Now that Wall Street investments have collapsed in value, it's fair to credit Nancy Pelosi's lead in the 2005 battle against Social Security privatization for saving us all from spending old age in abject poverty."In this downturn in the financial -- the stock market, thank God we won that fight," Pelosi told Jim Lehrer on Jan. 8.There's another act of salvation by a San Francisco pol you may not have known about: Now that the global debt crisis is severely punishing borrowers seeking to refina
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1788Well, the state ain't paying for that...Earlier today, we ran a story about how, while it's no Truk Lagoon boats sink in San Francisco Bay more often than you might guess. Yet getting even an incomplete count of how often vessels slip beneath the waves here was also harder than you might guess. There's no one list titled "Ships that Sank in San Francisco Bay." We called the Coast Guard, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Safety Board,