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Posted on October 27 at 8:17 p.m.
Joe Paterno will bring invaluable skills in running a board when he arrives on the School Board. This school board has a very dysfunctional manner and it has nearly cost the district its accreditation. Joe has a cool demeanor, and an articulate presentation, is thoughtful and very smart.
His years of working with the Workforce Board and Childcare of Southwest Florida and in other areas fundamentally supportive of the working class would be a terrific asset. He brings with him the backing of a larger community network and an understanding of the context in which our educational system needs to perform.
The children and families will be very fortunate when Joe Paterno is elected to the School Board.
On Election 2008: Teacher, executive director vie for Collier School Board seat
Posted on October 19 at 1:16 p.m.
Redistribution of wealth was the primary goal of the Bush and Cheney years. Far from trickle down it was more like a pyramid scheme ensuring those at the top got disproportionately more from those in the middle class. Where do you think all the growth in our productivity went when it failed to be translated into greater wages? Where did all those trillions of dollars go when they disappeared? Granted much was always illusionary like referring to the credit card debt of Americans as wealth...because it increased spending power...but wealth to whom?
"One [hedge fund] manager — John Paulson of Paulson & Co. — earned $3.7 billion last year, which management consultant Peter Cohan pointed out means Paulson in 2007 made 30 times in one hour what the median family made all year.
Driven in part by fees hedge fund managers are making, income inequality in 2007 was at the highest level since 1928, the year before the Great Depression began." http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/0...
The Republican notion of redistributing the wealth was by stealing from the pockets of the working class and giving it to the wealthy through legislation such as reducing the taxes on the wealthy, eliminating safeguards and regulations on the finance industry and so on.
The crashing sound you hear and feel in your life savings is the failed Bush policies shared by McCain.
Applause to the NDN for taking this bold step and showing an understanding of the real issues in this campaign.
Posted on October 15 at 9:05 a.m.
It appears the article omitted a salient point. The only parcels to be included in the taxing district are those along Fifth Ave. South between 3rd St South and Ninth. The owners of the property in this area are collectively investing in themselves. As Fifth Avenue South businesses thrive, the property on the street should retain its value and emerge as a vibrant Naples experience.
It is up to a vote of the land owners on Fifth whether or not to participate in self taxing for the good of the Street.
Posted on September 26 at 3:37 p.m.
85,000,000,000 / 200,000,000 = 425
Posted on September 23 at 12:03 p.m.
Please find a way to televise this online. Many of us cannot be there but want to follow this important story that.
This is a part of the financial privatization policy that has stolen so much value from the tax payers already. Enough is enough.
On Urban Land Institute, Collier EDC to host Alligator Alley program
Posted on September 23 at 11:59 a.m.
The problem is the thousands of homeowners who are expected to be going into foreclosure daily. Eight thousand more homes are expected to go into foreclosure right here in Collier County by the end of the year. As this plays out over the coming years, the value of real estate nationally is going to continue to fall.
The reason there is a call for an immediate bailout of $700 billion dollars is because the financial powerhouses want to get their money before we figure out how deep a mess they have created.
We should NOT bail them out quickly, if at all. The financial wheels have already come off. Our decision is whether to bail out the millionaires or to figure out a better method of taking over control of and cleaning up the mess they made. We need to create an agency, perhaps using the $700 million to create a workable solution for the homeowners to ease the pace of the foreclosures.
By slowing the bleeding and developing a plan to stabilize the housing market and home ownership we will do far more to rebuild confidence because it will be based on actual, transparent and fundamentally sound principles. The financial well being of our country is in the balance.
The private financial industry has shown that it cannot be trusted. It sees its primary fiduciary responsibility is to the stockholders and not the homeowners. It has failed both, but comes to us the taxpayers to bail them out. The taxpayers’ primary fiduciary responsibility is to the tax payers. Buying bad debt and getting worthless debt is not in our best interest. But setting up an agency to help homeowners is.
On Bush team urges Congress to pass $700 billion bailout for Wall Street
Posted on September 22 at 1:36 p.m.
Based on these phone conversation dates, where does hiring the Hinshaw and Culbertson firm come in?
Posted on September 22 at 11:02 a.m.
I have a bad feeling about this. Failure to adequately plan on their part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
The problem is the thousands of homeowners who are expected to be going into foreclosure daily. Eight thousand more homes are expected to go into foreclosure right here in Collier County by the end of the year. As this plays out over the coming years, the value of real estate nationally is going to continue to fall.
The reason there is a call for an immediate bailout of $700 billion dollars is because the financial powerhouses want to get their money before we figure out how deep a mess they have created.
We should NOT bail them out quickly, if at all. The financial wheels have already come off. Our decision is whether to bail out the millionaires or to figure out a better method of taking over control of and cleaning up the mess they made. We need to create an agency, perhaps using the $700 million to create a workable solution for the homeowners to ease the pace of the foreclosures.
By slowing the bleeding and developing a plan to stabilize the housing market and home ownership we will do far more to rebuild confidence because it will be based on actual, transparent and fundamentally sound principles. The financial well being of our country is in the balance.
The private financial industry has shown that it cannot be trusted. It sees its primary fiduciary responsibility is to the stockholders and not the homeowners. It has failed both, but comes to us the taxpayers to bail them out. The taxpayers’ primary fiduciary responsibility is to the tax payers. Buying bad debt and getting worthless debt is not in our best interest. But setting up an agency to help homeowners is.
Posted on September 16 at 7:06 p.m.
“Markets work best at solving problems ... instead of regulation,” said Mark Delegal, an attorney for Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar in Tallahassee, whose biggest client is State Farm and also represents the Florida Chamber of Commerce. “I have confidence in Wall Street, not withstanding what has happened in the last 48 hours.”
This man is paid huge sums of money as a lobbyist for the clients mentioned above. Big money is still backing deregulation in spite of the catastrophic implosion on Wall Street. Mark virtually ranted about believing in free markets today like some kind of zealot. There is nothing magical about free markets. There is no invisible hand as if God was guiding the glory of the dollar. In fact, I suspect, this is her wrath we are witnessing at the unmitigated greed of the powerful trampling on the working class.
Let the brokerage firms eat cake for a change. We will all survive and perhaps develop a more sustainable economic system.
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Posted on October 27 at 8:49 p.m.
The failed ideology that fed off the suckers born every minute and relied on the greed of the middlemen was never sustainable.
Those who profited most are long gone. Those who mastered the art of leveraging and played banker or better yet owned the banks set up a high risk shell game. Now you see the equity in this house, now you don't. Which shell is the righteous mortgage under and which conceals the sub-prime?
The bankers sold off the mortgages for a profit as soon as they closed on them. The mortgage brokers and the realtors got their commissions sucked out of the pathetic buyers inflated home appraisal.
And the home buyer, the sucker, got left with the shell with nothing underneath it.
This is called capitalism. The invisible hand that perfects the marketplace is like the wizard behind the curtain in Oz. We have been tricked into buying into the game of risk by shysters.
We will come up with a sustainable system. It will be egalitarian. It will minimize the winners and losers and aim for an equilibrium that is based on forging community rather than hyped up ultra-competitive self-serving rip-off artists.
We will evolve a family centered economic system that respects the dignity of workers and is based on humanitarian principles. We will no longer agree that it is okay to deny healthcare to children or to anyone in need. We will learn that what has real value in life is not whether I have more money than you, but how we can cooperate in friendship and fellowship and genuine compassion.
We have no choice. Our eyes are opening to the suffering the unsustainable economic system has wrought.
On Golden Gate Estates seeing hundreds of foreclosures thanks to dwindling economy