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Cash Strapped Houston sells off $2 million worth of city streets.


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2017 Jun 12, 1:46pm   1,059 views  9 comments

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http://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Cash-strapped-city-sells-some-streets-11213664.php

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1   Blurtman   2017 Jun 12, 3:48pm  

None shall pass!

2   Shaman   2017 Jun 12, 3:52pm  

What is your favorite color?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen African swallow?

3   Ceffer   2017 Jun 12, 3:54pm  

Who's going to wash off all the chalk outlines of human bodies?

4   Blurtman   2017 Jun 12, 3:57pm  

African or European swallow?

5   Ceffer   2017 Jun 12, 4:16pm  

Quigley says

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen African swallow?

Is that with or without a lit firecracker in it's ass?

6   Automan Empire   2017 Jun 12, 5:34pm  

Texas spent a lot of money recruiting California residents and companies to come live there in the land of low taxes and laissez-faire government. Now the infrastructure (roads in particular) is terribly overburdened and years behind the population boom, with no revenues in sight to catch up. There will come an era of tax reckoning.

7   Patrick   2024 Mar 29, 5:18pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/houstons-democrat-mayor-admits-city-broke-tens-millions-debt/


Houston’s Democrat Mayor Admits His City Is Broke, Tens of Millions in Debt

Houston’s Democrat mayor has admitted that his city is broke after decades of overspending.

During a meeting with Houston officials, Mayor John Whitmire admitted that the country’s fourth-largest city is tens of millions of dollars in debt.

Whitmire was elected in December, overwhelmingly defeating Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (R-TX).

Now, Whitmire has revealed that the city is staring down a deficit of $160 million.
8   HeadSet   2024 Mar 30, 7:40am  

Patrick says

Now, Whitmire has revealed that the city is staring down a deficit of $160 million.

That sounds like chump change in an era where $100 billion is sent to Ukraine and that $160 million would only buy about one F-35 or about one F-15EX fighter. Hell, just the school board budget for Fairfax County in Virginia is over twenty times that size ($3.5 billion).
9   RWSGFY   2024 Mar 30, 11:46am  

HeadSet says


Patrick says


Now, Whitmire has revealed that the city is staring down a deficit of $160 million.

That sounds like chump change in an era where $100 billion is sent to Ukraine and that $160 million would only buy about one F-35 or about one F-15EX fighter. Hell, just the school board budget for Fairfax County in Virginia is over twenty times that size ($3.5 billion).



Yep, all of the above is fucking peanuts in a country with ~$6T Federal budget even on the stated face values, let alone real numbers.

Itʼs like me worrying at work that I left my phone charger plugged back home and it's ramping up my electricity bill.

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