Comments on: A Sign of Bad Times in Surf City: City Council could have made a difference http://ocvoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/a-sign-of-bad-times-in-surf-city-city-council-could-have-made-a-difference/ The official blog for the Orange Coast Voice newspaper Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joe http://ocvoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/a-sign-of-bad-times-in-surf-city-city-council-could-have-made-a-difference/#comment-440 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:35:39 +0000 http://ocvoice.wordpress.com/?p=416#comment-440 Ha ha, yes I need to get my eyes checked.

You’re missing the point. We had a chance to get rid of an unenforceable law, that would have helped some small businesses and low-end wage earners.

Not often that the city council gets a chance like that.

You obviously have no idea the sea of regulations which small business owners must navigate, which often have more impact on them than it does on a larger business.

It’s an example of another foolish law that hinders business opportunities.

]]> By: Incredulous http://ocvoice.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/a-sign-of-bad-times-in-surf-city-city-council-could-have-made-a-difference/#comment-317 Thu, 07 May 2009 02:58:41 +0000 http://ocvoice.wordpress.com/?p=416#comment-317 Is this guy serious? Can’t we do better for HB citizens than jobs as human signs? The City Council should spend its time and energy creating more consumer traffic in the City so that small business can grow and create good, or at least decent, jobs for HB citizens. Do we really want HB seniors out in the searing summer heat spinning signs? Do we really want HB teens putting, “I was a human sign,” on their resumes? If Joe Shaw wants to help the local economy, he should visit an HB optometrist to get his prescription updated so he can stop confusing the moon with “white, round, luminescent” balloons. Joe Shaw would do better to work as a human sign himself than to offer lame ideas for solving the city’s economic woes. (20 to 30 human sign jobs? Really Joe? Wow! Let’s recall the entire City Council for missing this grand opportunity.) Joe Shaw is no better at discerning good ideas from bad ones than he is at distinguishing between balloon signs and natural satellites. (By the way, Joe, only the people toting the signs are human. The signs themselves are actually just signs.)

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