SF Mayor race leads the way: Terry Joan Baum

Ranked choice voting is the best thing ever. It gave us the first woman mayor of Oakland, also the first Asian mayor of Oakland: Jean Quan.

If we are lucky, it will give us the first Green Party mayor of San Francisco: Terry Joan Baum.

Terry Baum actually believes in taxing the rich (DUH!!), and is not shy in saying so.  She thinks we have enough billionaires in SF, that they should pay a fair share of taxes, that we should stop pumping money up to the rich in this country & send some back down to the folks who can't afford  fresh produce, let alone college, the rent, or the mortgage. In fact, we should put a moratorium on building housing for the wealthy in SF, she declares in her statement to the League of Women Voters.

re: The Ponzi Scheme? of Social Security

Checked out The Howler blog today, on the rec of my new beserkly housemate, and wandered to the following analysis from the Baltimore Sun.

Question: Is GOP Prez candidate Rick Parry right? Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme?

Answer: Not unless you count 80% guaranteed return a Madoff Ponzi scheme. And, if you tax the rich (DUH!), 100% return.

BALTIMORE SUN EDITORIAL (9/14/11):
The only real issue is how big a benefit should be provided by Social Security and how it should be financed.