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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen African swallow?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen African swallow?
Is that with or without a lit firecracker in it's ass?
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.
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.
Now, Whitmire has revealed that the city is staring down a deficit of $160 million.
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).
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Cash-strapped-city-sells-some-streets-11213664.php