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| Dear Editor, SD Union Tribune 8/13 I find it ironic that right below the article Trade Def. 3rd-highest in history (8/13 C-5), there is a picture of oil well being drilled. Also ironic is that this land of �Free Enterprise� is calling for tariffs on imports and/or the China to change the value of their currency. Hey! get a clue, stop buying everything from overseas! IE; Wal-Mart, Target, and Home Depot products. First we steal the land (via redevelopment eminent domain) for these mega retailers, and then we let them become the world�s powerhouse stores by selling foreign made goods that use foreign drawn energy. In the letter I wrote to Pres. Bush the night of his inaugural speech, I asked him to look at alternative energy generation like bio-diesel which can be made at home as well as refined commercially (see website FreedomPlease.org). Note that trains and trucks run on diesel. The letter also mentioned the growing trade deficit which I suggest is the U.S.'s greatest threat. |
| We need discipline in the U.S. We need to get back to ingenuity and tangible manufacturing rather than just service and one-time use items. Reduce (save your money), Re-use (lessen landfill use) and Recycle (less energy to manufacture). We can�t afford to forget who we were: those that invented, produced, and improved stuff. Not just those who would be lead around by the nose to feed on what ever someone had to offer.Our recent false economy; housing growth jobs, is soon going to end with the workers not having enough to survive. When we can�t afford the homes, fuel, and products then where will we be able to go? Please understand most nations don�t let everyone in like we do. And when they have the funds we will find out everything is for sale: property (Rockefeller plaza), oil (UNICAL), and even people (sex slaves/politicians). Sincerely yours, Daniel Beeman 619.847.4695 Clairemont http://www.geocities.com/daniel_beeman (for ltr to Pres. Bush) (3897 Caminito Aguilar Dr. San Diego, CA 92111) |
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| As I get time I will add more letters editors have printed by myself. |
| LETTERS SD CITYBEAT 9/14/05 Feedback from our readers It will hurt To Ms. Beak: I need you to re-read your own article [�San Diego Munch,� Aug. 24]. If 62 percent of homebuyers opting for interest-only loans (especially as interest rates are going up one-quarter percent each month) and 80 percent of recent home purchasers using adjustable rate mortgages for financing isn�t insanity, then what is? I call it new-millennium rent-to-own, except that you have a bankruptcy on your record when you bail. Oh, yeah, then there�s the sunshine tax: the $8- to $10-an-hour jobs we work at with an hour a day commute at $3 per gallon gas. Man, how am I supposed to get the meth I need to make it through this California lifestyle of rush, rush, rush. Two years ago, I did a major search via a real-estate website to locate affordable homes south of Interstate 10�quarter-acre or more, two-plus bedrooms and a detached garage. Well, golly be, there were lots of them from El Paso to the Florida Panhandle. Some even deep in Florida. Many very near or on the water. Many of these homes were going for $35,000 to $89,000. Some in cities, others nearby cities, and larger properties in the country. I chose south of I-10 so that I wouldn�t pay money towards heat but have it to pay off the mortgage earlier. I�m sure the prices have gone up some, but not nearly the 100 percent in the last two years for San Diego homes. I don�t know if you were around when Temecula started to flourish in the late �80s and early �90s. Then the economy broke. Jobs flew away, and so did the homeowners. No one could afford the mortgage of $80,000-to-$145,000 homes when they lost one of the three jobs in the family or they were only working part-time (sans benefits). |
| The really scary thing is that we are throwing our dollars at China (via Wal-Mart, while we subsidize their redevelopment projects here) for their manufactured products. See U.S. trade deficit. Now, prices for housing in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York City and hundreds of other metropolises are higher than here, and we have a county where you can ski the mountains in the morning, get a tan on the beach in the afternoon and see a bullfight in another country at night. Don�t you think they are becoming aware of the value? And what does one do when they can�t afford to buy a home or even afford rent? What do they do when the neighbor across the sea has enough dollars to buy oil companies? Unlike the U.S., most other countries don�t just let other people �come-on-in!� Were moving closer and closer to the wall. And when we hit that wall, it will hurt. Being unrealistic and dreamy�like Bushy�s war, at billions per day in costs�will not give us security when we become cash short. We all will be living like Saddam in a hole hoping they don�t find us so we have to pay up to stay. Thanks for showing us the mirror. Hopefully we�re wise enough to see the imminent future. Daniel Beeman, Clairemont |
| http://www.sdcitybeat.com/ On the cover of this edition is a friend of mine. Read about Barb- |
| Published August 25, 2005 SD Reader Ballpark Dirt I believe my activist friend Mel Shapiro is wrong in saying "'seems funny' that a police [service] garage would be part of a library's cost." ("This Isn't a Free Library," "City Lights," August 18.) I believe in this instance the police-service-garage costs must be added to the main library cost because it wouldn't need to move without the push to create space for a new library. As a naturist/environmentalist, I believe it is many times best to leave contaminated soils where they are at if possible and to continue hazardous-chemical-use properties where they are until the business is phased out. Moving these soils endangers many more citizens in moving, storage (piles), and transporting to landfills than if they're left alone. Especially if use is moved somewhere else. I believe the cost of remediation is why John Moores and the Padres balked at completing the ballpark |
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| Moores had financial difficulties at the time with the Peregrine stock crash and construction costs of office complexes in the northern part of San Diego. When the bill came, Moores said, "I can't afford this," to the City of San Diego. My theory is that is why Murphy changed the emphasis of the ballpark redevelopment district and reworked the deal. I also believe the Redevelopment Agency took control of soil remediation, or at least paid for it. To find out the facts of the ballpark soil-remediation costs would be impossible without the force of a media organization's attorney pressing for public record requests. I believe the ballpark soil was much dirtier than we were led to believe, as was the whole ballpark redevelopment project. If you want to see Mel's suggestion of "edifice complex," just look at the background in the photo in the article. Those condos weren't there when the main library site was proposed and dedicated. And just wait until we dig up the soils south of the gasoline/fuel storage tanks at Spanos's stadium. Daniel Beeman Clairemont |
| Published September 1, 2005 SD Reader More Howard I'm calling about "My Past Announced Itself" by Curtis Howard ("City Lights," August 25). I'd like to thank you very much. He's a very good writer. I like how he wrote. And I'm very hopeful that he will work with the community and try to enlist those gang members to get off the gang path. And I hope you can encourage him by having him do more writing and do more articles and maybe even more investigative work. That would be important for us as community members as a whole of San Diego. I will continue praying for that community and for this former gang member himself as a writer. I look forward to seeing more articles. Daniel Beeman Clairemont Mesa |
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| Benefiting Big Business voice of sd- 6/27/05 So the U.S. Supreme Court has said okay for big companies to take property via eminent domain (redevelopment). Hank Cummingham of the San Diego Redevelopment Agency suggests California state law says no homes, but he & CCDC took my friend's house/business building for the downtown ballpark. Chris Michaels fought, but they took the building first, then let him fight in court. He lost and they duped him on the value of the property. Their value was prior to the ballpark and not its worth after. Watch out San Diego residents: Big Bro' and big business is coming! Who's next? Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, National City, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, and everything south of Interstate 8! Now they're going after small business in the Midway/Sports Arena area, all so we can have more billion dollar bonds to fund big company development & infrastructure. Forget affordable housing, parks, and schools. This money plus city money goes into the projects for wealthy businesses. I'll be at San Diego City Council protesting Tuesday. I hope you will, too! DANIEL BEEMAN, SAN DIEGO |
| voice of san diego Complex Issues Mike Stepner Voice Guest Columnist (Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005) is correct that the Broadway Complex should be designated for public use, and a park would be nice, but we need more! For many many years, maybe decades, City Hall has been breaking the fire code laws because of its lack of an adaquate sprinkler system. What we really need is to move City Hall to the Broadway Complex. The parking is available as is a newly upgraded building. Some small modifications could get us a "newer" City Hall on the water front, just like the County Administration building up Harbor Drive. There are parks nearby already: Tuna Lane Parkway & sitting parks along Harbor Drive, Seaport Village, Pantjo Park, and Marina Park & Harbor. A better option would be to help develop a parking structure at the northeast corner of Broadway and Harbor that would be a raised lot with a park on top. This could have a pedestrian bridge to the cruise ship terminal and San Diego Bay side of Harbor Drive. The park could be terraced towards the bay while having another pedestrian bridge kitty- cornered to the lot where the new Power House Hotel is being developed. |
| Hey, maybe each of these private entities might want to contribute, too. Rather than just giving away land, the city could get "goodwill" contributions to our local community. Also the city could sell the old City Hall or use it to house the city offices they pay leases on all over downtown. Wow, San Diego could reduce expenses without taking from parks, pools, and libaries (see "Bills Mount for City" by Andrew Donohue). San Diego can move to the 21st century! We can make it a better place and government. But we need to look away from the "old boys club." It looks like Mayor Atkins is being wooed by downtown powers like former Mayor Murphy was. Look where that has left us, beat up, bleeding red ink, and near bankruptcy. We don't need more interest-only or speculation condos! We don't need more retail stores to draw on the limited "sunshine tax incomes" we are getting. We need less downtown interest powers and more public commitment. Thanks for listening, even more thanks for informing us! DANIEL BEEMAN, SAN DIEGO |