Posted on 03/28/2024 7:29:46 AM PDT by Sam77
Mike the Scavenger is making big bucks with recyclables.
Mebbe get the Goobermint staffers to start dumpster diving?
No Money for Emergency Services , so where does the money go ?
I warn everyone at every opportunity to stay away from Houston at all costs!
Dont visit, don’t drive through, and certainly NEVER EVER accept a job there.
I used to think I hated Texas when I was younger, but then after leaving Houston, I realized no.. I only hated Houston and I had extrapolated the hate out to the entire state. And it has gotten 10 times worse since that time.
Leftists vote against having emergency services and spend the money on leftists.
Public school students cheer.
The cost of EMERGENCIES skyrockets.
Leftists declare that they have no money.
Public school students riot.
The question is, How many leftists (and their useful student bodies) does it take to screw up a light bulb?
The answer is, The number who vote against having emergency services and spend the money on leftists.
I lived a couple of miles away from downtown Houston for a few years in the 1980s and it wasn’t great, but was heads-and-shoulders above SF, NYC, and Chi.
Stayed there a year ago in the convention district and vow never to go there again. Trump’s “$#!+#013” description doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Crack smokers and hoes on every street corner all hours of the day-and-night.
It’s now just a giant pile of steaming $#!+ !
Sylvester Turner’s parting gift.
He is driving away saying “See ya suckers”.
It’s already happened. Anyone with a lick of sense moved out of the city long ago. They all live in the suburbs.
I grew up in the Alief area from the mid 60’s to late 70’s. Great place to grow up. I left in 1978 and never looked back.
There are a lot of good places to live and work outside of Harris county.
Yep ... you were right ... govt employee benies come first.
To be fair, this was the previous Mayor’s (Sylvester Turner) budget.
Whitmire is also a Dem, so, I don’t see too many actual improvements, to cutting spending, being made.
Not to mention, MUCH better weather!!
He’s Mayor of Houston Texas.
I never liked Houston (except maybe River Oaks). Katy born and raised, but lived and worked in Houston for 10 years before moving back to Katy, and then to Florida.
Has he considered taking out a student loan?
Those tunnels under Houston were impressive.
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End to special last meals
Whitmire was angered by convicted murderer Lawrence Russell Brewer’s refusal to eat the expensive last meal he ordered prior to his September 21, 2011, execution. Whitmire said that this was Brewer’s attempt to “make a mockery out of the process.” The senator contacted the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and asked the agency to end the practice of last meal requests or he would get the State Legislature to pass a bill doing so. The agency replied that last meal requests were accommodated “within reason” from food available in the prison kitchen, but it agreed to end the practice immediately at Whitmire’s insistence.[14]
A/C in prisons
In 2021, Whitmire stirred controversy by responding to questions about the lack of air conditioning in prisons by saying: “You know, we can talk about this all day, it’s not gonna change. The prisons are hot. They’re uncomfortable. And the real solution is, don’t commit a crime and you stay at home and be cool. We’re not gonna air condition them. One, we don’t want to. Number two, we couldn’t afford it if we wanted to.” Whitmire’s quote was featured the following month on a segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver criticizing Texas for not air conditioning its prisons, exacerbating medical conditions and even causing the deaths of some prisoners.[15] Heat has killed numerous prisoners and cost Texas taxpayers millions of dollars in wrongful death suits brought by victims’ families.[16]
Added problem....he’d normally go to some bank and ask for a couple billion. Presently, the banks who might have cash and willing nature....want some serious rate of interest. So just talking about borrowing is going hurt reality.
Surprised that he isn’t trying to make it a Texas state issue.
To his credit, he isn’t blaming the problem on racism, or at least not to my knowledge.
Just raise taxes until money coming out of your axx. Works every time.
first you pay firefighters, cops and pick up the trash Everything else comes after,
schumer must be mad at Sheila Jackson-Lee he must have left her earmarks for houston out of the last spending fiasco.
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