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Abunai's comments
Posted Wed, Oct 7, 1:13 p.m.
Just reread the article - so the general fund, which covers courts and police, will spend $622 million, or about 12% of the total budget. Meanwhile, 88% of the budget is 'legally dedicated' to specific programs? Uh, okay... I get it! Lets get everybody excited about 'necessary' cuts to the ...
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 7, 8:37 a.m.
Again, how does the spending increase correlate to workload? Back in the day I worked with OMB in DC, so am pretty aware of how the games work - talk about cutting corrections, police, the Washington Monument. Ignore programs and spending with less public support. Until the County honestly justifies ...
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 6, 6:38 p.m.
Is the revenue equivalent to, say 2006 or 2007, or is it below that? I can't find any specific data on the King County site - there don't seem to seem to be any annual summaries. Rationally, it's hard to believe the County is being prudent with spending when staff ...
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 6, 4:44 p.m.
You sure it's not a spending problem? It seems to me that as areas (and population) that the County is responsible for decline, spending should decline as well. Instead, over the past decade or so, as a dozen or so cities incorporated (and the County ceased providing services) staff actually ...
MOREPosted Wed, May 6, 5:19 a.m.
Why do Government aficionados and state employees feel entitled to an ever expanding 'stable' revenue stream for the Government? As citizens, our revenue isn't guaranteed or stable, much less expanding. Maybe the State Government should get rid of stolid, rigid programs and hiring/staffing procedures, and figure out how to gracefully ...
MOREPosted Wed, Mar 18, 1:20 p.m.
Too liberal for too long. The PI was hemorrhaging readers at a far higher rate than the Times - why was that? Because the PI aggressively alienated conservatives and moderates. Ideological purity - intact. Ongoing enterprise with viable business - not so much.
MOREPosted Thu, Mar 12, 10:35 a.m.
ruffner, as well as Burbank, are blowing smoke. Let's see - an $8.3 billion deficit. Where have I seen that number before? Oh right, it's almost exactly the same as the increase in spending during Gregoire's first term. She blew through the rainy day fund and increased spending by $8 ...
MOREPosted Sat, Sep 13, 6:26 p.m.
Sounds like wishful thinking - Washington is in Play!: On 9/10, in a survey of 500 likely voters, Rasmussen has Obama up by only 2, losing 10 points since August. Trending does not look good in other polls either. Obama is going to have to earn Washington. Looks like the ...
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