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ParticipantFrankly, tough patooties. Working with people who have paid their debt to society and are being reintegrated is part of the price you have to pay for living in a relatively free and just society.
Not all crime is violent, even if it appears so at first glance. The guy in the article was essentially arrested for being poor and convicted of contempt of cop. What about someone caught with drugs at age 20 who’s now 30? Or how about someone who got in a bar fight while drunk, punched someone the wrong way, they hit their head and died resulting in a felony manslaughter record?
Yet plenty of people get into bar fights with non-lethal results without anything going on to their record. Oftentimes, a conviction might just be bad luck.
I’d agree with you about a very narrow subset of premeditated violent crime (premeditated murder, grievous bodily harm, rape), but most people who have problems getting a job due to their records were convicted of much less serious crimes.
Proposed solution:
(1) Forbid private sale of criminal background check data, which is often inaccurate or lists arrests even absent conviction. Police agencies should be the only source for such data, and should be required to hold arrests without convictions confidential. Innocent till proven guilty, you know.
(2) Require the subject’s notarized signature to release such data. Nothing gets released without explicit consent.
(3) Only allow employers to ask for such authorization after a job offer is made. The fines for violating this rule should be steep.ParticipantFucking blackmail, abetted by Goldman Sucks slime:
City of San Diego should tell the Chargers, “build it yourselves or don’t let the door hit you in your steroid-addled arse.”
ParticipantThe way our economy is set up, we actually do need other countries, like it or not. This isn’t 1954.
The other thing about millennials is that they’re not popping sprogs at the same rate as other generations. Fewer kids, meaning they can either share, live with parents, or rent for longer vs buying property.
ParticipantNot new:
Unlikely that they’ll be charging the kind of people this program will attract “great rates.” Gotta make up for something somehow.
Participantflu: There are condos in the $200s and $300s, and why would you necessarily pay all cash?
Dave: what about SESD as close to the Gaslamp as you can approach?
ParticipantThe good thing for us is that crashes generally happen when least expected. As far as (2), I’m not so sure. Why else did they put conditions in place to create high levels of margin debt? Remember, the wealthy are in charge and the wealthy profit most from blessed corrections. A hard correction every few years is exactly what the wealthy want to keep the rabble and schmucks poor and them in gains.
ParticipantGood thing is that it peaked in March of 2001. Here’s hoping for a reeeeePEAT of 2001 in March 2015. Here’s to chaos and reeeeeeeeCESSION!
Today’s data:
Sheepsumer spending — down, babeh, down!
Manufacturing — down!
QE — dead, buried, and in rotting in hell where it belongs.ParticipantSearch on Ocean Beach property — looks like there are quite a few properties below $750k that might flip for more if the flipping thread is correct.
ParticipantIf you think the gentrification will continue, why not look into buying property there instead of staring jealously?
ParticipantWhy? Not every area has to become suburbanized white-bread boring and expensive.
ParticipantIt’s a good thing that it’s a “dump.” That perception keeps more gentrifying rabble out 🙂
ParticipantThen you have cases like this:
I have it one good authority that Verizon is a shitty firm to work for and has inept management. That someone might be driven to argue with their superiors is understandable.
He lost his job. Then jerkwater cops came to arrest him for unpaid child support. Something happened, and he ended up charged with, and pleading to “resisting arrest.” (Which can be something as simple as being rude to a cop.)
Sadly, a lot of Americans are credulous and don’t THINK that cops could ever make up or embellish charges. Especially in small rural NJ towns where the justice system doesn’t have anything better to do than to fuck with people’s lives.
ParticipantIt’s not just men — when my family had a shore house in NJ, the town had quite a lot of grumpy, slightly insane cat ladies. Joint problems generally come from obesity — I see men in their 70s and 80s skiing. If one doesn’t eat like a grunting hog and exercises regularly, it usually doesn’t come to that.
ParticipantBeing retired and living in a community surrounded by other grumpy old men is my personal definition of gehenna. I’d rather be in a city, surrounded by the young, not codgers on mobility scooters.
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