Reichert Proposes 2011 Budget

I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am again this morning.  You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com.  The phone number is (478) 742-0940.

 

Mayor Robert Reichert presented his 2011 budget to the City Council last night, and it isn't bad.  It spends nearly half of all the money on fire and police, includes no new taxes and a pay scale for city employees.  I'm just wondering how the city can afford to spend more money in 2011 than it did in 2010.

 

The City Council last night voted to give the contract for the pools to the second lowest bidder rather than going with the local guy.  The local guy took to the Telegraph to defend himself, but it was too late.

 

Why is it necessary for the search for a new Bibb Schools Superintendent to include bringing in five specialized search firms?

 

This is more like it:  local musicians are going to try to raise money for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

 

Charles Richardson claims that the county will have to raise taxes to balance its budget this year.

 

Macon and Bibb County have agreed to merge animal control.

 

Three thugs were indicted for a murder that happened in December.

 

The Macon Telegraph is wrong in calling the failure to read about 900 mammograms a "mistake."  It was not a mistake, it was laziness and incompetence.

 

The Houston County Board of Education decided that they will get rid of many of the part-time retired employees.  They also claim to have cut a lot of fat from the Central Office.

 

After watching the second part of the Fox5 report on Highway 96, I am even more convinced that this was nothing but an attempted hatchet job on Governor Perdue by Dale Russell.

 

After sending out an e-mail to alumni asking them to tell the General Assembly to preserve funding for Mercer University, President William Underwood is happy to send out another one pointing out that Mercer will actually get more tax dollars this year than they did last year.

 

The AARP and other welfare-baiting groups are asking Governor Perdue to veto the bill that eliminates the refundable portion of a tax credit for poor people.

 

Tuition at schools in the University System of Georgia will increase by up to 16% next year.  Thank goodness the students are already home, so we can be spared campus protests.

 

Former State Senator and current Republican candidate for Governor Eric Johnson wants students to be required to prove that they are legal citizens of the United States before they are allowed to attend Georgia taxpayer-funded colleges.  Makes perfect sense to me.

 

Don't believe this claim that taxes are lower this year.  The only reason people are paying fewer taxes is because fewer people are paying taxes.

 

Young people today trust the federal government.  If you notice, however, that is only because they have extreme feelings of hopeychangeyness.

 

Here's a shocker:  As people move left on the ideological spectrum, they also tend to know much less about economics.

 

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) thinks that climate science should be explained on a sixth-grade level.  That's still too advanced for most members of Congress, and for many of their constituents.

 

In a real emergency, a drifting satellite could threaten cable television programming.  We have to nuke the drifting satellite.