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On 8 Oct 2012 in The Housing Trap, barrister said:
The housing trap is even worse, in some key ways, in Oakland.

Read about this property tax assessment ("Parcel tax") that was supposed to provide more needed public safety services and performance-based anti-violence programs, but instead brought us fewer police, politically connected nonprofits with no-bid, no-results anti-violence programming, and counter-intuitively, more crime. No other bay area city that i'm aware of uses parcel taxes to pay for BASIC services such as police. That is a core city service.

http://defendingmeasurey.blogspot.com/

also:

http://www.lensforchange.com/public_safety
On 21 May 2011 in NAR Lobbies Against 20% Downpayments, barrister said:
Troy says

klarek says

I hate to break it to you, but TPTB cannot stop housing prices from correcting

mortgage interest rates are about twice here what they are in Japan. There’s still some more fuel to throw at the fire.

and that's been working great for the japanese for 20 years now right? prices dropping every year...

japan is our future.
On 22 Apr 2011 in Hyperinflation article from ShadowStats.com, barrister said:
check this article about oil extraction vs employment-

http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/04/08/whats-behind-united-states-budget-problems/

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