This just has me peeved
Sometimes, living in the Madison area is like living on the dark side of the moon. You begin to wonder if the people have any sense whatsoever, or if they are merely stumbling around in the dark.
For example, the Madison City Council has such a lack of real business to do, that they are considering a referendum on the Iraq war.
As Dad would say, "These idiots couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the heel!"
Tell me why, WHY, is this city business? Does everybody want to be Cindy Sheehan, or what? Is everybody desperate to make their play for Howard Dean's job? What in heaven's sake does this have to do with the city, huh?
First of all, if the council were to have passed it outright, nobody would have been shocked or cared in the least. We would have expected it from these wingnuts. But no! Instead, they decide to let it go to referendum so that "the people" can decide.
Of course, there is the small matter of the $16,200 that this will cost the city to put the issue on the ballot. A sum, I might point out, that is not budgeted and will have to come out of the "contingent reserve." So, in addition to wasting taxpayer money on an issue that the City has absolutely no power to change, we are also wasting time and energy talking about it. This, at a time when Iraqis are going to the polls to elect their first democratically-elected, non-provisional government EVER. This, I might further add, when Iraqis are telling people who don't appreciate the US and George Bush's efforts in Iraq "to go to hell."
Who is going to take the city council to task if these contingent reserve funds are needed for salt, snow removal, or some other real issue and aren't there for the taking? It is no damn wonder property taxes keep going up. The city council is throwing taxpayer money around like a sailor in a whorehouse. (Except, in my head they are the whores.)
