Sunday, May 23, 2010

Send in the Clowns

Where do you clowns think this money is going to come from? It will come out of the pockets of the citizens. With this deal, we are guaranteed to have $425 million more extracted from our pockets than before. Meanwhile, the Mayor and his cronies can hand out a plethora of wasteful contracts that will result in more improperly paved and constructed streets, more improperly located and constructed sidewalks, badly designed bike lanes, and other short- and long-term boondoggles.

While I have no doubt that Citizens Gas can more efficiently bill its customers, etc., there will be no great savings to be garnered because of the massive mismanagement of this asset over the last half-dozen years or so.

Maybe, if the Mayor and the Council would engage in real long-term thinking (but that would take a brain) and stop handing out contracts and sanctioning the theft of taxpayer money or just simply stealing it themselves, there would be adequate money to fund critical city services. Instead they use the city resources to bestow favors and build empires instead of actually delivering city services

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