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Journal Puts Floatopia on Page One
Perhaps you would like to be on the bay and tell the young adults (most minors) how to behave. Living on Sail Bay it is refreshing to have it attract people for the right reasons and not the Circus it was with the booze on it. ======== I lived in Mision Beach for years, and there was NEVER the problem that a few VOCAL whiners claim. The vast majority of reisdnets do NOT want an alcohol ban at the beach/bay. MS, Mission Bay/Sail bay, I have RARELY seen alcohol problems. I saw one or two problems on major holidays like the 4th of July or Labor Day, but that was very rare, and limited to the most heavily visited 2 holidays of the year. I'm sorry, but there has never been alcohol problems outside of the rare incident on a major holiday and we have laws in place to deal with those problems already.— July 25, 2010 11:40 a.m.
Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmCiDB_72g&featur… David Walker talks pensions and deficits.....— July 25, 2010 10:34 a.m.
Journal Puts Floatopia on Page One
Floatopia would not be news if the idiot clowncil didn't ban alcohol on the beach......... We don't need nanny clowncil members telling us grown ups how to act or behave. If someone gets too drunk and gets out of line there are laws to deal with it.— July 25, 2010 10:13 a.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
I said it before, now the US Senate agrees with me; A boom in for-profit colleges may be a bust for taxpayers and students July 25, 2010 Many drop out or find the programs aren't accredited, a Senate panel reports. ****Fees, often twice as much as at public universities, are often paid with federal loans, with a high default rate*** http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la…— July 25, 2010 10:08 a.m.
Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
Just don't EVER fall for the notion that tax boosts are "temporary". They rarely sunset ======== There is no such thing as a "temporary tax". The Loma Prieta earthquake is the best example when a half cent "temporary sales tax" was enacted to fix the damage, or course that half cent "temporary sales tax" never went away. Vista, National City and La Mesa ALL passed a pension sales tax increase within the last 2 years. That will NOT happen in San Diego and I doubt those sales tax increases could be passed again in those three cities. The Cadillac pension genie is out of the bottle, and no one is going to fall for any kind of tax increase, be it sales or parcel. I also expect all the school districts to lobby for parcel taxes again, even in this recession, like they always do every 2 years. It is just what they do to increase their pocket books. All this city, and any other city, has to do to get out of the red is cap all salary and benefits, or even lower them to the market level- and the red ink will be gone.— July 24, 2010 3:42 p.m.
Lest We Forget: Pension Woes Worse Than Ever
Is a "fraudstir" someone who stirs fraud? ============= Fraudstir, Fraudstur, Fraudster or Fraudstear, I am sure you will find the correct spelling.— July 24, 2010 9:16 a.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
I don't think churning out college graduates is the worst thing that can happen to our country. . By Clarissa ================== It is when the people are graduating from diploma mills like Ashford (where the degree/education is NOT worth the paper it is printed on), and Ashford has lied about employment stats, like UOP and every ABA law school in America has, and the student cannot pay back the student loan money borrowed, borrowed on the good faith assumption from the schools rigged employment stats, and the student is then driven into poverty. YES, it is one of the worst things that can happen to this country, inducing the poor and ignorant into taking out tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans for an education that is worthless, despite your claims that this is not the "worst thing". But then again you went to Cal, and UOP's law shcool (great area btw-as long as you're inside before dark) so you know everything there is to know about higher education. Thank you :)— July 23, 2010 9:07 p.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
People need something to do and I would rather they were studying something than deciding who to rob or sitting around feeling sorry for themselves and thus becoming hateful non-contributors. By Clarissa ========================== Yes, I love it when morons like me claim that those who point out FRAUD claim that others are "hateful non-contributors"! Wow, anymore nuggets of gold you want to lay on me the Einstein of Education?— July 23, 2010 8:52 p.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
I don't know enough about the Davis Amendment to make a statement one way or another, but I think it's possible that if the students could discharge this debt in bankruptcy court, the for-profit colleges may become even more brazen. Indeed, it could become part of their pitch to entice students to enroll and get into debt. ===== No, that would not work b/c the default rate would exceed what DoE allows for SL funding, which I believe is 25%. So once enough students filed to discharge the bogus debt the for profit fraud scholol would be out of business.— July 23, 2010 8:46 p.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
The young people are told that a college degree is a ticket to money. More often than not, it isn't. ================== It comes down to the cost/utility test. What is the cost of the education and what will the education bring back in monetary value??? Not personal growth value, but monetary value. Generally speaking, a college education today, even at a public college, does not return the value of the money and study time in vested (4-6 years for a BA/7-8 years for advanced degree) to be a monetary benefit.— July 23, 2010 8:29 p.m.