I just renewed my web host for another year. Each year my payment is due by Jan 13, which also happens to be the date my mother died two years ago. This is the start of BurlingtonPol.com's 5th year.
Sorry to all for my lack of blogging lately- Wards 4/7 NPA, Owen- anyone else who has written to me lately looking for me to post this or that- I'll be back at it soon.
Thanks for your patience and thanks for reading BurlingtonPol.com. Visit often!
You better be sorry. Slacker.
ReplyDeleteHi Haik,
ReplyDeleteGet back on that Burlington Telecom chestnut, I'm concerned that people will come to accept the mission creep of having the taxpayers of Burlington being the ultimate guarantor of the new loans. The basic fact is that the Burlington taxpayer never would have authorized BT had they known what it's become. Did you see Shay Totten casually describe how it's okay for BT to be subsidized? Sure if the federal funds are there but Burlington can't print the money to cover it in the meantime.
-Mickey
Mickey (the current police chief's name back when he was growing up) - you are absolutely right. Using some numbers from a previous thread means that Bobby Kiss wants to effectively borrow approximately $3000 per Burlington household to play wannabe venture capitalist. All you BT subscribers (and non-subscribers!) ok with that?
ReplyDeleteThe $3000 comes from $60,000,000 of debt less $12,000,000 of value divided by 15,885 households.
The money, as you point out, is coming from the taxpayer in Burlington, not across the country via Uncle Sam.
Chip Douglas