chickens come home to roost

All of those Council members who have voted in the past to spend outrageous and unnecessary amounts of money on various city projects will be hard-pressed to explain them to the people over the next couple months. Those who have refused to monitor and supervise the City Manager will find it difficult to explain WHY they didnt take that obligation and elective responsibility seriously. If they have no clue as to what they are supposed to be doing, they should be replaced. If they have an idea, but were just too lazy, they should be replaced. If they know what their elective responsibilities are, but just DONT CARE, they should be replaced. If they know what they should be doing, but dont do it because it interfers with their personal or political agendas, they should be replaced. In these times of recession and instability we can no longer afford to have clueless, lazy, unconcerned, or overtly ambitious representation that ignores the wants and needs of the residents. Raising taxes and fees, borrowing millions in a recession at high interest rates to build a new multi-million dollar gym that the people didnt even get to vote on is but one example of a Council out of control and out of touch with what the people want and can afford. They stopped listening a LONG time ago.

Joe is lazy?

I agree that people should work for their money. Do something. Anything. Does the rich include Joe Lunchbucket in as one of those lazy do-nothings? He lost his house maybe, and his job due to the greed and corruption on Wall Street and Every Street- he is ready, willing, and able to work but there is no work available, due to no fault of his own. The deregulators allowed Wall Street and the banking industry to run wild without any oversight or responsibility until they ran it into the ground. Now they want Joe and his fellow taxpayers to bail their sorry butts out ! Hypocrites who want NO government interference UNTIL they have robbed and plundered everything they can, getting wealthy in the process, with NO concern for the possible effects on anybody else. THEN they want us to bail them out. Those crooks and greedy SOBs need jail time, at least.