More gubmint budget insanity.

[LWW]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.
That's how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture that would go in front of the new police and courts building right by the City Hall. </div></div>

HOW DARE ANYONE QUESTION GOVERNMENT (http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/13219)

LWW

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It happens everywhere.
Our school system is laying off teachers, but we are going to extend our 8 mile long light rail train by 2 city blocks...at a cost of $9,000 per <u>foot</u>!.

Big, new, shiney things are more sexy than essential services. Especially when you are spending other people's money!

Steve

[LWW]

You have expressed non party approved thought ... room 101.

LWW