The current issue of the San Francisco Business Times has an excellent Editorial on the rental housing problems of San Francisco being made worse by rental housing activists.

See the article here: http://snipurl.com/vftlm   [sanfrancisco_bizjournals_com] 

From globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com:

Here in San Francisco picking up a garbage costs about $37/can per week.

A contractor I know got fed up, canceled his service as did his neighbor. They simply loaded both houses garbage into his truck, took it to the dump and paid the $40 to get rid of it. He charged his friend $10.

As a contractor he had to go to the dump all the time anyway. Pretty soon he had a small business, neighbors paying him $10 instead of $37, a difference of over $1400 per year or the price of a vacation or plasma TV for the family.

He sorted their garbage and turned in the recycling for more money. Normally the neighbors had to keep two cans, sort their garbage themselves and the Garbage monopoly took all the recycling fees anyway.

Pretty soon he hired a couple of neighborhood kids and his crew of 3 did both sides of residential streets at the same time. If you had an old monitor or TV, motor oil, or paint to get rid of he'd take that too, sometimes he'd charge you $5 + what the dump charged for the special item. Need an extra pickup? No problem. He'd work from 5am to 8am and he was earning $200 per day and his workers $75.

The amazing thing he kept telling me was that the larger the truck you had the more money you could make. He was amazed that with only a modified large pickup truck he could make money at a third of what the Garbage company charged.

When the local garbage company and its union found out about "Joe" they complained to the city.

Please note the business meeting will take place in the Community Room of the Richmond District Police Station at 461 6th Ave. located 1/2 block south of Geary Blvd..

If you knew Blue Shield of California, Hewlett Packard, Shea Homes, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, and Pacific Life Insurance Company all made donations ranging between $5,000 and $100,000 to support a measure, would you believe it was for giving voters more choices on the ballot?

Your gut reaction would probably be the same as mine. It is safe to assume that large corporations regulated by the state want to have government in their pockets. They want to maintain the two-party status quo. California’s Proposition 14, also known as the Top Two Primary Act, would make these parties tyrannical.

You can see the big corporate money behind Top Two here. These are the same special interests behind the Sacramento politicians who have driven California to the brink of bankruptcy.

Please now use the Supplemental form instead of the original In-Lieu form.  Here is the new PDF:

http://lpsf.org/Berg2010Supplemental.pdf

Thank you for your help in getting Phil Berg on the ballot against Nancy Pelosi!