balancing tampa bay’s budget
I am in a sour mood. I am sure it is a great shock to a great many people in the bay area that I am upset. I mean, after all, this is Bob Hite’s last year on the air and hell the indictments on republican elected officials are soaring, and the lovely Gayle Guyardo is expecting some breaking news.
All this excitement has a downside. We in Tampa bay are in the midst of severe budget cuts. With our dilapidated school system, and pathetic transportation system, as well as the fact that I can’t find Jane Austen in some of the branches in our local libraries. And not to mention the shortage of accountability in my local government. There are going to be cutbacks.
As luck would have it I got a C- in accounting while attending the public school system in Connecticut. That would mean I would be in the Tampa bay chapter of Mensa. I kid, I kid the poorly educated. I have a surefire way of balancing the budget without having people lose their jobs or we - the citizens of Tampa bay - going without some valuable services.
MAKE BITCHES PAY US BACK.
Centro Ybor owes us a great deal of money. And the Tampa bay Buccaneers owe us money. Trump tower is not even close to being built and they owe us a truck load of money. What have we gotten in return for this? At least poor people have to wait in line for their welfare checks and food stamps. We have gotten almost none of our money back. When I borrowed 200 dollars from my Father (this is the man who loves me and raised me), that guy made me pay him back with interest and did not leave me alone till he got it.
STOP THE PIPE DREAM
We have a “spin straw into gold” we have put a great deal of money time and effort into this. While Al Gore hems and haws about global warming I get to see two smoke stacks billowing clouds darker than the dungeon in Dick Cheney’s basement. Tampa Bays one and only non-working desalinization plant is a complete waste of time, energy and just downright unhealthy. You know how many copies of sense and sensibilities that could buy?
SALARY CUTS
No, not the janitor. I am talking about the top down!!! That’s right. Some of you people have to come off with some dough; how many homes and businesses does Rose Ferlita own? You people do not need that much money - especially when the books I want are not in the library.
CONSERVE ENERGY
I have been inside my share of police vehicles. And I have seen my share of them waiting for me to do something wrong (I never disappoint). Why are these people sitting idle with the engine running for hours (I am Paying for that!!!!) during the many times I am sitting in the back seat, the car is as cold as the shoulder I get when I ask bay area editors to give me a column.
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT
My public officials get free health care. Well, not free - I am paying for it. You bitches need to go on diets. Start eating right. And exercise. Jog to work if you have to. Cut the pork out of your budget. Trans fat. The list goes on and on really… do you really need me to tell you which of you people have fat asses? You know who you are.
If just a couple of these things are done, we will not have to cut out municipal services that this community so desperately needs. Our libraries need books, our schools need to have windows that aren’t broken, and our educators need tools, not ultimatums. Just a thought.
I could be wrong; I was only a c student.
Tags: city, county, government, tax waste
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July 23rd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
As luck would have it I got a C- in accounting while attending the public school system in Connecticut. That would mean I would be in the Tampa bay chapter of Mensa.
oh sh*t brother that is COLD. But having a roommate who is an accounting major from Connecticut, I can follow you.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
C student from Connecticut? That means you could be Preznit!
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I agree, they spend too much of our money and Executives need to take even a 1-2% cut in salary! It would not kill them individually but would help the county as a whole a lot!
July 24th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Do you really want to see the quality of candidates we would attract if we pay less? I mean this is what we get for the current price.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:03 am
I’m not sure “dilapidated” is an apt description of the Tampa Bay school system. By comparison to other markets of similar or larger size, it’s actually not bad. Some might say it’s good. Yes, there’s always room for improvement.
July 24th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
“Preznit”! Lordy that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I actually met a Tampa MENSA member once and best I can figure she got in only because the check cleared. And don’t even get me started on our county comishners.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Nice first post.. I definitely like the sound of make some bitches pay us back. The Bucs have the cash. We bought them a stadium with referendum, would it be possible to forcibly sell it back to them under referendum. Maybe with an impossible escape claus.. ” unless the devil rays win the pennant”
July 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I mourn the retirement of Bob, and hope that his co-anchor quickly follows suit… put her out to pasture!
July 27th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I would really like an accounting of the money that is set aside to be spent on public art and public spaces whenever a developer puts something in. How much of the money from Channelside and downtown developers do you think has been spent on Riverwalk, which is supposed to be supported privately. Looking at the commercials that air and who sponsors them, all I can think is how that money could be used for so many other things, like keeping pools open and what I want: a library open 24hrs that has your Jane Austen.