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Get Used to Unemployment
The Obama administration is not going to to anything differently than it has been doing for the last 2 1/2 years. ========== Then Obama better hope for the kind of luck Ronnie Raygun had-where his first 2 years were a disaster but the tide tunred bigtime the last two. If that happens Obama will be OK-but that is a long shot IMO. People have lost jobs, are losing eberything they own and the only ones doing good are the connected few-which look to me like the top 5% and gov employees. And the public is scared to death I think.— August 23, 2010 3:32 p.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
2. The US enabled the breakup of the USSR, by outspending them, causing an internal collapse of services to it's people , this is what is now happening in the USA. =============== Funny-I was thinking this exact same thing a few weeks back, we BKed the USSR with an arms race basically, and today we are now BKing ourselves with out of control spending, and the writing is on the wall-many people have and are firing off loud warning shots. I read today that the democratic Congress (and Obama) was working on a bill to BAILOUT private pension funds! I have been pretty outraged with these "bailouts", always going to the connected few (Big banks/Wall Street/ teachers Unions) and if there are any more of these bailouts I think it will be the end of the Obama administration. I voted for the guy and will give him a full 4 years to turn the economy around-but I am so infuriated at these bailouts for the connected that my blood is boiling. I will NOT be voting for Obama again unless there are some serious changes in the next 18 months-much more serious than the ones we have seen to date,— August 23, 2010 2:19 p.m.
Not Funny
This guy needs a long long sentence.......— August 23, 2010 7:49 a.m.
County Unemployment Rate Jumps to 10.8%
You say things strongly, SP. Why can't Refried? ========= Yes, I have laid into JW a few times......I was being sarcastic with refried though!......hey, the internet was made for anonymously bashig people, otherwise it would nto be any fun......and I have received mroe than my fair share myself.— August 22, 2010 10:47 p.m.
Loves Birds
I dig Normandie Wilson's look .......— August 22, 2010 6:25 p.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
BTW: If that economic engine does not restart soon, all those rich folks may not get a very friendly welcome when they venture outside their palaces! ================ Civil unrest is just around the corner, if; #1) the economy does not improve ( and I am thinking it may not, and then Obama will be a one term president), and; #2) the poor and what is left of the middle class keep getting screwed over by the Congress and state legislators, who are lap dogs for special interests-mainly Big Buisiness and public unions.— August 22, 2010 6:24 p.m.
County Unemployment Rate Jumps to 10.8%
The journalism is pathetic, and the "new format" looks like some knock-off made for children. .... It's a joke, plain and simple, a big giant joke. By refriedgringo ================= Come on now Refried-don't hold back, TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL! LOL! !! !!— August 22, 2010 6:17 p.m.
County Unemployment Rate Jumps to 10.8%
The UT has done a spin off section called the "Watchdog" (a spin off from the OC Registers "Watchdog" column), and this comment was posted today; Wow. Great idea. Matt Potter and Don Bauder (who left U-T after refusing to be a Rah-Rah cheerleader for Petco Park) at the Reader have been doing watchdog reports for years. Voice of San Diego has been doing numerous watchdog reports for quite some time. Good thing that the supposedly major news outlet in town has decided to put some resources into investigative reporting into official misconduct. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/13/we… .— August 22, 2010 2:22 p.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
About 80% of California's population do live within driving distance of a public university. ============= What do you call "driving distance"??? And then you have to remember that many students do not have access to cars, and must use bicycles or public transportation. I grew up in the Bay Area, and there was NO public university within 20 miles of my home, not even 30 miles- with the exception of Berkeley, and the fact is just becaue you live in the vicinity of Berkeley or other public school ( 20 miles) does NOT mean you have access to the public university-in fact UC Berkeley is the most selective public university in the nation-not an option for 99% of students.— August 22, 2010 9:05 a.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
I respectfully disagree. I received my engineering degree from SDSU in 3.5 years (1978-1981) with a minor in business. I did have AP credits from high school and went to summer school at Mesa College. I did not work when I went to undergraduate school. I finished an MBA at SDSU in 2 years while working full time. Tuition was $99 per semester when I started as an undergraduate and had increased to ~$350 per semester when I finished graduate school. A friend's kid just graduated from UC Davis in 4 years. ======================== You were at SDSU when it was hard, but not impossible to get classes. I finished in 3 years in the 80's when the school was heavily impacted, taking 20 units per semester the final 3 semesters-since the fulltiem tuition was the same for any amount of units at 12 or more, but it was through nothing but luck that I was able to get the classes, and many had to be taken out of sequence to graduate in the manner I did. This included winter sessions and summer sessions, where the cost was not subsidized by the state-you paid the actual costs for the classes during those sessions. But I was the EXCEPTION, not the rule. Many, MANY of my friends actually left SDSU after their 1st and 2nd years because of the problem of getting classes. It was and IS a major problem. UC Davis is not comaprable SDSU. I have no idea how hard it is to get clases there-but UC Davis is not the crown jewel of the UC system, it is not even in 2nd or 3rd place, so it is nto a legit comaprison. In 1987 SDSU was the largest univesity on the west coast @ 38K students-it has been forced to downsize since then, b/c of the school being severely impacted-it is the crown jewel of the CSU system, and by far the most popular of the CSU schools. SDSU and Long Beach have been trading the top spot for most students for many years now, but SDSU is the oldest and highest ranked CSU school in the system. Alweays has been. When I started at SDSU tuition was $150/semester-$300 for the year. Tuition today is $5K+ a year, and there is no end in sight for costs......— August 22, 2010 8:38 a.m.