Posted on 03/28/2024 7:29:46 AM PDT by Sam77
Houston’s Democratic mayor has admitted that his city, the fourth largest in the U.S., is in millions of dollars worth of debt and cannot afford to pay for firefighters.
Mayor John Whitmire, elected after defeating Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee last year, sounded the alarm about his city’s money woes in a meeting.
As the city now faces a deficit of $160 million, Whitmireis proposes spending cuts and tax increases to tackle the massive damage done by his Democratic predecessors.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyfetched.com ...
He could start cutting out DEI initiatives. That might help
Oh no, we can’t ever do that!!!
I’m not one of the elite who knows better than everyone else how to run the world but... maybe you could try getting back to doing your job rather than funding ideological projects and enriching your friends. Just a thought.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. - Margaret Thatcher
This is interesting considering the Houston metro area led the US in 2023 with over 60M housing starts/permits. Putting Dallas/Ft Worth into second place as far as sheer volume of houses being built.
Those Katrina cultural enrichers did wonders for BTR. It’s richer than ever because of them.
Yeah, better to raise taxes, cut firefighters and police salaries - and keep DEI bean counters and diversity officers making $200,000/year.
I expect an exodus out of Houston.
Typical Democrat success story. Run something into the ground then look around for someone to pay for their mistake.
Stop spending money on welfare and you’ll have more than you need to run government.
“Run something into the ground then look around for someone to pay for their mistake.”
Then run the bailout into the ground.
They won’t cut a bloated bureaucracy.
Councils in the UK work the same way.
With similar results.
The welfare spending is someone of it.
But I’ll bet public employee salaries, pensions, and healthcare bennies are a bigger chunk...
From last year...
Look what comes first.
So going exactly as planned in other words?
Buried in this link from last year...
“...This isn’t the first brush Houston has had with fiscal disaster in recent years. The city had underfunded its pension system for municipal workers by about $8 billion before enacting reforms in 2017. Brown said the current shortfall, while smaller, is more pressing...”
Reforms...
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Good one!
No doubt, case in point, NY has the most bloated public payroll in the country.
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