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Raze the arena?
I've got my tickets!— October 15, 2014 9:49 a.m.
Hard time city
I wonder what would happen if Sacramento decided to stop punishing businesses and instead implemented tax and regulatory policies aimed at encouraging job growth, economic activity, and an overall friendly business environment. We should have a government that's a symbiotic, not a greedy parasite.— October 2, 2014 2:20 p.m.
Scum of the earth shoots parrot
Makes me think of the guy who's running around shooting peacocks in Rolling Hills Estates near Long Beach. I truly hope all of them are found and punished as heavily as possible.— October 2, 2014 2:09 p.m.
Water worry: avocados
Many years ago, my mom's house was surrounded by avocado trees. It was built in the middle of an orchard and was surrounded by working orchards. My parents would call a local avocado company, they'd drop off bins, and we spent weekends filling the bins. When water simply became too expensive, we had to stop watering the trees. The orchard behind us shut down, all the trees were cut down, and there are rows of houses there now. Across the valley and in many nearby areas, huge swaths of trees are being cut. It's kind of sad. I do miss the old days. On the one hand, people should be more important than avocados that can be imported from somewhere else. But I'm just not a fan of seeing how many people we can pack into SoCal. Honestly, I'd like to see the price of water and housing and electricity drive half of them back to Nebraska or Oklahoma.— October 2, 2014 2:06 p.m.
Manufacturing: wages good but jobs down
Just think where we could be if we had a sensible state government that wasn't actively engaged in a war against business and success and jobs?— October 2, 2014 2:02 p.m.
Qualcomm does Koch
I'd rather have the market "distorted" by money from those who have succeeded in life than by those looking for more free handouts. If you want to say that "billionaires" cannot spend their money as they see fit, why should anyone else be able to make any political contributions? Would you support cutting off enormous labor unions, George Soros, various liberal PACs, etc? Or is it only Republican / conservative money that's the problem to you?— October 2, 2014 1:56 p.m.
San Diego stadium, convention center lies you will hear
If the cost to keep the Chargers in San Diego is hundreds of millions of our tax dollars, then that cost is too high. Let them go. But, oddly, the chargers carp and whine and complain like they have for YEARS... yet they aren't going anywhere. Study after study after study has proven that public funding of sports stadia is ALWAYS a net loser for the taxpayer. And it isn't hard to understand why... whatever amount of economic activity can be DIRECTLY attributed to a new stadium is not what we need to look at... maybe 10% of that figure is, as that's what gets left on the table as taxes and actual revenue. If you take, say, $750 million and amortize that over 30 years with interest, how much is the annual debt service? Far more than the actual dollars the City pulls in. You can't argue on the one side that we should count all sorts of nebulous "economic benefits" as revenue when you can't use those dollars to actually pay the debt on the other side. Further, why is it that when the taxpayers fought up the majority of the funding for a football stadium, there's never a big break for the taxpayers? Much lower ticket prices, discounted parking, affordable concessions. No... we're expected to pay for most of it, and then we're expected to pay full freight for attending games. And that's simply a non-styarter. So, no on public funding for a new stadium. The Chargers are extremely profitable, they can afford to buy land and build their own stadium. Let those who want the Chargers around pay for them. Let the Chargers raise prices, institute a PSL, sell bonds, hold a bake sale, whatever, so everyone who wants to keep them around can directly support their team. But leave me out of it. I don't care. I'll happily watch them on TV from LA or Timbuktu.— September 24, 2014 4:14 p.m.
Gold-standard environmentalism sought
Funny how addressing "global climate change" always means higher taxes and more government for developed Western nations which are already at the forefront of fighting pollution while studiously ignoring the pollution billowing out of the Third World. Or how the pseudo-scientific Global Warming High Priesthood focuses like a laser on slight aberrations in 150 years of recorded weather data while studiously ignoring hundreds of millions of years of climatic history involving long periods with temperatures much higher or lower than today, with nary a human being or Bush or Koch to blame! How many iGadgets did this crowd have, all made of electronic parts and batteries that came from polluting factories and mines in China? How many of them blame high gas prices on oil companies, when government makes approximately eight times as much money from gas as the oil companies, and "cap and trade" taxes are set to increase our gas prices another $.15 to $.75 per gallon next year? How many will be out protesting "greed" and demanding subsidies and price controls before roaring away in their SUVs?— September 22, 2014 3:30 p.m.
Cool ride, Big Brother
Police states do not appear overnight... one day everything is normal, the next jack-booted stormtroopers are kicking in the doors of "unreliables". It always starts in the name of "safety". It always starts with well-meaning people who really believe that giving government just a little more power is no big deal, don't pay attention to what happened everywhere else, it can't happen here! Stuff like this happened in Germany in 1934, and a lot of good and decent people cheered. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.— September 22, 2014 3:24 p.m.
I never wear the same thing twice
Even Jack Reacher wears the same clothes for a few days before dumping them and buying new!— September 22, 2014 3:19 p.m.