Democrats Gone Wild
Wet t-shirts are all that’s missing from the wanton binge-spending spree our Democrat-controlled board of commissioners has blazed under the leadership of Chairperson Jennifer Roberts.
There’s simply no other way to put it, which is what made Roberts’s retort at this week’s commissioners’ meeting, that Democrats weren’t wholly responsible for the financial mess in which the county is mired, that it wasn’t “Democrats gone wild”, all the more disingenuous.
They are directly responsible, and any librarian, schoolteacher or social worker that loses a job because of budget cuts should remember that fact. So should voters.
Over the last half-decade, Democrat commissioners were warned time and again that the wild spending taking place under their watch and at their direction was putting Mecklenburg in dire financial peril. They chose to ignore every warning at every turn, self-deluding themselves that the giddy days of double-digit tax hauls would last forever, that there would be no consequence for reckless behavior.
That’s not opinion; it’s simple fact. When tax-and-spend liberals of Roberts’ ilk were warned that the county’s debt capacity was spinning out of control, their solution was to grab a bigger credit card and keep spending. Spending on questionable and completely discretionary programs that provided more vote-grabbing capital than public benefit; spending on political bribes that passed for business incentives; spending on grandiose visions that were monuments to their own egos.
Under their watch, money taken from your pocket to pay their debt has ballooned from an already high $3,600 per year to $4,200 per year and climbing, while the amount of the county’s operating budget used for paying down debt has skyrocketed to an apex that threatens Mecklenburg’s credit rating and jeopardizes its ability to provide basic services to residents.
After hearing county staff roll out forecasts that called for budget cuts of up to $95 million, Roberts said she felt like “I’m sitting underwater right now, instead of at the dais.”
It’s called drowning in debt, Jennifer. Thanks for that.
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