In short order, the municipal budget is surely going to be a hot topic heading into the end of the year for a few reasons. One, the cost of everything has gone up. Think oil, think asphalt, think energy and you get a good picture of what DPW and building operations are facing. Then there’s the $145 million of BOE money. Corda still hasn’t figured out he needs a CFO type on his staff and he needs it yesterday, so once again we’ll get the arithmetically challenged presenting budgets not based on any reality and a lame attempt at a PR campaign. The bonus this year is a new council, already off to a fractious start because, well, recurring theme here, some people can’t count.
Today in the Advocate State Senator Bob Duff is extolling a ban on incandescent bulbs. Well that deservers a whole WTF post, but the day job is unusually busy, so I’ll leave that for another longer post on the follies of going “green” by spending money on supposedly greener technology. Brazil, according to the the NYT is suggesting it has found the biggest oil field outside of the middle east. Good thing there’s isn’t an entire political party totally bent on pissing off the latino world right now.
Check out this handy chart from the Financial Times which explains it visually.
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