Comments on: Eagle Tries “Credit Card” Transfer Scam https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/ A different slant on the news. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lucas Baumbach https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-14062 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:50:32 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-14062 It’s time to reign in fiscal irresponsibility. Eagle is living beyond the tax base. Star is going into property speculation. Boise has more money pits on the growth plan than one can keep track of. There’s no leadership out there. Zero.

]]> By: GSM https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13984 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:34:45 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13984 The Mayor of Star is planning to float a multi-million dollar bond this fall to buy River Birch Golf Golf Course. All in the name of a sports complex….for who? Its three plus miles from down town! All the while having a 40 year supply of building lots and vacant (foreclosed) houses within the city limits. Go figure!

]]> By: John Mitchel https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13926 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:01:31 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13926 I LOVE the “carryover” concept that the politicos in Eagle adopt. This surplus (they don’t like it to be called what it is..) should be put back into the General Fund but they hold it out to fund little pet projects like Guerber (“Three Lunches on my Credit Card”) Park and other things that are kept out of reach of the electorate. approval. I think this is properly called a slush fund.

Let’s see, we couldn’t pay back the $500k that is due so let’s borrow another $700K and pay off that loan with another loan PLUS go deeper in debt!!!!

Insanity.

]]> By: Robert https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13918 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:12:06 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13918 I think Phil Bandy has already proven he’s not much of a leader.
Anyone can lead in good times, but it takes a leader to lead in bad times. The new school let credit solve the problem.

]]> By: Ted E https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13909 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:46:24 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13909 Don’t let the mayor of Boise know about this…..he will add it to his playbook!

]]> By: TJ https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13888 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:42:07 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13888 Perhaps his honor could take a pay cut until the economy improves – no way could the mayor job be full time. Certainly Mayor Nancy got much less than Bandy – oh, that right, he’s a guy!

How many years does he think we can continue to spend more than we take in?

]]> By: paul https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13882 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:05:43 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13882 If I cut a foot off the end of a blanket and sew it to the top…. have I made it any longer?

This is an accouting move to hide the real issue… easy credit.

]]> By: Gordon https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13875 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:19:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13875 Eagle, Boise and other officials don’t want to submit things to the voters.
Their reasoning seems to go like this: “The voters are idiots. They must be — they elected us, didn’t they?”

]]> By: Mr. Watcher https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13873 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:46:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13873 A big missing point here is the city of Eagle is not living within its means. They are spending more than they have coming in and it would be of interest to see some of the spending projects that the taxpayers could easily live without.
I’m not a lawyer but if this is an action to bypass the legal ways to do such actions. We will not see any legal action taking by are tax feed employees in the criminal justice system because these people see themselves above us and the laws.
The joke is these people in government see themselves are smarter and better than the average citizen. Yet they can not get a job in the private sector that provides for them as their tax feed government jobs do. So we the productive citizens feed these people with the taxes we make doing productive work and they are smarter than us, yea right. Maybe they are smarter because we have allowed them to swindle us to no ends is what some may say in dry humor. Fact of the matter is we have street wise hustlers who know how to con decent citizens and because of that they honestly believe they are smarter than the rest of us. You can’t make this stuff up.

]]> By: Rod in SE Boise https://boiseguardian.com/2009/08/01/another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt/#comment-13866 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:53:56 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3134#comment-13866 Why is the first TAN (the $500,000 one) not being paid off until September 1, 2009? Could it have been paid off after the June 20, 2009 tax payments were received and some interest cost saved?

Other than that small detail, it seems that both parties made reasonable arguments. I don’t have time to look up and read Idaho Code, Title 63, Chapter 31. I hope someone will, and comment here.

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