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Graphic designer, eh?
In every generation, you have 5% to 10% of the folks who like art. And so wages are low, becuse there are too many people willing to work for low pay in order to have an enjoyable job. The answer? Follow the money. Forget those rock band posters (unless you are R. Black). No... go to Washington, and start making art for the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR F-35 fighter jet program. The gift that keeps on giving. Art for the Pentagon, for PowerPoint presentations to sell this junker to Congress. Art for Lockheed Martin, also to sell this junker to Congress. Art for tech manuals, endless tech manuals, for fifty years to come. Art for all the sub-contractors who are lined up to get a piece of this bonanza. Hey, it's your tax money! Also good? Art for IPO stock market presentations. Those exciting brochures with all the little graphs going straight up, like the F-35 on afterburners, before an unfortunate flameout. Tight deadlines always mean great money, and IPO folks have a lot of money to burn at the start of a hustle. Get some! Don't want to move to DC or NY? Well. Go to the Del Mar National horse show this April, meet the folks, and sell a few equine portraits, like of Mitt Romney's Rafalca before it lost at the Olympics and was shipped to a catfood factory in Donetsk...— February 25, 2015 3:44 p.m.
Manpower sees mild job market in first quarter 2014
Don -- read a letter you wrote about low-wage WalMart actually being subsidized by the taxpayers (move the employees onto Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc.) Obviously, not just WalMart. Many large corporations do this, right? But before we decide this is bad, a question -- Have we actually invented the next evolution of capitalism here? Or a new evolution of socialism, depending on you're point of view? Subsidy by all taxpayers so that large companies can keep selling us stuff at low cost -- because part of what would normally be decent wages & benefits are picked up by all of us? Again, with the benefit to all of us, rich and poor alike, of cheap prices? Marx & Lenin believed that capitalism would self-destruct. But we sure are inventive... mail order, credit cards, internet sales, and now this... it's better than QE! Jon Donahue— December 12, 2013 10:09 p.m.
Filner, Goldsmith met today: reports
Surprised that Filner hasn't counterattacked -- after all, this is just a ploy to dump him and open the door for a $1 billion Charger stadium hustle... and a Manchester end-of-Broadway mega development. If I were he, I would also challenge the legality of the recall in court, before the signatures are even collected. Would also use my Washington contacts to get the FBI looking into all this for blatant corruption, payoffs to Goldsmith, Gloria, et al. Isn't Scam Diego a kick! It never stops, does it! Jon— August 21, 2013 12:39 a.m.
San Diego, one of the five richest cities in the U.S. Wow. Details?
Wow! Thanks, Don -- and everyone else who contributed to this thread! So many neat cities, so little time. Big news for me -- that Charleston SC has a US-average cost-of-living. It is a VERY beautiful city. Also, that there are so many nice alternatives to big-city living. And shocked that Detroit homes average only $71,000. For anyone worried that we still might be headed for another big crash, there's Eugene and Salem up in Oregon... nice enough, and you can grow anything in the Willamette river valley...— October 25, 2012 4:01 a.m.
San Diego, one of the five richest cities in the U.S. Wow. Details?
Don -- tell me there's a 'sweet spot' somewhere. Our top-earning cities, like Washington and San Jose (and San Diego) are wildly overpriced and overcrowded. Our lowest-earning cities, like Brownsville, aren't places where anybody in their right mind would go to live. Anyplace in the middle? With jobs, low crime levels, and a reasonable amount of educated people, but not so many as to be Starbucks-insufferable? Not completely congested? In that regard, I think cities built before automobiles are far better for walking... anyway, any ideas?— October 5, 2012 10:43 p.m.
San Diegans on bringing in the feds
It will take a few 'Occupy Rancho Santa Fe' days to start sorting things out in San Diego. Or perhaps 'Occupy Mille Fleurs'. However, nokomisjeff, you could hedge this dismal future by creating a new soft drink (or beer) called '99%' ... which of course would sell for 99 cents.— October 18, 2011 2:31 p.m.
San Diegans on bringing in the feds
nokomisjeff wrote -- "Remember, there's two kinds of people in the world, those who pay interest and those who collect it." Well, I'm part of a third group, trying to follow the old saying: "Neither a borrower or lender be." I don't see Wall Street acting in my interest. Perhaps we need a tax on every stock and hedge-fund transaction, to repatriate some of the money to the government where it can be used for the public good.— October 17, 2011 7:44 p.m.
San Diegans on bringing in the feds
Here, as elsewhere, the 1% super-rich have sucked up so much money that their middle-class workers no longer can afford homes. The rich have shot the golden goose. It's dead. They sent the good jobs to Asia to get short-term profits. New home sales, my key prosperity measure, are toast. If we can't re-distribute wealth peacefully, this country's going to blow up. If CEO > janitor income ratios can't get more like Japan or Denmark, the greedy 1% will simply have their wealth confiscated by desperate people.— October 16, 2011 8:11 p.m.
Case-Shiller Data Suggest Possible Housing Double-Dip
Don, wherever you are living now, could you please write another book, along the lines of 'Rancho Scama Fe, America's Crookedest White-Collar Crime Town?' Seems to me that over the years I've read a LOT of your articles about RSF criminals... certainly enough for an amusing and informative book? Not to mention the Heavens Gate folks, who, after all, were 'just renters', according to an RSF realtor. Enjoyed 'Captain Money and the Golden Girl' years ago... PLEASE write another one! FYI, self-publishing is now really moving along, with Lightning Source and Espresso Book Machines... easy now to write and distribute a book while printing only on demand... Jon Donahue http://jon404.com— March 30, 2011 2:15 a.m.