MMMmmm after reading the following story it made me think of some of the casino management that I have dealt with over the years. Seems like even though you're trying to help and offer them a good deal to increase their business and offer a better tournaments for their players, they think they can do it better themselves. Most of the time they have simular results as beow...LOL Subject: Mayor Ray Nagin Does It Again... Brit Hume reported this on Fox News: Most of us know about the legendary New Orleans 'Katrina' Mayor Ray Nagin. He's the one who tried to teach 1,200 buses to swim while his citizen's drowned. Once again, he has demonstrated his superior ability to deal with hard realities. According to the New Orleans Times Picayune, there were 50,000 vehicles ruined in Katrina and abandoned by their owners. The largest auto crusher east of the Rockies, K&L Auto Crushers of Tyler, Texas, offered to pay the City of New Orleans $100.00 per vehicle, 'as is, where is', an estimated $5 million NET to the city. They agreed to bring in 5 to 10 portable crushers, work 6 days per week and complete the job in 15 weeks. Of course, Mayor Nagin knew better how to do the job and refused the offer, saying the city would do the job themselves. It seems that now it will cost the City of New Orleans $23 million to complete the job. The vehicles are still there today, instead of being cleaned out 5 Months ago. Now, lets see if I have this correct. By doing it J&L's way the City of New Orleans would net $5 million. Doing it mayor Nagin's way costs the city $23 million for a net cost to the City of New Orleans of $28,000,000. This is the same mayor that wants the United States taxpayers to give $50 billion to New Orleans and let him rebuild a "Chocolate City" his way without any oversight or any control. Oh, well...... like Einstein said, "The only two things that are infinite are the universe and stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe
It seems that the only Mayor in America that could give Nagin lessons in city management is a couple of hours north of him in our Capitol City. Jackson has been under a "state of emergency" declared by Frank Melton for weeks.
Alderman As I was reading the last post, our local news said that the aldermen in our area raised their salary to $98,000 per year. Damn, that's $98,000 for doing nothing. That's it, I'm running for office. Future posts will be on a "as time permits". That means I'll have plenty of time to post. :joker:
aldermen: Tool: As I understood it, they were already at 98,000K. They comprimised on the raise and only went for between 2 per cent and 3 per cent for the next five years. The Mayor makes 218K and no word on his pay raise. Now, no word yet on Wal-Mart kick backs. Or a new hired truck program.
