It's a madhouse... a madhouse!
Posted on 05/09/2019 10:34:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The City of Oakland is in such dire financial straits that it is planning to use $2.9 million from state gas tax revenues to keep the city’s lights on, rather than using the money to fix pothole-riddled roads, for which the funding was intended. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that the city is facing severe financial shortfalls, despite a booming economy that has seen wealthier households relocate from San Francisco across the bay to gentrifying neighborhoods.
The problem is that the city’s costs are rising faster than its growing revenues, thanks partly to pension obligations — an increasingly common challenge for large, Democrat-run cities that made ambitious promises to public sector unions.
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good news
No one saw this coming. /s
This can’t be true? Every deomcrats says illegals help the local economy.
Get woke, go broke.
You wanted 'em, you got 'em and they're killin' you.
Awesome- more misappropriation of taxpayer’s money- bet people are loving having money stolen from them to pay for illegals
Get woke, go broke, then toke, toke, toke
They can ALL move to mexico, since they love it so much.
Oakland======Cokeland.
Today’s so called democrats insist Americans must allow illegals storm in here by the hundreds of thousands despite their cost to us citizens. Claiming benefits are cheap labor which winds up removing PT job opportuities for citizens including teenagers and full time work for blacks. That open door sanctuary policy is suddenly requireing billion$ in tax dollars,which is never enough. Tax money that should be going to our citizens for their sustenance,health,education,and housing even infrastructure are being diverted to illegal’s needs. But Americans must do the tax flagellating punishment because we’re the very rich United States and must divert those billion$ to fill the needs of those poor illegals plus give them the right to vote. Sustained by our tax money which our children’s children if not aborted will be paying for
Another dimoKKKRAT utopia biting the dust. The whole country would wind up looking like Oakland, Baltimore if the dimoKKKRATS ran everything.
Start the internal US illegal alien caravan to this city.
The A’s no-hitter the other night almost didn’t happen because the Coliseum lights weren’t coming on.
Coincidence?
These cities are living parasitic stand alone entities which exist solely for their own self perpetuation The residents are the hosts getting sucked dry.
The evil Trump voters predicted this when the liberals pushed the new Gas Taxes down our throats and up our orifices on the opposite end.
We knew that money would not go to repairing roads and road infrastructure.
It would supposedly go to the poor, the homeless and the illegals with the Oakland elitists taking a large share.
Sure Buckaroos! Tax us to build better roads!
I suspect they may have picked the wrong President to ask for a bailout from.
No one saw this coming. /s
If only we had been told this last year when considering the Gas Tax Proposition.
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