Democrats – and a few RINOs – start lining up for funds to cover their own stupid governing mistakes:
Three big city mayors asked the federal government Friday to use a portion of the $700 billion financial bailout to assist struggling cities.
The mayors sought help with their pension costs, infrastructure investment and cash-flow problems stemming from the global financial crisis.
The mayors—Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Shirley Franklin of Atlanta and Phil Gordon of Phoenix—made their request in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Nutter said cities are facing an economic crisis not seen since the Depression and need help just like financial institutions.
“I want to make sure that cities and metro areas are at the table, that their voices are being heard, that our challenges and problems are well understood, so that we can get relief,” Nutter said.
The big cities – even when they have a supposed Republican Mayor – are generally governed under the core liberal principle that you can spend forever, raise taxes like there’s no tomorrow and issue bonds like they’re going out of style and none of these chickens will come home to roost. After all, to the liberals, the money supply is endless and there’s no level of taxation, spending and regulation which will ever discourage business and/or convince those who can leave that the ‘burbs are a better option. After having spent themselves into oblivion (Philly, for instance, has three departments for housing issues – among a list of city agencies large enough to run the British Empire at its height), these useless and all too often corrupt big city leaders now want you, dear taxpayer, to bail them out. And Obama has encouraged this by saying he wants an element of bail out for profligate liberals in his government.
Get ready for the most recession-inducing and -deepening government free for all in human history, boys and girls: the Democrats are back in power and anyone who actually thought they’d show fiscal restraint and, indeed, common sense just hasn’t been paying attention for the past 40 years.
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