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Five Oceanside Police Have DUIs?
Oh, I have done many ride alongs, and have seen much more behind the scenes than that, believe me. Cops are not hired on merit-and as I have said before-if they hired 100% on merit based testing the entire make up of all major metro PD's would be 100% different than they are today....and it would be light years better. The last big name cop to be hired on merit via civil service testing was LAPD Chief Darryle Gates, and that was over 30 years ago.....— September 14, 2010 7:05 p.m.
City Wants Consultant for Managed Competition
Bummer we cant take the city in to BK court involuntarily!!! Me, Don, Founder, crystal, refried and JustCluseless could all go down and file the petitions as "concerned citizens"!!!— September 14, 2010 7 p.m.
NY Pension System Underfunded; State Broke
Well, I was wrong, the San Jose PD Chief is actually 50 not 51, and yes, he is interviewing for the chief job in Dallas! Now everyone knows why we are BK in every muni, county and the state itself. When someone with no college degree can be promoted from within up the chain of command of a municipal police department, not even in the top 3 in the state for size, and then "retire" at age 50 with an $8 million pension at age 50 the system is very broken.— September 14, 2010 2:57 p.m.
City Wants Consultant for Managed Competition
They would file a chapter 9 petition at the US BK Court in Down Town San Diego, and that is where it starts.— September 14, 2010 2:53 p.m.
City Wants Consultant for Managed Competition
We ARE bankrupt, we just have not filed yet. We put over $100 million-the tobacco lawsuit money- into the pension black hole, and now the bozos want a sales/pension tax for more money-and it still is not even close to being enough.— September 14, 2010 12:31 p.m.
Corporate America Keeps Profits Strong, Jobs Weak
The fact that Boehner backed down on the tax cuts indicates the Democrats have an issue. ================== Bonehead Boehner is nothing but a shill for Big Business, always has been, always will be. His daughter works for the scamming Sallie Mae........whom he goes to bat for on all issues that threaten to lower their profits even if it would help the country.— September 14, 2010 7:59 a.m.
NY Pension System Underfunded; State Broke
Being a politician or bureaucrat used to be called working in public service. Now these are simply paths to quick, dubious riches ===================== When you have ff's and cops "retiring" at age 50, 51, 52 or 53 or 55 with pensions valued at $8 million-$10 million, MORE than the CEO's of 90% of the Fortune 500, then you have problems. BIG problems. And yes, there are multiple examples of this happening in gov- the most recent being the police chief of San Jose who is retiring at age 51 with a pension valued at $8 million-and is now a finalist for the police chief job in Dallas.— September 14, 2010 7:37 a.m.
City Wants Consultant for Managed Competition
I am in agreement with everyone-another mess/scam/disaster waiting to happen. Gov was, is, and always will be, about cronyism and nepotism.— September 14, 2010 7:32 a.m.
Five Oceanside Police Have DUIs?
Surfpuppy, maybe what burwell meant to say is most LAPD officers are morons and they shouldn't use alcohol. ======= That would make more sense!— September 12, 2010 7:43 p.m.
NY Pension System Underfunded; State Broke
Don, I am pretty sure it has sunk in with the citizens. The media attention to the issue has been off the charts the last 2 years. Full court press. The only people I see doing otherwise are gov employees and their elected officials. The major universities (U of Chicago, Stanford, Northwestern) have all put out White Papers thoroughly documenting the problem (wild unsubstantiated ROI in highly speculative and risky investments). The problem is we have the pensions funds and the gov's downplaying the problems, claiming there are no problems. I see that virtually everyday from gov employees and elected officials Sanders) who are in their pocket. Heck, we have JustClueless posting that nonsense here on a regualr basis, that "there is no problem", as soon as the economy comes back the issue will go away. The # of gov emplpoyees receiving 6 figure pensions in their 50's is rising at a rate of 500% per year...... We have yet to see CUTS, or even caps, in compensation for gov employees. As the private sector has been wiped out, gov employement has actually increased. Vallejo went bankrupt yet still gave their PD and FD 7% raises. Our own SDPD received 11% raises. This in the middle of the worst downturn in 80+ years. No, we are going to have to completely, 100% implode before the elected officials take action I am afraid.— September 12, 2010 8:55 a.m.