Alabama county going down the tubes -- "Worse than Detroit !! " -- Seantor Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III says "Don't bother me -- I've got to vote against the wise Latina."
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
August 1, 2009
Alabama Area Reeling in Face of Fiscal Crisis
By SHAILA DEWAN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It is hardly unusual these days for a government
building to forgo a fresh paint job or regular lawn care to cut costs.
But last week, the director of the Jefferson County public nursing
home was told that the county could no longer afford to bury indigent
patients.
Across town at the juvenile detention center, the man in charge was
trying to figure out how to feed the 28 children in his custody when
the entire cafeteria staff is let go. The tax collector warned local
school districts to expect a six-month delay to get their share of
property taxes. In family court, administrators plan to delay child
support, custody and child abuse cases, leaving some children in the
hands of the state indefinitely.
In every part of Jefferson County — Alabama’s most populous county and
its main economic engine — government managers have been scrambling to
prepare for Saturday, when two-thirds of county employees eligible for
layoffs — up to 1,400 — will be lost in an effort to stave off
financial ruin.
“Outside of the city of Detroit,” said Robert A. Kurrter, a managing
director with Moody’s Investors Service, “it’s fair to say we haven’t
seen any place in America with the severity of problems that they’re
experiencing in Jefferson County.” Moody’s rates Jefferson County’s
credit lower than any other municipality in the country.
In July, the county asked Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, to declare a
state of emergency. Mr. Riley declined, delicately explaining that his
authority extended to tornadoes but not to tsunamis of red ink.
Jefferson County, which includes Birmingham, could be compared to a
person who has lost his job, watched his retirement investments
evaporate and is stuck with a house that is worth less than what he
owes the bank. Some of the county’s woes stem from the financial
crisis that has pounded so many communities: its sales and property
tax revenues are down by $40 million, and it borrowed billions in a
sewer bond boondoggle that is the municipal equivalent of a subprime
mortgage, using failed exotic bond deals and swaps concocted by
investment bankers.
But the county has additional troubles: the sewer project was riddled
with corruption, and in January a court ruled that a tax the county
relied on for more than a quarter of its general fund was illegal
because the Legislature repealed it in 1999.
State lawmakers could easily fix that problem by re-enacting the tax,
but deliberations have dragged on even as the county has halted road
maintenance, delayed opening a courthouse, announced plans to close
half its customer service locations and asked department heads to
submit the names of those who would be laid off on Saturday.
Several lawmakers have accused the county commissioners of bluffing.
“We need to keep in mind that this tax was repealed 10 years ago,”
State Senator Scott Beason, a Republican, said Monday at the latest in
a series of inconclusive legislative meetings. “They went out and
continued to run up their debt, continued to spend all the money they
could find to spend, knowing that this day of reckoning was coming.”
Now, Mr. Beason said, the county was using its own employees as
“hostages.”
Such criticism was not limited to Republicans. “They are flat-out
lying,” State Representative John W. Rogers Jr., the Democratic co-
leader of the county’s delegation, said of the county’s financial
assessments. “What they’re basically doing is using scare tactics,
putting pressure on the Legislature.”
The tax that was ruled illegal, known as the occupational tax, is
essentially a 0.5 percent tax on income, but the phrase “income tax”
does not sit well with Alabamians. One of its peculiarities is that it
exempts a long list of professionals like doctors and lawyers, as well
as phrenologists, circus managers and crystal gazers. In 1999, state
lawmakers from Jefferson County, who are allowed by legislative
tradition to control the county’s ability to levy taxes, tried to
earmark part of the money for their own projects, and the county
balked.
In response, the lawmakers voted to repeal the tax. But the county,
buoyed by court rulings in its favor, continued to collect it,
bringing in about $75 million last year — more than 25 percent of the
county’s general fund.
In January, a judge ruled that the repeal was valid. Hoping lawmakers
would fix the problem, the judge allowed the county to continue to use
the tax until the end of the legislative session. But the Legislature
did nothing.
“It is their responsibility,” Bettye Fine Collins, a Republican and
the president of the County Commission, said after Tuesday’s
commission meeting. “They have complete authority over us.”
Republicans hold the majority in the county’s Senate delegation; the
House delegation is evenly divided. The County Commission is dominated
by Republicans, two of whom served in the Legislature in 1999 and
voted to repeal the tax, but are now begging for its reinstatement.
Mr. Rogers said he would strive to re-enact the tax, if only to prove
that it would not solve the county’s problems.
By that, he meant the sewer debacle, which has not helped the county’s
credibility with the Legislature. More than 20 people, including three
former county commissioners, have been convicted of bribery and
kickback schemes stemming from the sewer repairs. At the end of
August, Larry P. Langford, the former president of the County
Commission and now the Birmingham mayor, will be tried on corruption
charges relating to the sewer financing.
By then, the cuts in services will have taken hold. Probate Court will
shrink to 13 people, from 54, to process wills, adoptions, and
commitments of the mentally ill. There used to be 488 people repairing
roads and bridges; there will soon be 89. Doug McCutcheon, who has
worked in the county maintenance department for 24 years, will be out
of work, and so will his cousin Tim McCutcheon, who will have two
daughters in college in the fall.
Adrilisa Steele, 34, a juvenile probation officer, said, “We are
probably going to be standing in line for services like everyone
else.”
Ms. Steele meant lines for unemployment insurance and food stamps, but
at the courthouse, the lines for car tags or driver’s licenses were
already very long. People waited for more than two hours, fearful that
come Monday, those routine tasks would become much harder. The general
attitude, not surprisingly, was one of indiscriminate disgust. Neither
the commissioners, nor the legislators nor Wall Street escaped blame.
“The big dogs ate all the bones,” said Mansoor Butt, 55, a store
owner. “Now we are all out of bones. The chips are gone, and the poker
game’s gone. You can’t play poker without any chips.”
Patriot Games
Names" <theprop...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:36:01 -0700 (PDT), "Kickin' Ass and Takin'
>
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And how's that reporting working out for you???
Heh, heh.
Patriot Games
Let's see:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:12:42 -0400, "Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names"
<oldre...@hillbilly.net> wrote:
>"Patriot Games" <Pat...@America.Com> wrote in message
>news:l1g8r456rl58mhbpn...@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:08:46 -0700 (PDT), "Kickin' Ass and Takin'
>> Names" <old_r...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Does this look familiar:
>> "This account has been banned because it violated the Google Groups
>> Terms Of Use."
>> Hahahahahahahahahah!!!
>> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!
>So why am I still posting??
Because you're using:
From: "Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names" <oldre...@hillbilly.net>
Google BANNED:
From: "Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names" <PopUl...@hotmail.com>
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Go here then click on "View Profile"
Or go here then click on "View Profile"
And you'll get: "This account has been banned because it violated the
Google Groups Terms Of Use."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
====================
You're the PROVEN Fraud. (Not me...)
You're the PROVEN Liar. (Not me...)
And NOW you must wear the ASSFUCKED BY GOOGLE banner because TRULY IT
IS A FACT that YOU were PUBLICALLY BUTTFUCKED by Google, YOU were
PUBLICALLY URINATED ON by ME, and YOU get to wear THAT STAIN FOREVER!
There are ONE BILLION Internet users who KNOW NOW that YOU WERE
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There are ONE BILLION Internet users who KNOW NOW that YOU WERE
PUBLICALLY URINATED ON by ME!
Ramon F Herrera
Hi ole' Kickin'
Justice Sotomayor is not the only wise Latin person. There's many more
wising up, and growing both in quantitative as qualitative terms.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a walking cadaver, a remnant of
our shameful past.
-Ramon
Tom Sr.
> Fraud reported to Google:
You're the PROVEN FRAUD. (Yes, you, Patriot Games!)
You're the PROVEN LIAR. (Yes, you, Bob Milby Jr.!)
As I have informed you repeatedly, LIAR, this is *not* "Fraud" and
itis *not* an abuse of Google's Terms of Service.
Here is the link once again. I know you have NOT yet read these ToS,
Games.
http://groups.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/terms_of_service3.html
You continue to prove how extremely stupid you are, Bob Milby Jr.,
thinking that somehow people will "believe" your repeatedly PROVEN
LIE.
Especially when you *know* I will come and kick you fucking dumb ass
with proof what a LIAR you are -- AGAIN.
You *never* learn, Games!
-Tom Sr.
Tom Sr.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/us/01alabama.html?em
> August 1, 2009
> Alabama Area Reeling in Face of Fiscal Crisis
> By SHAILA DEWAN
> BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It is hardly unusual these days for a government
> building to forgo a fresh paint job or regular lawn care to cut costs.
> But last week, the director of the Jefferson County public nursing
> home was told that the county could no longer afford to bury indigent
> patients.
> Across town at the juvenile detention center, the man in charge was
> trying to figure out how to feed the 28 children in his custody when
> the entire cafeteria staff is let go. The tax collector warned local
> school districts to expect a six-month delay to get their share of
> property taxes. In family court, administrators plan to delay child
> support, custody and child abuse cases, leaving some children in the
> hands of the state indefinitely.
> In every part of Jefferson County — Alabama’s most populous county and
> its main economic engine — government managers have been scrambling to
> prepare for Saturday, when two-thirds of county employees eligible for
> layoffs — up to 1,400 — will be lost in an effort to stave off
> “The big dogs ate all the bones,” said Mansoor Butt, 55, a store
> owner. “Now we are all out of bones. The chips are gone, and the poker
> game’s gone. You can’t play poker without any chips.”
I feel sorry for the decent government employees there -- and the
suffering this will bring to those most in need in Alabama.
I am, sadly, not at all surprised by the lack of comment on this by
the ultraconservative k00ks -- other than, of course, Games' feeble
attempts to make the issue the poster -- and NOT the *message*.
Hypocrite that he is, Milby Jr. he also posted this morning about the
"Blue State Socialists" in California because of their severe economic
problems.
I guess it is beyond him to understand that Red State Capitalists have
seriously fucked-up.
Oh well, Sid, of course the ultraconservative k00ks will ignore your
Alabama post here -- it counters their concept of "Reality" so it
cannot possible be true.
-Tom Sr.
Patriot Games
<tomswif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Aug 2, 5:00�pm, Patriot Games <Patr...@America.Com> wrote:
>> Fraud reported to Google:
>You're the PROVEN FRAUD. (Yes, you, Patriot Games!)
Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
>You're the PROVEN LIAR. (Yes, you, Bob Milby Jr.!)
Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
Tom Sr.
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:48:19 -0700 (PDT), "Tom Sr." wrote:
> >On Aug 2, 5:00 pm, Patriot Games <Patr...@Amerika.Com> wrote:
> >> Fraud reported to Google:
> >You're the PROVEN FRAUD. (Yes, you, Patriot Games!)
> Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
No, Bob Milby Jr. Because I stated the truth. And COWARDLY LIAR that
you are, you failed to quote my proof in your reply.
> >You're the PROVEN LIAR. (Yes, you, Bob Milby Jr.!)
> --
> Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
No, Games.. Because I stated the truth. And COWARDLY LIAR that you
are, you failed to quote my proof in your reply.
So in addition to your PROVING still yet again you are a LIAR, Games
-- with lying by omission in your reply -- you also proved yourself,
yet again, by removing my proof that you did LIE previously as well.
Ha ha.
Patriot Games = Bob Milby Jr. = LIAR + COWARD
Have a *NICE* day!!!
-Tom Sr.
Patriot Games
<tomswif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Aug 6, 10:06 am, Patriot Games <Patr...@Amerika.Com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:48:19 -0700 (PDT), "Tom Sr." wrote:
>> >On Aug 2, 5:00 pm, Patriot Games <Patr...@Amerika.Com> wrote:
>> >> Fraud reported to Google:
>> >You're the PROVEN FRAUD. (Yes, you, Patriot Games!)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
>> >You're the PROVEN LIAR. (Yes, you, Bob Milby Jr.!)
>> Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
>Because I stated...
BwahahahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
>Have a *NICE* day!!!
I always do, Nappy...
Try not to suck any dicks today.
Tom Sr.
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:19:56 -0700 (PDT), "Tom Sr." wrote:
> >On Aug 6, 10:06 am, Patriot Games <Patr...@Amerika.Com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:48:19 -0700 (PDT), "Tom Sr." wrote:
> >> >On Aug 2, 5:00 pm, Patriot Games <Patr...@Amerika.Com> wrote:
> >> >> Fraud reported to Google:
> >> >You're the PROVEN FRAUD. (Yes, you, Patriot Games!)
> >> Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
> >Because I stated...
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
No, Bob Milby Jr. Because I stated the truth. And COWARDLY LIAR that
you are, for the *third* time you failed to quote my proof in your
reply.
> >> >You're the PROVEN LIAR. (Yes, you, Bob Milby Jr.!)
> >> Because you say so? Hahahahahah!
> >Because I stated...
> -
> BwahahahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
LYING by obmission for a FOURTH TIME now, Bob Milby Jr. What an
immature brat you are.
No, Games.. Because I stated the truth. And COWARDLY LIAR that you
are, you failed to quote my proof in your reply.
You must be extremely fucking dumb to believe that those reading this
subject CANNOT read the previous posts in this threadto to see exactly
what you have omitted. Gods, you are just such a pitifully bad
debater.
But, like you, I;m a nice guy. So I've put back in what I had
previously written, so readers here can see EXACTLY how you have
*LIED*.
So in addition to your PROVING still yet again you are a LIAR, Games
-- with lying by omission in your reply -- you also proved yourself,
yet again, by removing my proof that you did LIE previously as well.
Ha ha.
Patriot Games = Bob Milby Jr. = LIAR + COWARD
-----
On Aug 5, 8:48 am, "Tom Sr." wrote:
>On Aug 2, 5:00 pm, Patriot Games <Patr...@Amerika.Com> wrote:
>> Fraud reported to Google:
You're the PROVEN FRAUD. (Yes, you, Patriot Games!)
You're the PROVEN LIAR. (Yes, you, Bob Milby Jr.!)
As I have informed you repeatedly, LIAR, this is *not* "Fraud" and
itis *not* an abuse of Google's Terms of Service.
Here is the link once again. I know you have NOT yet read these ToS,
Games.
http://groups.google.com/intl/en/googlegroups/terms_of_service3.html
You continue to prove how extremely stupid you are, Bob Milby Jr.,
thinking that somehow people will "believe" your repeatedly PROVEN
LIE.
Especially when you *know* I will come and kick you fucking dumb ass
with proof what a LIAR you are -- AGAIN.
-----
Especially when you KNOW I will come and kick you fucking stupid ass
with proof what a LIAR you are -- YET AGAIN.
YOU NEVER LEARN, JUNIOR.
-Tom Sr.
Patriot Games
<tomswif...@gmail.com> wrote:
Try not to suck any dicks today, Nappy.