Comments on Advance Indiana™: City Confirms $50 Million Shortfall

Gary, I am happy to hear you publicly admit the co...

2010-08-12T08:43:09.892-05:00

Gary, I am happy to hear you publicly admit the conclusions you have come to know are truth.

This knowledge is where the path leads.

dc, I don't know if you've followed budget...

2010-08-12T01:30:05.794-05:00

dc, I don't know if you've followed budgets in recent years, but parks and rec is operating on a significantly reduced budget. The only reason it got an increase in 2008 was to fix leaking pools. It's not shoe string like animal control is, but I wouldn't put it past this town's politicians to get it to that point in 2-3 years.

Reduce spending by X% across the board until we de...

2010-08-11T21:33:03.970-05:00

Reduce spending by X% across the board until we descend from fantasy to the reality of what's important.

What's "important" and what isn't? By my estimation- I think stop the subsidation of professional sports teams. It will cost money to keep the stadiums minimally maintained, but apparently more money to stay in the stadium-rebuild loop as a medium market. Reduce the parks & recreation budgeting. Reduce funding for the Arts. Reduce garbage pick-ups. Reduce operational hours of city offices. Stop spending money on benefits for non-citizens this side of emergency care. Cap dysfunctional parenting reunification attempts. Bring back multi-unit foster care instead of the money we spend for one kid in one home.

If this sounds hateful and draconian, then what are your suggestions? I'm trying to leave public safety & education alone while more successfully protecting children.

You think you can reap more taxes in this economy out of Marion county taxpayers and businesses? Remember-Federal taxes go up next year and our health "reform" kicks-in further.

Points well taken, dearest Gary. My heart aches.

2010-08-11T20:06:48.772-05:00

Points well taken, dearest Gary. My heart aches.

We aren't fighting these wars for Israel; we&#...

2010-08-11T19:17:02.866-05:00

We aren't fighting these wars for Israel; we're fighting these wars for the benefit of the military industrial complex President Eisenhower warned us about before leaving office. Unfortunately, we failed to heed his warning. They are the ones who have destroyed this country by carrying out assassinations, manipulating our electoral process and our economy to the point the people are virtuallly powerless and our constitution is practically meaningless. Our country has been brought to financial ruin and the blood is on the hands of the few who run this vast complex. Nothing is really what it appears any more.

All over the country cities and states are failing...

2010-08-11T19:02:34.765-05:00

All over the country cities and states are failing, and the unscrupulous powerful and wealthy are grabbing everything they can get, while the gettings good. (The guilty and aware in Indy know to whom in Indy I am referring.)

The USA is bankrupt from the cost of fighting wars for Israel, thanks to the influence of extremely influential powerful lobbies for Israel, and the federal government cannot afford to bail us out.

It's as if they don't even remember writin...

2010-08-11T16:07:00.917-05:00

It's as if they don't even remember writing those big checks for other things.

and to say "It's caused by the wages in Marion County being down from the prior year" is simply proof they are all incapable of managing a budget.

I don't know how much more so-called 'financial benefit' this city can handle from the CIB operations.

Do you suppose they just don't know that those parentheses on balance sheets means 'negative number?'