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Retire in San Diego! Juuust kidding.
And what will you do when Prop 13 is repealed? California Democrats have been salivating over that prospect for years. And make no mistake... as soon as it's repealed for businesses and "investment" properties, the huge amount of money "unfairly tied up" in primary residences will be too much to resist, and half of the opposition will be gone.— August 25, 2015 12:45 p.m.
San Diego's Section 8 drug and crime wave
Not surprising in Obama's Giveaway America. Work, self-reliance, saving, discipline? All for suckers! The world owes it all to you, and it owes you NOW, so go out and take what you deserve! Those you're taking it from are just rich, greedy sleazebags who have been abusing and oppressing you, so it's OK!— August 25, 2015 12:35 p.m.
Who can afford a house in California?
"Even the premise of affordability is somewhat skewed — in order to be able to "afford" a home, the study assumes that the typical buyer has a 20 percent down payment (about $62,000 for the San Diego median), has a strong credit history sufficient to qualify for a "prevailing" interest rate, and a lack of household debt sufficient to support budgeting 30 percent of one's pre-tax income for a housing payment." What, precisely, is "skewed" about that?!?! "Oh, it isn't fair for them to have to come up with so much down, they should be able to toss out some pocket change!" What then, especially when a 20% down significantly reduces the monthly payments? "Oh, get them into some government program to subsidize them, it's no fair they should have to make the payments on a 97% loan!" What about taxes, insurance, maintenance, etc? More government programs? The answer is LESS government. No more taxpayer-backing of mortgage loans. Without that magical backstop, lenders will only lend amounts people can actually repay, and that means house prices must go down. Government always distorts markets it enters, and government has very badly distorted housing to the point where $700,000 for a house seems downright reasonable, and if that's too much $500,000 is a downright bargain for a townhouse!— August 25, 2015 12:03 p.m.
Grand Deli Mike won't slam greedy landlords
"Greedy landlords"? Who here owns rental property, and rents it out for the same amount they would have received in 1960? Answer: nobody. The new owner of this building pays far greater property taxes (hey, let's end Prop 13 and have property owners pay even more, because it's all free money!). They will be paying horrendous amounts for permits. They'll be paying taxes on the rental income they receive. They'll constantly be bombarded with regulations and fees and higher costs by people screeching that they're what's wrong with America. And so prices will continue to go up, and the weak bleating of the left will continue. Want to see what used to be come back? Get rid of 90% of government. Let people earn a livelihood without confiscatory taxes and reams of paperwork and tangled webs of bureaucracy. Let businesses do business, and they'll make money and employ people and grow and buy more things. Or we can keep adding government and having more and more problems and uselessly blame those who are just trying to make a living.— August 21, 2015 12:23 p.m.
The Innocence Project wants to help wrongly accused
“California has a stereotype of being this hippie-granola-crunchy place. It’s really not. We have the largest death row in the United States with 743 death-row inmates. We have the most severe sentencing structure with three strikes. It’s the belly of the beast,” California has, by far, the biggest population in the nation. Over 10% of the nation's population lives here. 700-someodd death row denizens is nothing, and there are so many because we won't execute their sentences! As for "the most severe sentencing structure", BS! Our dauntless state Legislators and weepy, hand-wringing voters are constantly reducing the effectiveness of our penal system. We DON'T have a real Three Strikes system any more... we let all sorts of violent predators go all the time because what they were caught for this time wasn't quite bad enough. I'm tired of this silly, bleating nonsense about how we're just too rough on criminals. We aren't. We aren't nearly tough enough. repeat felons should be in prison for life. They should be making license plates or doing other hard labor. Instead, we weep over them, and try to "understand" them, and "show compassion", and cry about their poor childhoods, and give them endless second chances. It's no wonder why there are so many criminals... crime pays in this state!— August 19, 2015 12:55 p.m.
The Innocence Project wants to help wrongly accused
"The California Institution for Women in Chino is dusty and dilapidated. It looks like an abandoned high school outfitted with razor-wire-topped fencing and look-out towers with armed guards." It's a prison, not a spa or resort.— August 19, 2015 12:50 p.m.
Clairemont and Eastlake softball teams burgled
The City and County have no more business giving this team a few thousand dollars than it does giving the Chargers a few hundred million.— August 19, 2015 12:47 p.m.
Clairemont and Eastlake softball teams burgled
What's the worry? This is a "non-violent" crime! How many of you were in favor of AB109 or voted for Prop 47?— August 19, 2015 12:47 p.m.
City bites doggie daycare for $100K
"Locked in a prolix regulatory struggle with the city" "Prolix"???— August 19, 2015 12:37 p.m.
Fishy paint job for La Mesa catwalk
"Sometimes, local residents would be bothered by the noise of skateboarders or partying going on until late hours of the night." A paintball gun can take care of a problem like that.— August 17, 2015 3:51 p.m.