Actually, you might do best to not make a big deal of the hiring
freeze unless the city is being very visible about it. They obviously
want to use it to scare people into voting in a tax increase. That
will only work if a lot of people hear about it and get scared. If
the city doesn't do a
I hope a few letters turn up in the letter section of the S~N~L proclaiming
it to be a scare tactic which MIGHT get people to thinking.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Matthew Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Actually, you might do best to not make a big deal of the hiring
freeze unless the city
What is unbelievble is that the people of this city is giving thought to
passing a sales tax to bailout the pension plan without taking a close look
at what the plan is and how it can be changed to keep us from having to do a
bailout. I guess all bureaucrats, city, county, state, and federal,
Ah, this is much closer to home. All governmental bodies are contemplating new
taxes to cover their collective past budgetary sins. Springfield is the first
to actually bring the problem to their voters and say Pay now, or we will
screw you in a manner you have never anticipated. The Feds and
