Comments on: County Hikes Spending By 11%, No Tax Jump

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:37:40 +0000

At a time when most wages have been cut as much as 20% they need a raise?
What part of stupidity do they not understand?
Are they that out of touch?

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:50:13 +0000

Dear local government leaders: Apparently you are betting on a recovery soon? News Flash! The fundamental reasons why it occurred are still in place and not likely to change. Maybe never. Time to be responsible leaders and make the spending cuts needed to meet the taxpayers ability to pay rather than building a nice cushion under your fat a$$e$. Too many of you are greedy and careless with our future. The federal government is surviving on credit. What you are doing locally is stripping the middle/lower-middle with your increasing taxes and fees and rules. Your failed leadership can only think about how to grow your budget and retirement. I think we need some new levy laws to control you and force cuts. As it is now, you are making most of us a prisoner of debt. FAIL!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904233404576460131182881982.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

Cyclops, it has been suggested by powerful people like Hillary Clinton that ex-cons be granted special “minority status” so they can claim discrimination. It is no wonder we are a nation in decline with such a huge disconnect between elected/appointed leaders and those who pay for them to play.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:04:06 +0000

Or, we could take them out and shoot them! No housing,no feeding,no public defenders, no parole supervision, no drug testing, no repeat offenders!!!

By: Eye on Numbers

Eye on Numbers — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:53:36 +0000

A quick calculation says the hold back money will fund about $10MM of one time expenses this year. Pay increases and health plan increases are another matter. In addition, if they build 88 more beds in the jail how many more people will it take to staff, maintain and run the additional beds?

Those jail beds come to $68,000.00/each if you divide the beds into the cost. Jail beds come at a very high cost. As a country we have more people in jails and prisons than any other nation on the face of the earth. What is troubling is we keep trying to build our way out of this problem and enacting more and more laws to put people in jails and prisons.

I am a proponent of alternative sentencing (picture a certain senator out on the freeway picking up trash), legalization of marijuana for medical uses and stopping the use of county jails for mentally ill people.