Houston’s Democratic mayor reveals the Texas city is BROKE with a $160 MILLION deficit and has stopped the city from paying firefighters

[Weatherman2020]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I say we go back to the olden days where each property paid the firefighters and police for their services and if you dont pay, tough shit. As typical of Marxists, they now have made it where no one will get the services incase of emergency. Maybe it is time to torch the mayor's house and see how it feels not having the firefighters show up?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The greedy corrupt Dems loot the taxpayers, and then they demand a tax increase.

 

[Concerned American]

Spokane has a democrat mayor who has been in office for four months and she notified citizens that the city was projected to have a 50 million deficit. Her solution was not to cut homeless social services. Nope, it was to announce that she was going to combat it with a "public safety levy" because the citizens should have police, fire and street maintenance. How about paying for public safety before feeding the bears.

 

[White 6]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Where was the part about stopping paying firefighters, or did you make that up, so people would read your thread?

 

[Concerned American]

Where was the part about stopping paying firefighters, or did you make that up, so people would read your thread?

Maybe you should read the headline of the article.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire says city is 'broke' after decades of overspending that has stopped them from being able to pay firefighters​

 

[White 6]

Maybe you should read the headline of the article.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire says city is 'broke' after decades of overspending that has stopped them from being able to pay firefighters​

Hasn't stopped them yet, according to the article, unless it left quotes from that part of the meeting out for some reason. You would think a quote like that would be the most important part of the article, unless it didn't happen.

 

[Concerned American]

Hasn't stopped them yet, according to the article, unless it left quotes from that part of the meeting out for some reason. You would think a quote like that would be the most important part of the article, unless it didn't happen.

The headline is part of the article and subject to the same libel and slander laws as the body. Sorry you don't agree with the source. Partisan bias has a tendency to grasp at straws like that.

 

[skews13]

Where was the part about stopping paying firefighters, or did you make that up, so people would read your thread?

'COVID really silenced the conversation because we got so much money from the federal government that we were able to make our budgets work, but really, this problem started 20 years ago, almost a quarter of a century ago, with the pension funds,' John Diamond, Center for Public Finance Director at Rice University, told KTRK.

And guess what the mayor wants to apply a 5% across the board cuts to?

You guessed it - Pension Funds for firefighters, police, and other city employees.

If you look at any city around the country, most of them face budget issues because?

You guessed it - Pension funds for firefighters, police, and other city workers.

These pension funds are unsustainable, and have to be revamped. There are police and firefighters that are jobs less than a year, and get pension money for a strained back, and many of these same "heros' are double dipping from other jurisdictions, and in some cases have been fired from other departments, and get new jobs in another city.

There is no bigger welfare queen on the planet than city, and state employees with their overly generous pension funds, that prevent all of these cities from being able to provide other needed services to it's citizens.

All of Americas mayors need to have a summit, and completely redo the pension system for it's workers. The first being that if you don't have 20 years of service, there is no pension. And if you "strain your back", you can get workers compensation like everybody else, if you are out of work long enough. And if you are a jurisdiction hopper to try and double dip, that shit don't fly no more. If you hop from place to place, there is no pension for job injury, and unless you've got 20 years, there are no pension benefits for you.

All of these local government employees can get matched 401Ks like their private counterparts up to 6% of their pay, so if they retire early, that is what they will have to live on, unless they have another job lined up. You know. Like everybody else.

 

[Concerned American]

'COVID really silenced the conversation because we got so much money from the federal government that we were able to make our budgets work, but really, this problem started 20 years ago, almost a quarter of a century ago, with the pension funds,' John Diamond, Center for Public Finance Director at Rice University, told KTRK.

And guess what the mayor wants to apply a 5% across the board cuts to?

You guessed it - Pension Funds for firefighters, police, and other city employees.

If you look at any city around the country, most of them face budget issues because?

You guessed it - Pension funds for firefighters, police, and other city workers.

These pension funds are unsustainable, and have to be revamped. There are police and firefighters that are jobs less than a year, and get pension money for a strained back, and many of these same "heros' are double dipping from other jurisdictions, and in some cases have been fired from other departments, and get new jobs in another city.

There is no bigger welfare queen on the planet than city, and state employees with their overly generous pension funds, that prevent all of these cities from being able to provide other needed services to it's citizens.

All of Americas mayors need to have a summit, and completely redo the pension system for it's workers. The first being that if you don't have 20 years of service, there is no pension. And if you "strain your back", you can get workers compensation like everybody else, if you are out of work long enough. And if you are a jurisdiction hopper to try and double dip, that shit don't fly no more. If you hop from place to place, there is no pension for job injury, and unless you've got 20 years, there are no pension benefits for you.

All of these local government employees can get matched 401Ks like their private counterparts up to 6% of their pay, so if they retire early, that is what they will have to live on, unless they have another job lined up. You know. Like everybody else.

What!!!!? Skrewy is against a democrat giveaway program????? WOW, the temperature in hell must be -60K.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Where was the part about stopping paying firefighters, or did you make that up, so people would read your thread?

Let me guess...you're one of those liberals that still think progressive policies make people's lives better? What will it take to wake your ass up, White? Are the blinders you wear REALLY not letting you see what's happening in America?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Fire fighters have voted for democrats for years to get more pay and benefits. Am I supposed to be upset they’re going to lose that grift now?

 

[White 6]

The headline is part of the article and subject to the same libel and slander laws as the body. Sorry you don't agree with the source. Partisan bias has a tendency to grasp at straws like that.

Sorry the "source" didn't do more thorough reporting. How many articles out of that city have you seen of firement or policemen not getting a paycheck. Where are the stories of the mass exodus to other parts of Texas, since trained Texas certified firefighters don't grow on trees? If they had a story, you would think it was backed up by quotes supporting the headline. Sounds like shitty leadership in elected office over the years and shitty journalism in the local paper.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Sorry the "source" didn't do more thorough reporting. How many articles out of that city have you seen of firement or policemen not getting a paycheck. Where are the stories of the mass exodus to other parts of Texas, since trained Texas certified firefighters don't grow on trees? If they had a story, you would think it was backed up by quotes supporting the headline. Sounds like shitty leadership in elected office over the years and shitty journalism in the local paper.

Did you just accuse the Democratic leadership of that city of being "shitty" at leadership skills, White?

 

[Thinker101]

Fire fighters have voted for democrats for years to get more pay and benefits. Am I supposed to be upset they’re going to lose that grift now?

Only if your house is on fire.

 

[candycorn]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

But they have 4 new sports stadiums...that are each empty for about 250 days a year.

 

[Foxfyre]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Houston has had I think two Republican mayors and probably has never had a GOP majority city council. The last GOP mayor ended his term in 1981, 43 years ago.

One of the first truths you learn in basic Economics 100 is that you can invest wisely and usually the return on your money is worth the risk. If you know how to properly run a business and do your homework on the available market, spending the money to start one up can yield good things. But never in the history of the world has any city, county, state, or country been able to spend itself rich using other people's money. There just isn't enough money.

 

[Zincwarrior]

You will note that EVERY city and State controlled by Democrats is not just in financial ruin, but crime riddled cesspools with taxpayers fleeing.

Last Republican Mayor of Houston was 1982.

Note you need Brit news to talk about the facts.

Houston mayor says city is BROKE after inheriting $160 million deficit

Democrat John Whitmire, who was elected in December, gave the bleak warning at a City Hill meeting this week where he proposed a five percent cut across all city spending.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Dumbass. Houston is the heart of Texas.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Fire fighters have voted for democrats for years to get more pay and benefits. Am I supposed to be upset they’re going to lose that grift now?

You hate firefighters now? Who exactly do you like Pudo?

 

[Concerned American]

Sounds like shitty leadership in elected office over the years and shitty journalism in the local paper.

I think your comment about the leadership was the point of the OP as for the journalistic integrity, take it up with them.
Trump has been pointing that out for at least seven years.