Posted on 07/18/2011 10:40:47 AM PDT by fifedom
After years of declining tax revenues, cities and towns across the country are now running out of ways to deal with their ballooning budget deficits. ... Public employee costs account for a large share of municipal budget woes.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
And still the Unions are for Obama.. fiddling while the Union Hall burns..
Whats not to like?..
It would work in Heaven, but they don’t need it, or in Hell, where they already have it...
Don’t forget it is happening with the help of the socialist Mayor who wasn’t recalled when he should have been. The putzes on the city council aren’t doing the citizens any favors either! The most corrupt, taxing, city in Nebraska and the leader wants bike lanes and light rail instead of fixing the pothole ridden streets.
” Sustainability Coordinator”
That sounds like a government position straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
I have NOT eaten @ ANY Omaha Resturants since “Suttle’s Tax” was instituted!
” Sustainability Coordinator”
That sounds like a government position straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
Fresh Grad from Carnegie-Mellon making $45K salary to ensure that everything the city does meets “green” specs. She looks a little like Roseanne Barr with glasses.
Colorado Springs is certainly not leftist. They are pretty darned conservative. I’m really rather fuzzy on how they got all messed up.
Yepper, let us look at the record shall we? In most cases the Mayor is the CEO but the budget has to passed by City Council or equivalent. Hard to track these city legislative bodies but for the most part they seem all solid Dem.
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Whew, a lot of work here with poor results about specifics but it seems obvious that very few cities have outright GOP domination and many failed cities have generations of Democrat domination. |
The GOP almost never bothers to field candidates in Pittsburgh anymore. And when they do it is generally somebody ridiculous like a 26 year-old lawyer from Philadelphia. I like to joke about becoming the first Republican Pittsburgh Mayor since Reconstruction, and about how the Pittsburgh GOP Committee will be holding their quarterly meeting in a booth at this particular tavern, etc.
And the reason is obvious. The Democrats provide lots of cushy gubbermint jobs for various naer-do-wells and members of their extended families.
Thanks for posting it.
Public sector workers and their unions are a cancer which will destory their hosts. Nuff said.
Our problem is unfunded, exorbitant pensions. Some small progress has been made but the real battle will come on the ballot next year with a reform plan up for a public vote.
“As federal stimulus money runs dry, states are scaling back on municipal aid and revenue sharing”
Sarah Palin as governor warned early on what would be the result of accepting the stimulus money, and for her efforts she was called a fool.
Out of ten "non-partisan" city council districts, there's all of one Republican, plus a few that will cross-over on fiscal matters.
And that idiot Zex Yaroslavsky was so elated at the weekend that Carmageddon did not happen with the closure of the 405.....saying that people did not have to get in their cars at weekends and go somewhere. They could enjoy staying at home.
Their tax revenue depends upon folks taking trips; buying gas etc.
Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs
Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs — is the primary threat to job security at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget and a dozen other federal operations.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-07-18-fderal-job-security_n.htm
at least DC is still “livin large”.
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