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Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
Absolutely see my comment above. All Obama did was bailout the wealthiest and the sleaziest people in the country. He gave the developers billions and billions in cash in the form of retroactive tax refunds going back 5 years. In other words all that money they made the past 5 years w/ the bubble they created....all that money, the money where they were WAY overpaid for low quality oversized homes....all the taxes they had to pay on those undeserved profits....they got every penny back and you paid for it and it did not create 1 job. That money should have been pumped into infrastructure projects if Obama was truely interested in putting construction people to work. But every step of the way we have been told he has to help the little guy....us....by giving our money to the wealthiest sleaze bags so they in turn will find it in their big hearts to hire us.— November 17, 2010 11:42 p.m.
Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
I was trying to warn people about the hidden multi billion dollar bailouts for the billionare land developers back in February of 2009. Sure enough a few days later the media was hailing the housing developers the big winner of the stim bill. I still dont think people really grasp what really happened. It was a HUGE giveaway to the wealthiest and the sleaziest that should have had to suffer. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ive-got-iss…— November 17, 2010 11:36 p.m.
Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
Not to mention it was the enormous lobbying power of the vinyl industry that got that put in there. I have a masters degree in Architecture and the LAST thing you want to do is seal a building up airtight. You get sick building syndrome and the indoor environment becomes exponentially more toxic. And its a myth, windows dont do that much. the best thing you can do for energy efficiency is insulation. This was Obama giving even more tax money to 1 of the largest lobbying groups, the Chamber of Commerce aka the Building Industry. They wone BIG TIME w/ the stimulus Bill.....like major bigtime. He gave them 100s of billions in retroactive tax refunds for 5 years....hard cold cash that did absolutely nothing to create jobs.— November 17, 2010 11:31 p.m.
Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
I always like to look at the numbers breakdown after the election as well. Interesting that you only had 100,000 people vote for Supervisor total. Yet in this same election self proclaimed "low key prop C" that had NO campaign whatsoever and was put on the ballot by Pardee homes and was a proposition that would allow Pardee to continue to develop tract homes along highway 56 garnered over 164,000 votes FOR it. Prop C Pacific Highlands Ranch Development Votes % of Votes Yes 164097 70.29% No 69363 29.71% 100.0% Precincts Reporting Board of Supervisors District 4 Votes % of Votes Ron Roberts 57096 57.31% Stephen Whitburn 42537 42.69% 100.0% Precincts Reporting— November 17, 2010 11:25 p.m.
Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
Yeah however, from my research I believe Seiler's main strategy was dumping votes hence the professional ballot dumper Micheal Vu as her assistant. I dont think even w/ all the mail ins they had the ability to dump enough ballots for D to pass. It still received about 40% of the vote even though polls showed it w/ barely 25%. If you think about it w/ ballot dumping the registrar would have to prioritze what is most important because if you are dumping ballots for Whitburn, they may also be Yes on D ballots thus I think the Supervisors are always number 1 priority and D had so few yes votes to begin w/ tossing all the mail-ins didn't work.— November 17, 2010 11:15 p.m.
Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
I keep bringing up the election thing because it is key to their arrogance. they would be terrified of the public backlash if they didnt know they have the system under their control. People in San Diego are very very unhappy w/ their incumbents and yet they keep winning. Seiler was hired after donna frye won the mayoral race by a landslide. San Diego could not afford to have that sort of citizen uprising again so they had to gaurantee they could get the right people in office like Jerry Sanders (who did not even receive half as many votes as Donna did)— November 17, 2010 7:19 p.m.
Nov. 2 Memo Doesn't Mention Computer Glitch
Im sure its the same computer employees that work the Diebold Optical scanners. Com'on people this is a big component of this puzzle. We are never going to fix things until we acknowledge exactly how corrupt it is. Does anyone really believe every single Republican Supervisor has won re-election for the last 16-20 years in a row? Roberts and Horn are beginning their 17th year and coincidentally happen to be the boss of the registrar thus the lady running these computers. The arrogance of the city comes from the fact that they have every angle covered. we will never get them out of office because they rig the elections and they control Dumanis so we will never get an investigation and we will never elect them out so they can treat us this way w/o any concern. Do we really believe people voted for Hueaso in State assembly? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ive-got-iss…— November 17, 2010 7:16 p.m.
Bailouts of ailing states has ALREADY Begun
the problem is the people in charge...the Fed also known as Goldman Sachs has a HUGE conflict of interest....that is....they WANT to print money!!!!! We are like a 22 year old fresh out of college and they are the predatory bank trying to give us a $20,000 line of credit. Every dollar they print is pure profit so of course the Feds will swoop in to rescue the states. They have a license to print money and we dont. Thats the only diff. Most people dont know the federal reserve gets 4 cents for every dollar they print right off the bat. that doesnt even count the interest.— November 11, 2010 12:13 a.m.
Bailouts of ailing states has ALREADY Begun
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ive-got-iss… How the stimulus broke down....— November 11, 2010 12:08 a.m.
Bailouts of ailing states has ALREADY Begun
yep, I was calling my senators like crazy to get them to oppose the original bailouts and the stimulus. the interesting thing is that regardless of whether its a Repub or Dem the agenda is the same. With the Republicans its blatant Corporate Welfare w/ tax cuts or tax credits or retroactive refunds, w/ dems its indirect Corporate Welfare packaged as social welfare.....we have to give billions to companies to "keep" employees or to "create" jobs. The stimulus Bill which was its own giant bail-out was a HUGE bailout for housing developers. The BIA got everything they lobbied for it. The giant tax cuts to buys houses benefit who??? the developers sitting on the glut. the 250 billion in retroactive tax refunds aka hard cold cash benefit the companies that made HUGE profits prior to recession and now are losing $....hmmm who benefits from that? The developers. I was writing about it in the Reader. A few days later a story came out about a HUGE housing developer in Florida under Federal Investigation that was applying for the "retroactive" cash. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ive-got-iss… Anyway, my point is ALL these "bailouts" are ALL corporate bailouts that benefit the developers and the banks and reward all the "bad" behavior and punish all the "good" behavior. they are creating a country of criminals. its just bad parenting really.— November 11, 2010 12:04 a.m.