? Most of the pension fund is currently being funded by the taxpayers, the small portion the employee pays-if they pay anything at all (many pay nothing, their portion is "picked up" by the city)-is minimal, as are the ROI on the portfolio. . . . If the unfunded liability goes up, the ARC goes up. The city pays more ==================== Thank you Captain Obvious. And guess what Captain-the MORE you pay with every pay raise the MORE the pension costs!! So you FREEZE the pay rate or better yet do what I said-CUT IT, then you can fix the pension problem. Right now when we cannot even pay the current pension costs- it is painfully obvious that the ARC is also going up if you keep giving out raises. First rule when you're in the hole, STOP DIGGING ( no more raises). I just told you my plan, what I would do, and as I have proven it would work- now if you have a better idea, please put it out here. And taxes are not going up, not happening, so don't plan on having your millionaire pensions being funded by taxing the poor and middle class, Prop H is going down.— October 10, 2010 4:16 p.m.
Is Chula Vista's Future Blight Around the Corner?
Second, the city posts it's pay for all job classes, and yes I know this does not include the overtime that public safety personnel make. By my count there are five people in the city that make over 200k =================== It also does not include the benefit costs, which DOUBLE the cost of public safety jobs. NOT counting over time. BTW, your so called police chief, he is comping about $400K per year, and another couple hundred K per year from his SDPD pension, and who knows how much he is getting his US Marshall's service pension...... As for you claim that only 5 people "make" over $200K, wrong again, you are only countign salary, you left out the other HALF of their comp, the benefits. In fact I would bet EVERY single CV employee who works full time comps over $100K in CV.— October 10, 2010 3:23 p.m.
Gay & Lesbian Times Doesn't Make It to Print This Week
How long were they in business, I know at LEAST 20 years, but have no idea when they first started....anyone knwo the answer?— October 10, 2010 3:16 p.m.
Is Chula Vista's Future Blight Around the Corner?
Pancho-please. These are WELL documented facts, all you have to do is go to the websites and look, or simply call the HR department, these are all public records. I love it when the public employee trough feeders try to make the poor house claim! Once agian, get your fat greedy hands out of the pockets of the poor and middle class, if you need more money cut the $200K+ comp packages of the PD and FD-since they are paid the most, by far.— October 10, 2010 8:49 a.m.
Chula Vista to Cash In on Telecom Revolution? Prop H to Decide
Hey, if the shoe fits~!— October 10, 2010 8:43 a.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
You criticize him for using invective and then call him a pea brain. ============= I cannot help it, I have seen these people lie, scam and steal for so long now it makes my blood boil. They ALWAYS try to come out with some baloney talking point so they can keep these ridiculous, unsustainable comp packages-while everyone else is going hungry, homeless nad losing the shirts off their backs. If you are pulling down more than $100K in comp you are in the top 7% in the nation, if you're pulling down more than $2000K you're in the top 3%, therefore the ENTIRE PD and FD in this city is in the top 7%, and it is likely that ALL of them are in, or very close to, the top 3% when OT is added in.— October 10, 2010 8:43 a.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
CCDC really needs to be ammended. One of my biggest concerns is that there doesnt appear to be any quality standards and "redevelopment" is intended to mean "redevelopment" not just "development". They seem to have taken this theoretically good idea and exploited it taking all the profits and giving us none of the benefits. ===================== "Amended??? Everyone I know thinks it should be prosecuted, or at the very least 86ed from the face of this city. As for exploiting the cities resources and then taking all the profits, isn't hat exactly what happened to the $100 million tobacco lawsuit settlement money, every last cent of it?? W asn't that money for ALL of this city?? But where did ALL of it go?? Into the pension black hole, and here were are 2 years later with idiot Sanders and Prop D the pensions tax doing the exact same thing, and in another 2 years it will be another scam to close the so called deficit-which cannot be closed by tax hikes.— October 10, 2010 8:36 a.m.
Chula Vista to Cash In on Telecom Revolution? Prop H to Decide
The possibility that voters might turn this one down is DEFINITELY a rating factor as to the willingness of residents to raise funds for paying off municipal debt. =========================== You need to replace "municipla debt" with "pension debt and retiree healthcare costs"— October 9, 2010 8:12 p.m.
Is Chula Vista's Future Blight Around the Corner?
@surfpuppy619: and you have proof this is going-on in Chula Vista? I am not talking about Bell, CA. I am talking about Chula Vista. Where is your proof? =========== Just go to the HR dept, tell them you are requesting a list of everyone in the City that is COMPED (total employee costs = salary and ALL benefits including pensions)-that is all the proof you, or anyone else, need. Listen Pancho buddy, the PD and FD are comping over $200K per year, that is about 5 times the mean income for CV. The cops and FF's, and tons of other employees, are retiring as young as age 50, with pensions of $100K+ per year, THAT IS WHERE YOU START< RIGHT THERE, before you start trying to pick the pockets of the poor and middle class thru tax scams-like H. You need to start with the employees- all the info is out there. Your spin will not work here, just as the curtain caem down in Bell, it will in CV.— October 9, 2010 8:11 p.m.
Last -Minute Legislature Deal Boosts Chances of Massive Chargers Subsidy
Someone find me KFC Sanders email address, I have a link for him http://www.reformsandiego.com/ .— October 9, 2010 4:45 p.m.