Papers Hide Mismanagement
The lamestream media told you:
Like cities nationwide, “Drastic cuts to hit Phoenix city services” says a screaming page-one headline in Gannett’s number two (after USA Today) newspaper, The Arizona Republic, on March 7. Emotional images show “victims” of the cuts, including seniors playing cards, a two-year-old in a pool and a library building.
The story however says, “Disastrous holiday sales will force Phoenix to slash more from its budget than planned… eating further into services provided by Police, Fire,” and other city services. The lead says weak holiday sales are the problem.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Following a discredited financial model that could bankrupt any ordinary business or family, cities continue to get into hot water by spending money they don’t have, hoping their revenues will increase in the future. Setting budgets based on guesswork about future taxes is called “insanity” by some experts.
Complicit in the corrupt accounting methods, “news” media identify the problem as weak consumer sales, and warn of threats to two-year-olds who use taxpayer-funded swimming pools and government-run senior centers. The most egregious deception, experts say, is the near constant alarm that essential services will be cut for fire, police, 911 and emergency medical services.
By accusing consumers of spending too little the blame is placed on the public instead of on politicians and city planners where it belongs. No mention of the problem of spending money you don’t have is included in the stories. That’s why they’re called, “stories.”
Politicians, refusing to go on the record, privately admit that you eliminate new carpeting, painting, building expansions, entitlement giveaways and salary increases before cutting police and fire services. “Essential services are cut last if ever,” said one high-ranking official on condition of anonymity. Reporters were apparently unable to obtain such information, instead threatening cuts to fire and police on page one.
In other news, the entire state approved a spending freeze, “as a way to move along sluggish negotiations on bridging the current-year budget gap.” The state finds itself in the same mess for identical reasons plaguing cities — they’ve planned to spend money they don’t have.
“The action in the House and Senate came on party-line votes, with Republicans voting for it and Democrats denouncing it as a waste of time.” The governor will likely veto the bill, with no mention of where the non-existent money might come from.
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