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B.K. wrote:

> - When pray tell is a government job not behind or over budget?

It *does* happen, believe it or not!  The project to rebuild I-5 after
the big earthquake in Los Angeles a few years ago comes immediately to
mind -- under budget and way opened way ahead of schedule.  It's just
the scandalous stuff that makes the news.

> At town
> meeting in Maine one year they said they had a deficit and what should
> they do. Then came the responce from one "Well I think we should just
> SPEND it!"

Here in Champaign, the city had a surplus of something like $5 million
last year.  The city decided to use the money to repair many of the
roads in town this summer (detours, barricades, and construction
equipment *everywhere* this year) which *badly* needed the work.

They also talked about eliminating city property taxes on residential
property; I don't know if that proposal actually went anywhere though
the city council was seriously considering it.   I didn't pay a whole
lot of attention since I don't live in Champaign.

Richard Masoner