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Massachusetts nails LPL Financial
Gosh, Don, I hope you're all right! Just busy?— March 2, 2013 9:55 p.m.
SDGE, SCE must justify charging customers for idle San Onofre
Good POINT, Don. Thou hast cast off the cataracts from mine eyes! And I thought I knew all their dirty tricks.— March 2, 2013 9:53 p.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
This is The Age of Exploitation--the concept of competitive culture at its apex. We can accept the nadir, or we can reduce the induced oscillations that are increasing in frequency and amplitude and live on in an Age of Reconciliation--fulfilling our NEEDS rather than letting ourselves continue to be seduced by Mad Av into sacrificing them to fulfill our DESIRES. We can go on being infantile--or we can GROW UP. The alternative is likely to be one where the one percent and their goons will have to live increasingly in gated, guarded enclaves (not communities--they are anti-social), moving about in bullet-proof limos and underground bunkers stored with canned food, not daring to venture beyond the perimeter. People with nothing more to lose, as we are seeing in Syria, will gladly stone their oppressors, even at the price of their lives. But, like crazed junkyard dogs, the oppressed will lash out at the nearest target--what's left of the "Middle Class," who are left outside the gate. And those who hire on as goons? When they're out of ammunition, they will get their reward at the hands of those they didn't manage to kill defending their masters. Culture, at its apex, is insanity. The only cure is social interaction--cooperating to survive, not climb pyramids. Yet, we, the people of the United States of America, still believe that we MIGHT hit the lottery and thus join the one percent, so we continue to buy the "American Dream" of HITTING IT BIG! A cottage and picket fence and a car? That was pure propaganda! But we bought it and are still buying it.— March 2, 2013 9:50 p.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
"Privilege" gained at the expense of others has cost the heads and empires of every past civilization.— March 2, 2013 9:21 p.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
Well, Don, that might not be all bad. "Sustainability" and all that. On the other hand, the prediction I made in 1965 (The Corporate Feudal State--don't look for it; it was not published, but it aroused the ire of the Econ prof) might be even more severely validated than it already is. The Neo-Dark Ages?— March 2, 2013 9:14 p.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
The only way "we" the people can get much done is to live lives of frugal luxury, barter as much as possible, and avoid buying corporate products. But governors and the Feds will "take whatever measures necessary." REMEMBER KENT STATE! PS: And don't forget the Milgram experiment and its history and banning of that sort of thing.— March 2, 2013 10:33 a.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
In 1958, I made $12,000 working for a plant nursery. The MF calculator said that would be over $97,000 in 2013. I haven't come close to that since.— February 28, 2013 11 p.m.
San Diegans in their 20s don't make enough for rent
Even a lightweight, mean-ass SOB like Henry Ford knew that his underpaid employees counted among his customers. Today's "capitalists" would wither were it not for the welfare they're getting from a shrinking base. The Consumer is the Golden Goose, but the unfed don't lay golden eggs or buy more than toys and drugs. When Walmart's sales dip, look OUT! What would the five bucks a day that Ford paid his factory workers factor out to today?— February 28, 2013 10:52 p.m.
SDGE, SCE must justify charging customers for idle San Onofre
Any sign of incompetence has a more than even chance of being representative of the whole.— February 22, 2013 10:10 p.m.
Massachusetts nails LPL Financial
Will you be commenting further or writing a follow-up piece on how this might apply to California, Don?— February 22, 2013 2:15 p.m.