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Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
Johnny Vegas offering Vegas odds, on a ballot issue for heaven sake. Quoting one of yesterday's public comments: What planet are you from? ================== LOL...this coming from one of the biggest scammers in gov employment! Like I said; "JW may try to pin a bad rap on me to try to silence my voice of treason."— July 27, 2010 9:20 p.m.
Kerry Steigerwalt of Pacific Law Center says he was the “fall guy”
I'm IN!— July 27, 2010 5:27 p.m.
Kerry Steigerwalt of Pacific Law Center says he was the “fall guy”
It's not clear to me that Steigerwalt was practicing law at the Pacific Law Center, a corporation with a separate legal existence. Steigerwalt was apparently Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of a corporation that hired lawyers who in turn provided legal services directly to the public. Steigerwalt was not practicing law and representing clients as CEO. He was managing a business. =============== Non-lawyers CANNOT operate a law firm, CA. law and Bar ethical rules prohibits the situation you just described. Lawyers cannot even share fees with non-layers. Steigerwalt is the head of PLC, and he is practicing law as head of the firm.— July 27, 2010 5:24 p.m.
Kerry Steigerwalt of Pacific Law Center says he was the “fall guy”
Pacific Law Center is a corporation. Steigerwalt is not personally liable for the corporation's debts if the corporation goes bankrupt =================== Not true-"piercing the corporate veil", happens all the time, it depends on what was going on, if there was fraud involved then Steigerwalt cannot shield himself from liability behind the corporate veil.— July 27, 2010 5:23 p.m.
Journal Puts Floatopia on Page One
If it is on the ballot in this town, it is not DOA. It will have strong union support (and money) along with the entire mayor and council, against very little in opposition dollars for the campaign. If they make a deal to sign up both Frye and DeMaio, it will probably pass. ============ Nope, not happening (IMO). The unions can spend all the money in the world, until the cows come home, but until the pay and pension problems are addressed FIRST there is not going to be any tax hike initiative, much less approval. EVEN with pay and pension reform there is still a good chance there would not be a tax approval from the public, not in San Diego. EVEN with Carl and Donna backing it it would face an almost impossible task of passing (which Carl is not going to do, and Donna only with serious conditions). This country is in a depression, and San Diego is in far worse shape than the country. We no longer have a middle class or the tax base the middle class brings with it. We continue to ship our manufacturing jobs to China, India and other third world countries that do not have the same standards we have, and with those jobs goes our tax base. Anyway, we have a few more days, but my money is on Carl. EVEN if the sales tax passed-do you or anyone else here- think that will solve ANYTHING??? No, it will not. We have a structural deficit that we cannot tax our way out of , we need to either lower (or CAP) all pay, and we need to push gov retiremnt to age 67, or if SS raises that to 70, then we need to push it to age 70. You cannot have gov employees making $70K, $80K, $90K-$150K "retiring" at age 50-57 and receiving pensions up to 90% of their highest years salary with 3% COLA's (so in 4 years, at age 54, they would be making MORE in retirement than their highest paid year on the job) and FREE healthcare for life. Does not add up, the math simply does not work. Rant over. Sorry for the passion.— July 27, 2010 5:13 p.m.
Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
The Veags betting line was sarcasm. I don't want to run afoul of our LE buddies here, JW may try to pin a bad rap on me to try to silence my voice of reason.— July 27, 2010 4:58 p.m.
Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
As Doctor FRANK-KAN-STEIN said in Mel Brooks' 1974 Classic "Young Frankenstein".... It's ALIVE..IT'S ALLLLLIIIIIVEEEEEEEE.... The city of San Diego’s sales tax discussion has been revived once again as City Councilwoman Donna Frye reversed course Tuesday morning and asked for a special session to discuss the issue further. ============= Put it on the ballot-see what happens. A sales tax will go down by at LEAST a 2-1 margin. This isn’t La Mesa, El Cajon or National City- and this isn’t the go-go 2001-2007's either. So bring the sales tax ballot initiative on-I am giving Vegas odds on that, anyone want that action?— July 27, 2010 4:56 p.m.
Journal Puts Floatopia on Page One
The sales tax is absolutely not dead. ============= Sorry, it is 100% DOA. If it even were to get on the ballot it would NEVER, EVER, EVEN IN A MILLION YEARS, EVER pass. IMO anyway.— July 27, 2010 3:43 p.m.
Journal Puts Floatopia on Page One
had two great charts ("before & after") that made it easy to see, THAT YOU COULD NOT SEE ANY DIFFERENCE and that the "proposed" tax increase would not even be detectible unless you got real close and squinted! The Councilmembers that did vote for "letting the voters decide" will, I believe, regret their decision, because during the "pleading period" by Council President Ben Hueso trying to get Councilmember Donna Fry to change her mind, it became obvious to those in the room that the Council was not even in "the City, much less the Ball Park" when it came to getting our Finances in order! After the meeting, a comment overheard on the way down (no pun intended) in the elevator summed up our City Leaders efforts to date, " I would not even want to rent to them, would you? By Founder =================== You're my new hero "Founder"— July 27, 2010 3:40 p.m.
Journal Puts Floatopia on Page One
so I think the sales tax on the ballot is considered to be a done deal. =============== Nope, no sales tax on ballot. Would never pass anyway.— July 26, 2010 10:10 p.m.