State Funds Cut and Liberal Lament

The recent East Greenwich Township newsletter reads something like a rant against state aid cuts and repeatedly laments the state of the economy and our local finances.  We are led to believe that the 20% increase in health insurance, $47,504 increase in pension payments, $31,000 increase in trash collection cost just appeared overnight and that these costs are mandatory and must be adhered to without accepting responsibility for the cost increases in the first place.  The letter hints at the real roots of the problems that face us when it is stated that we have had an increase in our budget and size of our community “65% over the last 10 years” and that state aid accounts for “most of the revenue in our budget”. 

So in reality for the past ten years our representatives have been “growing our community” at an unprecedented pace all the while being totally dependent on the Nanny State to supplement our “growth”.