Yesterday the Mayor was on the B-N-B show crying about kids swimming for free and riding the city bus. Today on the show, Bad Neighbor Belfrage decided to take calls on it.
I’ve known for a long time the mayor is a gigantic hypocrite, especially when it comes to his faux Christian beliefs and fake crying and emotions.
Now with one foot out the door, he wants to cut subsidies, mostly to little things most of us don’t even think about, but apparently he loses sleep over.
Where were these cuts seven years ago when you rolled into office? You had a prime opportunity to stop the government waste, reduce or even eliminate the debt Munson created, rebuild the infrastructure from the ground up (this means the back streets in some of the middle income areas) and get ahead of the drug and crime wave. You did not. You pulled out the city’s credit card statement, saw you had a credit line from here to Jupiter and started spending like a stripper addicted to meth.
While the mayor seems concerned about programs that cost a couple grand a piece he doesn’t seem very concerned about all the corporate welfare in the city that hasn’t done the one thing we were promised it would; bring in living wage, high quality jobs. In fact the millions we have thrown at ‘job creation’ in Sioux Falls has been a total failure, except for Sanford bringing in a handful of east coast doctors that build pastel yellow mansions in McKennan Park (which are costing taxpayers in the courtroom to with a possible lawsuit against the city’s building services department).
I agree with him, it is not government’s job to teach kids how to sing in our parks, but his concern wreaks of hypocrisy when you think about;
$500K to a tennis center that provides little to no public access, not even to the parking lot
Millions to the Development Foundation for Want Ad Welfare to corporations
Tens of Millions to the Development Foundation for infrastructure to Flopdation Park for about 12 fork lift driver positions
A proposed $18 million dollar parking ramp to a private developer connected to a construction company whose horrible safety record caused the death of a worker.
AÂ $25 million dollar administration building (to fix a $100K lease problem-that wasn’t a problem) that a majority of the council opposed and 6,500 petition signing citizens.
I could continue on about the probably over $100 million the mayor has WASTED subsidizing corporations and developers over the past seven years, but don’t we have more important things to worry about, like those darn poor kids cheating the system by getting to swim for free.
Give me a break!
Well said. Huether had no problems taking $500k for himself or working behind the scenes to insure his rich friends got TIFs, but there’s no money for poor people who couldn’t afford a bus or swim pass?
Hypocrite is the nicest thing you could say about him.
Wow MK! You see what’s been obvious for some of us for 8 years. This is a sad cruel narcissist. I commend this site for speaking out. With comments, this platform and social media is replacing news and press. It sounds modern Internet but it’s really a return of the Victorian village cryer. What’s important is truth. TV and newspaper is advertiser and subsidizer speech not worth belief. Even Limbaugh like Belfrage is sounding people powered.
Power to the people. Can we take back our neighborhoods and tax the rich to somewhere offshore. Our quality of life is our diversity and compassion. I bet Huether comes out against transgender like bigot chauvinist Trump. It’s not about leadership and confidence. They are barkers that push you into the fake freak show at the carnival while also selling you snake oil outside.
Total agreement.
I am pretty sure you are no longer on Mad Mike’s Christmas card list. It is not nice to disagree with the free spending mayor. He gets mad and then gets even.
Everyone who has lived in Sioux Falls for any length of time knows what a hot button issue pools are in our town.
I highly doubt Mike or the Council will suggest eliminating subsidized swimming for low income individuals/families.