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• Obama and Congress insult us again

  —TaxingTennessee

  This article is about the Obama administration creating a commission to recommend solutions to the deficit. What a complete and total CROCK!!
  Barack Obama and the Congress have NO intent to cut anything except the budgets of taxpaying families as they are forced to pay higher taxes.
  This is a [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 9:07am EST
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• We are all San Francisco NOW

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  It's time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year's city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for the entire state of Idaho — for roughly 800,000 residents. Yet despite that stratospheric [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 8:14am EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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• Mexico's Government Debt Downgraded

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  For years, Mexico's policymakers have avoided taking the tough medicine the country needs to boost its tax revenue and reduce its singular dependence on oil revenues. Congress had a chance recently to push through meaningful fiscal reform during a debate over the 2010 budget, but legislators balked at [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:43am EST
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• Nice catch, local media

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  The symbolism of launching an effort to involve the public more in a construction project that will hit them the hardest in front of the main library, which was closed to the public due to mayoral budget cuts, was not lost on at least two reporters yesterday.
  
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:03am EST
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• Will sign the petition for a more democratic Metro budget process

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  Mayor Dean has motivated me to do something I never thought I would do: support a referendum on an individual Metro budget item, albeit the largest capital project in Nashville history. I'm going to sign the petition that with enough signatures could leverage public input' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:54pm EST
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• The Lunch Deception

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  I always had to bring my lunch to school. The cost of school lunches was too costly for our family budget. I went to a private school and I guess my parents figured that if they were already paying for my education, they didn’t need to also pay for my [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:22pm EST
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• Mayor's Office admits no plan for dealing with budget shortfalls due to convention center

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  Rich Riebeling told Metro Council last week that the Mayor's office is not going to deal with the question of making up a $14 million deficit caused by plans for the Music City Center until they consider the 2010-11 budget at the end of next spring (council will probably vote [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 12:27am EST
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• "Use Axes, Not Taxes" NY Tax Protest

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  Axes to cut the budget, that is.
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  "I've been here for 24 years," said John Katsogridakis, an insurance broker who works with the civic group Yes We Care. "There have to be cuts and reductions. We can't accept this increase."

  He carried a sign [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:18am EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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• New Republicans

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  I love Senator DeMint’s passion.  He’s right on.

  Senator Jim DeMint: “I need some new Republicans, people who believe in constitutional government, a balanced budget and liberty and so I’m out across the country recruiting new republicans who I think if they get here will not only challenge the institutions of [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 7:55pm EST
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• UK Healthcare system scraps Billion dollar

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  electronic records system.
  This is the sort of "efficiency" that awaits us with Obamacare.
  LinkThe multibillion-pound national progamme to overhaul NHS computer systems could be cancelled in this week’s Pre-Budget Report, Alistair Darling has said.
  
  The National Programme for IT (NPfIT), parts of which are already running [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:22pm EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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• Huge Cost overruns for LA Rail

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  Expo Line project costs and delays are ballooning -- latimes.com: The Expo Line, the first rail project into the traffic-clogged Westside, is $220 million over its original budget and more than a year behind schedule, with officials saying additional delays and costs are possible.
  
  The line was supposed [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:14pm EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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• Cool Google Street View – Pompeii Ruins

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  So budget woes have kept you from taking a holiday vacation this year. Same here for the Squirrel Queen. For those of us who spend hours watching the Discovery and History channels, this will be a perfect alternative to that whirlwind trip around the world. Instead of forking over wads of cash to [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:38am EST
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• 2010 Budget Deficit running ahead of last year's record

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  Barack Obama is on track to set another record for the federal budget deficit in 2010.
  Last year's $1.4 trillion deficit was triple the previous record and this year looks to be even bigger.
  And to add insult to injury, the Obama administration is promoting mickey mouse ideas [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:34am EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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• Council Member responds to Goldman Sachs' claim on the Metro budget by underscoring mayoral promises broken

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  CM Emily Evans took it to Goldman Sachs last night, thus reminding us that the Metro Charter established the Metro Council to be more than just a rubber stamp for the Mayor's capital projects. Otherwise, accountability seems against Metro Council's grain lately:
  While the projections show the visitor taxes [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:56am EST
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• Proportionality?

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  Remember the Metro Finance Director's sense of urgency about Metro Parks budget overages and his consternation towards the Parks Department, whose mission involves serving Nashvillians?
  
  
  
  The Dean administration seems to be taking a chilled out approach to the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency's' [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:30pm EST
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• New local blog by those concerned about the proposed convention center

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  Nashville's Priorities launches a new blogging effort to promote greater public consideration of the impact of a new convention center on Metro Nashville's budget, programs, and services to taxpayers. Be an informed citizen and please avail yourself of their views on construction of the massive Music City Center. Don't' [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:06pm EST
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• Blue-faced, lying and misleading

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  Blogging CM Emily Evans is more charitable toward mainstream columnist Gail Kerr's Sunday Tennessean piece than I was while she still challenges Kerr's assumptions about mayoral budget options:
  Missing from Gail's analysis is the outcome of the convention center debate. If the convention center is approved, it very [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:31am EST
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• Posing the handicapper but effectively sandbagging on the Mayor's next budget

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  If Gail Kerr didn't have a writing history of uncritically pandering to this Mayor's Office, we might be able to accept her Sunday column describing how hard it will be for Karl Dean next year as sober realism. However--after being coached to write on behalf of the Mayor's convention' [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:19pm EST
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• Are legislative bodies capable of cutting spending?

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  NO, they are NOT.
  In Tennessee the Governor is reducing spending and the legislature will go along but the General Assembly would never have been able to come to a consensus if the Governor had said, "HERE, you create a budget."
  In California and New York there is no strong [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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• Uncritical Faith?

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  CM Ronnie Steine can't come up with a single reason to question Mayor Karl Dean on the convention center:
  Councilman Ronnie Steine, chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, said the council would "owe it to the mayor" to hear his rationale if he submits the hotel financing at' [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:55pm EST
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• Gov Phil says every member of Congress should

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  be forced to sit with him in the budget hearings on Medicaid to appreciate how much extra expense they will be adding to State Budgets because of Congress healthcare "reform" proposals.
  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:09pm EST
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• How tight is the Tennessee State Budget this Year?

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  Governor Bredesen talks to Education Commissioner Webb about the need for teachers to help in this budget year. From the Budget Hearings on Monday November 16,2009.
  
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:39am EST
  

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• Metro Finance talking points against Parks derailed

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  The attempts at the courthouse and in the mainstream media to make Metro Parks and Recreation a pariah, in spite of the fact that budget overages occur in other Metro departments, look like they are coming apart at the seams. One does not have to be a fan of the [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:32am EST
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• How tight is the Tennessee State Budget this year?

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  Pretty darn tight. Governor Bredesen talks to Education Commissioner Webb asking him why is it not reasonable to ask teachers to help. This video from the Budget hearing today.
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:01pm EST
  by Ben Cunningham

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