This time from Oakland, CA:
Oakland voters will likely be asked in November to approve higher taxes to halve a $42 million deficit, but even if they agree, the city will face an even deeper crisis within months.
Ballooning pension costs will push the city’s projected deficit to $58.7 million by July 2011.
The liberals who run Oakland have just spent and spent and spent the city in to oblivion. Every time the public sector unions made another pay and/or benefit demand, the city caved in. Every time some city politician got a bug in his ear and wanted some new spending, it was agree to.
The city has a Commission on Aging, a Children’s Fairyland Board, a Community Action Partnership Administrating Board, a Cultural Affairs Commission, an Inclusionary Housing Blue Ribbon Commission, a Paramount Theater of the Arts Board, a Department of Information Technology…and on and on.
A completely ruined city, run by liberals in to the ground.
There hasn’t been a Republican mayor of Oakland since 1966.
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