Talk about growth of government in a shrinking population: Over the last 10 years, while Democrats increasingly took over the Anchorage Assembly, the Assembly has increased its own operating budget by more than 234%. Its budget went from $1.3 million in 2015 to $4.4 million for last year. The number of its full time staff increased nearly 60% (from 12 to 19).
By contrast, over the same period of time the Mayor’s Office budget has increased 8%, but with the same number of positions.
How much of that increase ends up in the assembly members and their cronies’ pockets?
Well at least we are getting a great bang for our buck, NOT!
The Big question is have we seen any measurable improvement for the spending that has exceeded inflation.
Less homeless?
Lower crime?
Safer communities?
Improved educational test scores.
Are the roads plowed better?
Is there more landscaping in our green spaces?
Less urine and human excrement on our downtown streets?
Less trash, garbage piles, graffiti in our public spaces?
More affordable housing?
Dynamic increase in job creating entrepreneurlism due to lower taxes and regulations?
Everyone knows the answer – regardless of one’s political affiliation.
The local politicians have achieved a level of failure unfathomable 20 years ago.
It’s really sad to watch Anchorage’s slow but steady decline.
Shame and a pox upon your houses you failing politicos…
In about six months or more the federal DOGE team will have nearly completed a Master Class in federal spending cuts. If I were a member of the Anchorage Asssmbly I would take notice as the American public will want across the board cuts in every facet of state, city and public office reductions!
And yet you keep voting them in, Anchorage.
You must want this.
Anchorage deserves what they get, the Anchoroids voted for these far left wacko Assembly Loons, nobody to blame except themselves 😂
You don’t know what votes counts were, you know only what you’re told vote counts were.
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Vote count’s reported by municipal employees who work for Assemby members running for re-election,
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…who operate electronic vote-counting gear running on proprietary software, into which thumb drives of unknown provenance can be stuck any time,
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…who can toss your ballot for any reason they wish and may or may not tell you about it, unbeknownst to you,
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…who know voter-registration records are inaccurate, but won’t correct them.
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…and that’s before we get to the mail-in, the chain of custody part..
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Sure and it’s an awful thing to contemplate, the very foundation of our republic undermined, but there it is and not going away until people like us stop tossing blame and emojis about and decideto do what’s necessary to have no more of the corruption.
They probably haven’t discovered the computer. How many people are they using to screw in a light bulb?