Thor's Midweek Meltdown - San Diego Water Prices

Mayor Thor gets at it again, going to bat for the city of San Diego and fighting against the increasing rates in water prices. Once again, he fights for good in Thor's Midweek Meltdown

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now the show is happy to bring you. I'm
pissed out or have some respectors midweek melt down melt down.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, the subject we talked about earlier, with the city
now charging for trash and trash cans and all that stuff,
was a little appetizer for him, a little happy because
now we're in it for the main course. Get ready
as Thor is going to go off. What do you got?
Thanks Eddie?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I appreciate that intro. You know, I'm sick and tired.
I know people of the San Diego are sick and tired.
We're all sick and tired of standing up for this one.
We're all sick. I'm always standing up for We're all
sick and tired. Yes, And we were talking about the
trash cans earlier. We did the parking a couple of
weeks ago. Well, the city of San Diego's at it again,

(00:53):
big guy.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
A am I the big guy?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're the big Okay, okay? Because San Diego water customers,
who you know you need water to live, say water
customers could see their bill increase by more than sixty
percent over the next four years. Sorry, Oh yeah, sweethearts,
sixty Are you sure you don't mean six I mean

(01:17):
six d percent. According to possent by the city's six
zero Public Utilities Department, that suggests rate hikes which would
begin in twenty twenty six and continue through twenty twenty nine.
So in twenty twenty six we could be looking at
four point seven percent, okay, then in twenty twenty seven
fourteen point five, and then the next two years over

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eleven percent. So year over year, more and more increases.
And that's not it. They're also saying, oh, we're going
to raise sewer rates thirty one percent as well. Stop,
So that's ninety three percent increase overall. Because it's end
a typical single family household, their bill would then jump
to one hundred and eighty dollars per month because what's

(01:59):
it right now? Like fifty bucks forty bucks gone. So
that's what we're dealing with right now. Is there a reason? Yeah,
what's the reason?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'll get there, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
So they're saying that the reason is is because the
Public Utilities Department is needs this money because they're falling
short of paying their workers. There's a bunch of agreements
they've made. They've made long term agreements to buy water
because we don't have our own water, so we buy
water from the Imperial Valley, so that price has gone up.

(02:30):
They've also they're constructing something in Carl's bed, a plan
in Carl's bed, and they're doing a development of large
wastewater recycling system. So all these deals are already in place.
All these people that they pay are already getting paid.
So they have to do this like there's no way
around it. The problem is they've done a bunch of
things already that have screwed us. So they actually met yesterday,

(02:52):
which I was waiting for this, and I wish we
would the meeting would be today because I would have gone.
The man I live in Chea just doesn't affect me.
But I care. I care about society. I want to
run for mayor one day, or at least city council
may I will I will win. I will win, and
I will make San Diego the greatest city. And wait
a minute, like somebody else, and I will do everything

(03:15):
I can to help San Diego and make San Diego
the greatest. Now, they did vote yesterday and they said
we're gonna table this until October twenty eighth. So this
was supposed to go down. Yesterday people showed up the
city council stopped their feet and said no, no, no,
we're gonna wait until October twenty eighth. But this is
just to save face people. They're going to raise this

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raid like it's going to happen. They have no choice,
like they have.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
To do this.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
But this is the problem. Like I already said, they've
done too many things at the same time. So I
think they're just hoping we're gonna forget about this and
eventually they'll sneak it in at the end of October
early November, like that's what's gonna happen. Because they've already
done the parking, they've already done the trash cans. I
swear to something else on missing that they've already done
too that we talked about. I was yell on screwing about.
So they've done all this stuff already, so now they're

(04:03):
just trying to save face and try to sneak this in.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
For energy rates.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh, the sag are insane, which they had a couple
of those rants, which I've had a couple of those rants,
and they've changed something there too. They've like lowered the
kilowatts now, but you have to pay like to next
your bills and start zero anymore, So like twenty it
starts with twenty six dollars, which is insane, Which is
insane to think about. So the deals are done, this
is gonna happen. I understand that this sucks, and I

(04:28):
understand that if this doesn't happen, they're gonna have to
lay people off. Well, you know what, I don't. I'm
never gonna advocate for anybody to get fired. But what
do I say at this point? Bring an elon, give
me the chainsaw that he had his weird black hat,
and clean the swamp up in San Diego City Council. Okay,
And if people have to lose their job, if people

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have to lose their jobs for the for the public
utilities department, I'm sorry, but this is the city's fault.
This is they made bad deals over the last few years.
I'm so tired of hearing about the budget shortfall. What
could have stopped the butcher shortfall? Taxing the hotel tax
and the tourism tax and sales tax. But the people
San Diego, they voted no on that, So you have

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to take blame for this too. People, you could have
voted for that. You didn't want to So okay, now
you're gonna what's crazy to me is we don't stay
in the hotels. We don't. The sales tax is only
when I buy things. Now they're taxing things that I need.
I have no choice. I need water, I need electricity,
I need to park. I don't get why people didn't

(05:30):
vote for that. I don't want to hear about gas
prices being high. You voted to increase the gas tax.
You voted for that. So I don't know what to
say there. But I have solutions. It is always saying
to me, or you need solutions. You can't just yell
and scream. You can't just yell and scream. I can't
say so I do have solutions because this is going

(05:52):
to happen me young and screament is not going to
change how this is going to happen.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
So here's what who do you appears Todd's listening right now.
Of course Todd follows us on Instagram. By the way,
what glorious mayor Gloria esteemed mayor Glorio anybody.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Calls an open invite to come on the show anytime?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Hang on a second, you keep saying that, and again,
you know we we kind of should discuss that before
we just open invite people.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I kind of like they'd be really uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I don't I actually don't want that a bridge between
us and the mall.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
The bridge is already burned, honey.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I mean he's he's throwing a Molotov cocktail on that.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, that's not happening. So I have solutions, get a shuffle,
go in your backyard, dig a well.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Okay, that's not a solution.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's not a.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Dig a well. Little kids falling and well, don't want
dogs falling and well, I like this, Jessica, that's an
old news.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
A girl felling a well.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
You're gonna be building away because San Diego is so
unaffordable now that the only way you're gonna get clean
water is by building a well. We all can't have
reverse osmosis systems like rich sky over. We all can't
do that, So build.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Oh well, she has people that literally carry buckets down
to the river and bring them back the Yeah. Yeah,
it's crazy. Uh, door is not wrong on this, well,
just in general about like they're pricing humans out of
this city. Like if you continue to do this and

(07:37):
raise rates for water, for energy, for all the things
that we need to live. Who can afford to live here?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Nobody?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
And and that's crazy because I want to live here.
I love San Diego. Well, then I think you sayk okay,
what about the sewage. They're gonna raise sewage price? What
do you what do you do? What are we gonna
do out houses? Okay, house, I've gone camping, dig go
ho all in the ground, get some tall paper and
then just put some sawdust on it. Sawdust on it.

(08:08):
I mean, we gotta do, we gotta do. That's where
I hope it's not near the well. Yeah, we could
have a little bit of We've already had somebody go
into Sky's backyard and drop a deuce in that backyard.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Did happen?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
So if that could happen, we could all be doing it.
The city of San Diego residents just use skysa skys
backyards in our house and build a well. That's how
you can afford to live in San Diego. The city
has been mismanaged for years. So that's where I'm at
right now. So if I run for office, I will

(08:43):
say build wells in your backyard.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I would hope you would change the policy to make
it more affordable to live here rather than having to
go to that extreme.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
If my solution is legalizing sports gambling, but that's never
going to happen for some reason. I don't know why
they're never going to do that in San Diego because
if they do that, if you look at Jersey and
Jersey right now, that's more of a state issue. I
don't think you can do it by city. That's the problem.
So they're never going to do that. But if they
did do that, we'd make billions of dollars off of it.
Gonna do who needs it? So anyway, sorry to tell

(09:15):
you San Diego, we're screwed. We're building wells. We're building wells.
We're building out, thank you very much, because living here
has gotten that expensive.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
That was a good one. It was