I have to comment on Vicky's suggestion that the city default on
it's bonds. I don't think that is at all necessary.
Yah, there is a severe budget problem, but solving it is the best
and most needed medicine for the city.
The past 25 years, as I have struggled to pay property taxes, I
would find in the paper, news about how the city had paid out 8 million or
ten million to buy this or that piece of real estate junk -pidgeons flying
through it and with no plan as to what to do with it. Then I would see how
they had written a check of $50,000 to some guy in a small restaurant NE,
his Dad had been a DFL biggey, and they liked to go there for coffee etc..
Then you got the social services mania, people coming here from all
over the world because the hand outs are the best.
The city is now forced to get into sensible perspectives in its
budget. You can't blame the new Governor nor the nearly new Mayor, they are
locked in by law to a balanced budget.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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