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Posted on 06/05/2013 8:25:29 PM PDT by blam
Epicenter Of A Bursting Bubble
Dave Gonigam
Jun 5, 2013
“Josephine County is broke,” wrote the commenter at Huffington Post. “Armed citizen volunteers have taken over most patrol duties against the wishes of Sheriff Gilbertson.”
Washington, D.C., is flush with new tax revenue… and Wall Street is riding high with the big stock indexes near record highs. Meanwhile, in places far from the centers of power, we’re seeing one of our forecasts play out. Now nearly two years old, we said the “mother of all financial bubbles” would make itself felt first on the local level.
Josephine County, Ore. — population 83,000 — sits on the California state line. As long ago as 2007, the county government ran out of money for the libraries and shut them down; they’ve since reopened under the auspices of a nonprofit group.
“I don’t have anybody to send out there,” said the 911 dispatcher to the woman who was about to be raped in her own home. “Can you ask him to go away?”
It happened in Josephine County last August. The story “went viral” only last week. The intruder — the woman’s abusive ex-boyfriend — eventually broke in, attacked and fled. Then police swung into action and arrested him.
“If you don’t pay the bill, you don’t get the service,” said Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson. Budget cuts, he says, make it impossible to respond to emergency calls on evenings and weekends.
“What’s left of the Josephine County Sheriff’s Dept. is basically only available 9-5,” concurs the HuffPo commenter.
“You may want to consider relocating to an area with adequate law enforcement services,” the sheriff added helpfully.
The Sheriff’s office does, however, have the resources to carry out marijuana raids.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailyreckoning.com ...
Thank you, civil forfeiture. And Federal sweeteners. Wow.
It’s the federal sweeteners in this case. Sheriff gets half a mil for being tough on drugs. Nothing for stopping rapes.
Does the article mention the root of the problem is “inviral-mental” restrictions on timber harvest as it in in Humboldt and Trinity counties in Cal?
Well, as the good Sheriff says, “If you don’t pay the bill, you don’t get the service.”
Therefore he shouldn’t complain when the public serves themselves. We need more of this. If cops want to play drug warrior before protecting the public, they get what they deserve.
No, you still get serviced.
Agenda 21 the culprit.
Actually, yes. FTA:
“Federal forests make up 60% of the land in many rural Oregon counties,” explains the Portland Oregonian. “Because federal land isn’t subject to property taxes, the federal government for decades shared timber sale revenue with the counties.
“But that money dried up as environmental restrictions, lawsuits, recession and market changes reduced logging on federal forests by 90% since 1989. The change cost counties millions.”
Balistic services included? Court hearings? Finger printing?
Fire away, civilians!!
You and your God given right to defend yourself unleashed!
Time to take the Federal lands from the Feds and give them to the states so people can have jobs. Why should fat cats from DC care about managing the forests?
Pray for America to Wake Up
The great federal pre-emptive wealth sucking machine is being used to demean and diminish the roles and capabilities of state and local governments, a key and essential tactic in the campaign to destroy federalism and fundamentally transform the constitutional federated republic of America into a unitary socialist republic with the present states reduced to the status of geographic provinces ruled by the central autocracy.
“Time to take the Federal lands from the Feds and give them to the states”
They’d still be subject to enviro regs. In our area, we had two fires last summer that burned several hundred thousand acres of timber. Two federal agencies would love to sell the burned timber, but won’t bother trying because they have been threatened with law suits by the enviros if they do. The state has already logged their burned ground because they are small potatoes and the enviro weenies can’t be bothered with them. If they were the only game in town, they would become a target just like the feds.
I live in Eugene, Oregon.
My Grandfather worked the Tillamook Burn.
He worked hard, saved his money, and then purchased a saw mill. Eventually the business grew to include a logging company and a green veneer mill. He was one of the largest employers in the city, and he gave back to the city so much - the Eugene Mission was built from lumber that he donated.
He had always told me that hard work and honesty was all a man needed to become successful.
When the enviropukes started to shut down the timber industry in Oregon I was about 10 years old. Eventually I watched my Grandfather as he aged 20 years in only 10 - because he fought the bastards (believing that his paradigm about hard honest work would prevail) - and it took its toll on him. He kept the mill running as best as he could, losing money, because he was loyal to his employees. “Where else will they find work to support their families?”, he would say whenever anyone questioned his willingness to lose money in the business.
Eventually, he had lost enough that he was close to wasting away his ability to provide for his retirement, and he was forced to shut down.
Now those same environazi pukes are crying because they don’t have enough money to support the city and the county.
I say, “F#ck those idiots!!!” They wanted to have their cake and eat it, too; well, reality is a b*tch and I must say that I enjoy their whining and pleading for money - they can all eat sh*t in my opinion.
“The great federal pre-emptive wealth sucking machine is being used to demean and diminish the roles and capabilities of state and local governments, a key and essential tactic in the campaign to destroy federalism and fundamentally transform the constitutional federated republic of America into a unitary socialist republic with the present states reduced to the status of geographic provinces ruled by the central autocracy.”
Translation: Democrats can’t have people flee high-tax socialist toilets for greener pastures in low-tax, business/taxpayer friendly environments. They must make Texas as costly as California, so the Red (communist) states don’t become ghost towns.
Yeah BUT you should look at the actual numbers, THEN look at PERS liabilities.
The timber decline is a big issue for jobs and the private sector economy, but for county governments it is but a scapegoat.
A couple years ago the sheriff in Lane County was doing the same thing and still is, turning violent jail inmates loose and crying about timber revenue. And sure, the federal government has no legitimate business owning and controlling most of the forest land, but the budget losses to counties because of that are a pittance compared to their PERS liabilities.
Both fronts need to be fought, but for the right reasons.
The root of the problem is public employee retirement funds...
But, nobody wants to talk about that.
Hammer meet nail!
Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) is eating up all of the budgets...
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