Mayor Declares Fiscal Emergency!
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Posted by Unknown @ 5/12/2009 07:47:00 PM
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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So while the Mayor calls for shared sacrifice he lets some Department executive management staffs give themselves $25k - $30k pay raises, spend money on office remodels that employees don't want, and hire high paid management employees while cutting staff resources for those in the trenches. What a joke.
I'm not positive, but I think this is the first place the Mayor's letter has been posted. Let me know if I am incorrect.
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Memo to 9:13 PM,
Nobody is going to care about posting your "waste of comments".
You been warned.
No surprise here.
This is what happens when you let irresponsible liberals govern. Total financial meltdown.
Same thing is going to happen at the State and Federal levels.
I predict Conservatives are going to do very well in 2010.
Phil, We just went through 8 years of your party calling the shots, and look where that got us.
But Joe - George Bush was an irresponsible liberal! A Republican the worst kind. Just like his buddy Arnie.
MS,
You cannot label a failed conservative president a liberal.
It don't work that way, brother.
Bush was a conservative. He failed BADLY! Take your lumps, and don't spin them in another direction. Same goes for you you Phil.
According to ST Realtor extraordinaire Tomi Greig Smith says the effect of NC cuts will be that the NCs won't be able to have shrimp at their holiday parties.
Doesn't look like Smith has been passing up the shrimp.
Joe B,
The stock market hit record highs while George W Bush was President.
Do you think you will be able to say that four years from now??
Force Mmmmmary to give back her 'extortion' money!!!!
The biggest affront that President Bush has perpetrated to economic conservatism has of course been spending. Rather than curbing spending when he implemented these tax cuts, he allowed the Congress that his own party controlled to go on unlimited spending sprees without ever once vetoing one budget due to the pork in it.
Spending is just one way to look at President Bush's economic liberalism. Another way to look at his economic liberalism is the massive increase in government bureaucracy under his administration. Both of No Child Left Behind and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security added tens of thousands of new bureaucrats into the Federal government. Nationalizing education may have been a hallmark of Compassionate Conservatism but it was certainly not economic conservatism.
President Bush was also the architect of the massive new prescription drug benefit program. Putting to the side the merits of providing government subsidies for seniors struggling to pay for prescription drugs, this new roughly $70 billion program (in its inception and it will likely grow) is the furthest thing from economic conservatism. President Bush also signed into law the massive new highway bill in 2005. This nearly $300 billion bill was nothing more than a series of giveaways by the Federal government for local and state projects. It also appears that the highway bill was a major boon personally for its main Congressional architect Dennis Hastert. President Bush signed into law a massive bailout of distressed borrowers, a bill co authored by the dubious Chris Dodd. This bill, worth in excess of $300 billion, would have the FHA back loans for troubled borrowers in which they would get rates and even loan balances that they neither deserve and nor would they get in the open market. This bill was not only an affront to free markets but to economic conservatism.
What will stocks be in four years ??
Some paper printed from the "People's Stocks Collective" ??
I recall the Daily News running a story on Countrywide being the key source of the Financial Meltdown.
When may ask chris Dodd about that.
'The stock market hit record highs while George W Bush was President.
Do you think you will be able to say that four years from now??"
I doubt it. Four years from now, Obama will still be trying to clean up Bush's mess. National debt and spending hit record highs under Bush, as did oil company profits.
What's your point other than you don't know what you are talking about?
Joe B.
Bush's spending??
Oh yeah... that Obama... he's a real penny-pincher. I'm sure he'll have the national budget back in the black any day now.
I like you Phil.
Phil,
You can not even defend Bush. FAIL.
Bush spent like a drunken sailor. That doesn't 'scuse Obama who wreck it worse and will spend more. We need to move past these two to a leader who will get us out of this. Mitt Romney 2012.
Damn, I love REM!
Poster #1-
Do you think you can just post stories such as the Mayor "let" some Department executive management staff give themselves $25,000 pay raises and not tell us who?
Who spent money on remodels?
Who are the newly-hired high paid management employees?
If you don't name names, you are anonymously considered to be full of shit.
Oh sure. Right on. Romney. Praise Jesus.
Back to the topic at hand...
Didn't the City Council declare a fiscal emergency back during the Prop S (Phony Phone Tax) initiative so that only 50% approval was needed? Did that expire? We really experienced some "boom times" since that phone tax passed!
Phil,
Are you blind "this is what happens when you elect liberals?"
Where were you during the Clinton administration and it's high time you stop being in denial over the W Bush calamity.
Clinton and Obama are smart - Bush and Villar aren't. It's that simple. It's a matter of intelligence, not politics.
Sue the SOB and tie up the budget negotiations take it to the streets and courts.
We should be determine to not let this Mayor mis-manage another Municipality again. Stop his run for Governor by any means necessary!
Piss off Deadwood!
Red Snot, do you think "warning me" to not post that I or others don't care when you post something stupid is going to stop me from doing it again? If you don't like it, tough luck, sweetie. You have the ability to delete. But that still won't stop me. And it'll just show every one that you are closed to peoples opinion
Phil, anyone who watches meet the press can make the same prediction.
so you are going to come back like zooma tard and say you were the first to predict this?
speaking about fiscal responsibility, how well did you manage to raise finances for your joke of a campaign?
It is a riot to see three nitwits like Phil, Joe and Fatso argue for two hours, and watch as they make the same cases anonymously.
Memo to "Sweetcheeks",
Be relevant, on topic, or meet a familiar fate.
Someone with no life and no class.
8:18pm
Name the victims who received pay raises.
8:18 is referring to America's Port
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