Coffee Party anyone? Bueller?

The Taxpayer's ears are still bleeding from this past Wednesday Night's Board of Supervisors meeting.  AND some citizens of bloat want the County to stay in the red at any costs.  Just look at the laundry list of requests from the RTD's writeup.

George Sproveri scolded the board for not considering a higher real estate tax rate to offset some of the cuts and help public schools. "The other four members of this board that turned down his proposal, turned down the equivalent -- on a $200,000 home -- of a cup of coffee a week to stop some of the educational hemorrhaging in this county,"

Here is a special note for King Citizen Bloat using The Taxpayer's calculator...

 A Starbuck's cup of coffee is $2.00 x 52 weeks x 120,000 Chesterfield's households = $12.5 Million Dollars... On average... that's one hundred bucks outta your pocket and into a system that is broke and bloated.  I'll keep the Benjamin thanks.

This will be fun.  We've got the calculator working overtime.  In FY2010, the school budget was $571.6M divided by (120,000 households x 52 weeks x $2.00) is 46 cups of coffee per week.  Yeah what's 47 to a bloated caffeine addict?

Tell you what King Citizen Bloat of the Chesterfield Education Mafia... You work on the transparency, the feigned outrage, and cutting the bloat. Then, The Taxpayer will gladly commit to confirming next year that the Earth did not stop rotating on its axis and the school system did not go into cardiac arrest (maybe renal failure as they seem incapable of filtering out waste)
 
The other bloated citizens with their hand out (absolutely disgraceful in a down economy) for government pork must think we are still living in 2007 or something.

Here is a great pictoral of our federal budget.  Let's pretend that the federal government does not raise taxes and they live within their means each year.  Currently, the federal government receives $2.3T each year and spends $3.6T.  That would be a 36% cut in spending.  Now let's say they begin to pay down the national debt currently at $12.6T and they want it to be gone in 20 years. That's another $0.6T cut per year.  So that would take the federal budget down to $1.7T.  We currently spend $3.6.  Think about all the "things" that the feds cover today.  Gone tomorrow? Are you prepared?

Get the picture folks.  Stop puttin' off the inevitable.  Tighten the belt. Drop down to 40 cups per week. No matter what it will be bumpy for The Taxpayer's children.