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All good points. To your points:
- I’d be willing to customize the solution on the credit card rates, as follows:
- Your debt is too high, therefore you cannot manage your credit, therefore, you are no longer allowed to use credit.
- In exchange, the U. S. government will purchase your outstanding debt and transform it into a 10% (or so) term loan.
- For the consumer’s part of the bargain, they can’t borrow again until their term loan is paid off.
- The govt will help them find additional work to pay off the loan sooner.
Bernie Sanders is in town to lend his presence to support Proposition 40.
Katie Porter is against it, so is Newsom. Ro Khanna of Santa Clara thinks it is a swell idea.
Senator Bernie Sanders holds rally supporting Prop. 40, CA billionaire tax proposal in SF
A social experiment that bureaucrats will diminish because it does not fit their view of the problem and how to fix it. Not sure where the times got its number, but its about half of what is actually spent on solving the homeless problem.
I think a big part of the issue is that the leaders of the non-profits helping the homeless are incentivized to remain in business. They do juuuuuuust enough to justify their continuing existence.
Turns out Democrats are shunning AOC because of her Progressive ways.
Democrats are suddenly shunning AOC, report says. Here’s why.
My brother bought a house on SW 43rd in Portland on a part-time bartender’s salary a few decades ago. Then, he met his wife, and she convinced him to leave Portland for Carlsbad where he is now a public defender.
Here’s a different approach to homeless housing in Portland. Costs 1/40th what government programs do:
The Homeless Community in Portland That Became Self-Governed – The New York Times
SF Bay Area Black, Latino and other disadvantaged youths appear to be improving academically:
2024–25 California Statewide Assessment Results – Year 2025 (CA Dept of Education)
Californians likely know Harris and Newsom better than those outside of the state. Both have been in the California eye ever since Willie Brown helped both of them.
Brown helped Kamala Harris first. In addition to dating her as a married man in 1994, he also appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later to the California Medical Assistance Commission.<sup id=”cite_ref-latimes-brown-harris_31-1″ class=”mw-ref reference” data-mw=”{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"latimes-brown-harris"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-latimes-brown-harris-31"}}”></sup>
Brown then appointed Newsom to San Francisco’s Parking and Traffic Commission in San Francisco in 1996 (just seven years after he graduated from Santa Clara) and then appointed Newsom to a vacant spot on the City’s Board of Supervisors. Newsom ran on his own for the SF Board of Supervisors in 1998 and won.
Anyway, a recent Cal-Berkeley poll shows that 37% of Californians prefer Newsom as presidential candidate, down from 48% in March. This was followed by an even larger drop by Harris who was at 41% in March, but fell to 28% earlier this month.
The poll also shows that 61% of Californians would be excited about Newsom, while less than 45% are excited about Harris.
Poll reveals where Californians stand on Gavin Newsom v Kamala Harris
I remember Jimmy Carter did the same with his daughter Amy. She went to DC public schools (grade school and middle school) for four years, then went to Woodward Academy in College Park, GA before she went to Brown…where she flunked out.
Kamala’s longtime competitor, Gavin Newsom, is urging her to make a decision early. The “will-she-or-won’t-she” waffling benefits Kamala, because people are less likely to look at her critically. Interestingly, Newsom told Jake Tapper in an interview recorded a month ago that if Kamala Harris decided to run, Newsom wouldn’t run. I wonder if he’s seeking a graceful out?
As for the reasoning behind Newsom’s startling comment, one Democratic strategist not aligned with either camp thinks that Newsom is trying to isolate Harris from potential donors in an effort to get the potential donors to convince Harris not to run…which many of them have said they’ll never support Harris again.
Newsom’s Kamala Harris pledge sparks doubts among Democrats
Some Democrats are saying that if Harris doesn’t run, Newsom will get credit for looking deferential AND her endorsement will be the most coveted in the primary.
Master stroke for Newsom? Maybe…he’s had four trips to South Carolina, he clearly intends to run.
Seattle progressives might have the answer to high home prices. Increase taxes and fees to the point where homeowners are leaving and no one is moving in. Can you say supply and demand? Lots of inventory, low demand, prices fall.
That’s basically what happened in Detroit. Population went from 2.1 million to 678,000, and Presto! You have over 100,000 unoccupied residences.
I was at a diner one morning in East Detroit, and the waitress asked if I could close out her bill because she wanted to join her son at his house closing. I agreed, and we started talking specifics. I asked her what he did for a living, and she said “barrista” and that he was buying a small house, two bedrooms, two baths, in East Indian village — an area that wasn’t the best, but far from the worst — and he was paying $35,000. For the whole house. With fixtures, electrical, plumbing and everything.
So you can serve coffee for a living in Detroit and buy a house. All you have to do is drive out 1.4 million homeowners. And Socialists definitely know how to get rid of people.
It’s uncanny how accurate my prediction was. I gave it 12 months. Here we are 10 months later and Newsom is of course being investigated by the DOJ. So fucking predictable. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/gavin-newsom-trump-doj-investigation-california.html
Yeah, but here’s the thing…Newsom is filthy. His travel and some personal expenses are (a) being paid by companies with State of California contracts and (b) he is directing donors to bundle funding donations to these companies, including (c) his left-over ina
Feds zero in on Gavin Newsom’s travel, personal spending in DOJ probe
Thirty years ago, Fetterman would have been considered a typical Democrat. That party has drifted so far left, he seems almost obscenely conservative, at least from the point of view of the Israel/Jewish-hating Democratic Left.
To that point, the Democrats might not do as well in the mid-terms as they think:
Democrats might win in the midterms — but a whole new set of problems await
Senate candidate El-Sayed says he’s not a Muslim Socialist.
I learned a new term today “Functional Unemployment Rate.” It is also known as the “True Unemployment Rate.” It combines the traditional unemployment rate (quite low right now, dropping last month to 4.1% from 4.2%), with the part-time employment rate (but among people seeking full-time employment), with those earning a poverty wage (wage below the poverty level).
This measure, developed by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, had its fourth consecutive increase in July, now at 24.9% overall.
Even more interesting to me is that their measure of the working-age population NOT functionally employed (including those who have dropped out of the labor force) hit 53.8%, up 0.8% since January.
For black workers, the functional unemployment rate is 27.3%. For Hispanic workers, it is 26.7%.
For men, the rate dropped 0.9% to 19.5%; but for women, it jumped 1.6% to 31%, marking the highest level women have seen since March, 2021.
LISER states that the AI boom has sparked a massive demand for construction workers, extraction workers, and other workers in skilled trades. Secondly, there’s been a crisis in family care service and AI is causing companies to reduce white collar employment, so women are pulling out of the labor market.
- I’d be willing to customize the solution on the credit card rates, as follows:
