Aug 4, 2008
Newsflash: Minneapolis has plenty of money to support its essentials
The city council members and mayor must have looked in the correct cookie jar because they have found $41 million dollars to spend on something that isn’t a necessity. I guess they now can afford more cops, to pay for their own park improvements and bike paths, can buy back their movie rental libraries, and can lower taxes. The project to change the traffic patterns on Marquette and second avenues, add art and landscaping, widen sidewalks, and change bus lines will cost $41 million dollars in a city that the officials claim they always need more money to fund their responsibilities. Next time the ‘silly council” and mayor claim they need more money from you, better hold on to your wallets and tell them to take a flying leap down Marquette avenue.
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Governments are supposed to be the grand overseers of how best to spend precious taxpayer contributions. Instead, they wallow in their own unweilding power, falsely believing they were appointed by some higher being to create Utopia.
Rather than act as good stewards of other people's money, they instead listen to problems and grant wishes with the bottomless pot at the end of the rainbow.
The real travesty comes when they spend more time together because rather than get bored, they just look for new problems to solve. Quite often the new problems come about because of their meddling into old problems and they didn't work out like their Utopian minds thought they would, creating additional problems that require yet more money.
It's exhausting. Time to stand up and demand they represent the people sending all the money to them.
A well run local government should have all the neccessities budgeted responsibly, spend adequate time dealing with repairs and upkeep and minimal time dreaming up new possibilities of what to spend money on that will pander to those that sit in their offices and bug them everyday.
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