News and Record's Doug Clark and Allen Johnson
whose messaging is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway
http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/n_and_r_editorials/our-opinion-their-cash-their-call/article_2bf546d8-e520-533d-8bbf-e84351ec1c28.html
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Right before a City of Greensboro Council Election; "Participatory budgeting steering committee ready to meet" = Buying Votes = Crooked Politicians, the media and City executives supporting them.
http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/09/right-before-city-of-greensboro-council.html
Their cash, their call
News and Record's Doug Clark and Allen Johnson
whose messaging is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway
What does "Their cash, their call" mean?
Isn't it everyone's cash, a few people's call?.
Are you familiar with the condition of Greensboro's roads?
Feel like saying why resurfacing isn't being prioritized?
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Why are other city's trying to eliminate the program?;
"Vallejo, California, residents were initially psyched to spend tax dollars on their pet projects. But things haven't turned out as they had hoped...
Participatory budgeting...barely passed in city council when it went up for a vote in April 2012, with Brown and her contingent winning 4-3. Some residents were furious, calling the idea that it would improve democracy “utter nonsense” in letters to the local newspaper, the Vallejo Times Herald. Even the mayor disliked the idea, telling reporters “this is not the time to fund whatever we want.
...these days, Vallejoans are fighting again. Some want to dispense with participatory budgeting entirely.
In its second year, the city allotted the participatory budgeting program $2 million, down from $3 million the first year. Next year, the program will be given $1 million to spend. If it still exists at all.
Some residents and city staff want it to go away entirely.
The program costs about $300,000 to administer...
That includes staff that have been hired to run the program, and other expenses incurred by holding multiple citywide meetings: free food, babysitters, and translators.
...Yen wants to put an item on the next participatory budgeting ballot that would give residents the option to do away with the process entirely.
...Some residents are frustrated that Vallejo is getting accolades for being the first U.S. city to implement PB citywide, while at the same time actually winding it down."
The Atlantic
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In the comments; "The facts about participatory budgeting"
http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/09/in-comments-facts-about-participatory.html
