Public schools were showered with resources, public employees were paid generously, the uninsured were given health coverage and the poor were given tax breaks.
Now officials are scrambling not to run out of money by June 30.
Wonder what the Bond Rating agencies will have to say about THAT?
Quote of the day:
ReplyDelete"When there's a lot of money, it's fun to give it away," said Nancy Dacek, a former PTA leader who served for a dozen years on the Montgomery County Council, including during the region's last major downturn in the early 1990s.
Translation: Giving away other people's money fulfills some sort of inner need.
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