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ross53	quote Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:15 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Possible buy out of Albertsons??? Supervalu, which operates stores under the Albertsons and Jewel-Osco names, declined comment, saying it does not comment on rumor or speculation. http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN1215087820100312?rpc=44 _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:50 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	A solution to Health Care.....??? "You’ve got a place to live and ... a prison system providing nursing facility-type care,” she said. “And you live in a community.” http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/30/robber-says-he-did-it-to-go-back-to-prison/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:48 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Food Stamp advocates criticize county working group Oswald, who said he is to be part of the working group, said county officials have tried to “take off the table” for discussion several controversial requirements to receiving benefits, including that adult recipients be fingerprinted and that county officials inspect recipients' homes. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/10/food-stamp-advocates-criticize-county-working-grou/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:19 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Lawsuit filed against sales tax proposition http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/19/lawsuit-filed-against-sales-tax-proposition/ Inept leadership plus mismanagement equals financial crises.Keeping things the way they are and increase taxes will not solve the problem. Under the current economic environment “we the people” need our money No reason to give more to inept City leaders. The solutions, REDUCE YOUR STIPEND AND BENEFITS INCLUDING PENSIONS! _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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hawk	quote Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:42 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	I am now in my 60's and for most of my life a union worker for a big grocery chain could raise a family on one salary. For so many reasons, starting in the 1970s, this model starting falling apart. For the food stores, I think the big blow was in the de-skilling of the butcher and meat counter jobs. They were the "skilled trades" of the grocery stores. Computer scanning of cashier efficiencies and bar coding allowed head office to have more control over individual stores. For me, the one event that showed that everything changed was when Reagan destroyed PATCO. He showed how easy it could be done and how the other big unions would sit back and let it happen. Other people will have other milestones. We need a new flood of local community based organizations. It will need to be something like the IWW or the radical parts of the Catholic church or a rebirth of the old socialist groups. The big unions can not be reformed. Far too rotten and past their best before date.
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ross53	quote Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:39 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Roots of sales-tax hike lie in city pension increases Key votes in 1996 and 2002 boosted top 20 pensions by 176 percent The deals struck by labor leaders and city officials in 1996 and 2002 created a financial windfall for thousands of city workers, some of whom enjoy double or triple the pensions they would have under the previous program, according to an analysis of pension records by The Watchdog. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/21/Pension-decisions-more-than-doubled-payouts/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:28 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	They are the poster children of San Diego’s broken pension system, 20 people who worked for the city in one capacity or another and now collect more money for not working than most people earn in a year. Or two. ....for many residents and taxpayers, the idea of writing $12,000 checks to former city workers every month for the rest of their lives is untenable. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/23/top-20-pensioners-cite-city-service/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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SharynS	quote Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:30 pm
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2883 Location: the 'puter	On a scale of right and wrong, I would think resident and taxpayer concerns perfectly legit. This particular pension scam is not rocket science, the system was abused, is being abused. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie
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ross53	quote Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:21 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Pension nightmare’s roots, and Prop. D By Union-Tribune Editorial Board, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at midnight No wonder the city has $2.1 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. No wonder the cost of pensions has gone from 7 percent of the operating budget in 2002 to 21 percent this year and will soar to 47 percent in 2025 unless more changes are made beyond the reforms achieved by Mayor Jerry Sanders in recent years. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/24/pension-nightmares-roots-and-prop-d/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:39 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	San Diego Food Bank reports requests for food at all-time high Layoffs, bankruptcies and other economic woes are leading causes http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/28/more-county-seeking-donated-food/ Postal center could become shelter The proposed center would operate much like a commune, providing the jobless and working poor with food, shelter and other basic necessities — sometimes in exchange for menial tasks. Among it’s tenets, according to board member Steve Powell, is that “people who want to work should not be living on the sidewalk.” http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/31/postal-center-could-become-homeless-shelter/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:28 am
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Labor Day ain't what it used to be .....you have to wonder what Labor Day 2010 means when union employees, a fifth of California’s workforce, are widely viewed as the enemies of the economy? http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/columnists/logan-jenkins/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:30 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	SD Target stores start selling fresh produce Eleven San Diego County Targets now offer an expanded grocery department, with four more coming in the next two months. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/ My question to anyone: Does anyone know what the UFCW is doing to unionize Target? _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:03 pm
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Aguirre: San Diego is bankrupt By Craig Gustafson, UNION-TRIBUNE Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 5:28 p.m. Former San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre is urging city leaders to freeze retirement benefits for workers and enter bankruptcy as a way to erase a $2.1 billion pension deficit. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/07/aguirre-san-diego-is-bankrupt/ _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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ross53	quote Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:46 am
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1434 Location: california	Feds drop appeal in San Diego pension case Judge’s ruling threw out indictment against five former members of the city's pension system By Greg Moran Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:34 a.m. SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego has decided not to appeal a judge’s ruling that threw out the indictment against five former members of the San Diego pension system. Related San Diego pension case will be appealed Five cleared in San Diego pension case DA drops prosecution of S.D. pension officials Five in pension board case have charges dismissed Late Monday, prosecutors filed a notice with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saying it has decided to drop the appeal of a decision in April by Judge Roger Benitez that dismissed the long-running case. The filing did not give a reason for abandoning the appeal. The government had indicted former pension system officials Lawrence Grissom and Lorrain Chapin, former board members and city employees Cathy Lexin and Theresa Webster, and former firefighters union leader Ronald Saathoff on charges of conspiracy, honest services wire fraud and mail fraud. Benitez ruled the honest services fraud law was unconstitutionally vague as it was being applied in this case. The five were initially indicted in 2006, and a second indictment adding charges was filed in late 2008. The charges centered on a sequence of events in 2002 and 2003 that contributed to the city’s pension deficit. Prosecutors contended that the defendants supported a city plan to put less money into the retirement system than needed in return for enhanced retirement benefits and a special retirement benefit for Saathoff. Federal prosecutors had said that amounted to a violation of a law that makes it a crime for public officials to deprive citizens of the officials’ honest public services. Benitez found that the federal honest services fraud law “failed to give these defendants fair warning that their conduct could violate the federal mail and wire fraud statutes.” greg.moran@uniontrib.com • (619) 293-1236 Opinion. Its the Pension Stupid!!!! Proving honest services' fraud probably would depend upon a particular judges' proclivities at any particular time. Another judge may have viewed this case differently. But conspiracy, public policy, and, as time goes by, force majeure seem appropriate and demonstrable. I don't know why the attorneys failed on conspiracy when intent of like-minded benefiting parties is so evident. I also don't know why any experienced attorney would not have at least added public policy to the causes. Surely there is an inherent public policy that cities cannot be put in such financial jeopardy that public safety is sacrificed. Finally, force majeure is demonstrable through sound projections verified by financial experts and would show that pension contributions by the city would eat up the plural portion of the city's revenue within a few years, again putting the city in such dire straits that public safety is sacrificed. In the final analysis, we again find that we had a bunch of greedy city managers scheming to increase their already generous pensions, a compliant city council, and a pension board loaded with self-dealers, and the taxpaying public were NEVER represented. Some of the greedy are already retired, pulling down those fat pensions. Even one of the no-good city council members who voted for the increased pensions, Toni Atkins, has the nerve to run for an assembly seat in November. Let’s see how many voters in the 76th district are knowledgeable enough to keep her from doing as much damage to the state as she has to our city. _________________ " I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody" Lilly Tomlin.
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SharynS	quote Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:57 am
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2883 Location: the 'puter	That's it? The criminals go free and the public is on the hook for the cost of the crime and however much it cost for the legal process to clear their names? _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie
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