{"id":369,"date":"2010-07-29T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=369"},"modified":"2010-07-29T01:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:14:00","slug":"government-solutions-to-budgetary-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Government solutions to budgetary crisis??"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Fort Smith City Government.                                                     July 28, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

The Undocumented Sanctuary City & Budgetary Concerns\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I think, or maybe comedy. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the matter of non-profits, better known as 501 c3\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comes remarks from Tracy Winchell, Economic coordinator for Fort Smith, who stated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing away entirely with the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial contributions to the non-profits would be catastrophic.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Please Tracy, no broad brushes. In your tear-jerking pleas, tell us how withholding taxpayer money from non-profits could be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153catastrophic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  The fact is, if non-profits can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it on their own they should die, and subsidizing non-profits is not a proper function of government. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that Mayor Baker and Director Hutchings want to protect non-profits, why?  Could it be that both have a long history of receiving their economic largesse from the producers, just as is the case with non-profits?<\/span><\/p>\n

Director Maddox recommended the Board eliminate the $400 per month car allowance the 7 Directors receive.  $400 per month translates into 150 gal. of gas and conservatively 3000 miles per month, and throw in an oil change and some car washes. Sure is a whole lot of travellin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 going on. <\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing on with Director Maddox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s question, he asked Deputy Administrator Ray Gosack for examples of city services that could be cut. Now comes the laugher.  Gosack said the city could use grass seed instead of grass sod to replace vegetation.  Also stop picking up euthanized animals.  Now citizens, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I call aggressive dealing with an economic crisis.  As usual Director Maddox is the city director who tries to deal with reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been said that the Mayor receives a $250,000 per yr stipend to run the Mayor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office.  Folks, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s $20,000 a month and if the 250K is correct, euphemistically I would say this is a tragic case of redistribution.  Bloat-tation, you say?<\/span><\/p>\n

The question has never been answered, how much do the Mexican illegals cost the undocumented sanctuary city of Fort Smith yearly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6or do you even know or care?<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindest regards,<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe McCutchen<\/span><\/p>\n

Cc: citizens<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fort Smith City Government.                                                     July 28, 2010 The Undocumented Sanctuary City & Budgetary Concerns\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I think, or maybe comedy. In the matter of non-profits, better known as 501 c3\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comes remarks from Tracy Winchell, Economic coordinator for Fort Smith, who stated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing away entirely with the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial contributions to the non-profits would be catastrophic.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Please … Continue reading Government solutions to budgetary crisis??<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government-offenses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}