If the Whitney Houston flag-lowering controversy got your dander up, Save Jerseyans, then this latest wrinkle of the story will really raise your blood pressure to unhealthy levels!
Generally speaking, it should come as no surprise that spending in Houston’s native Newark, New Jersey continues to rage wildly out of control.
It’s a top-down problem: the Brick City’s council and their staff members spent $45,000 on Blackberry charges last year! Thanks to Trenton social engineering, taxpayers shell out well over $20,000 annually for each Newark pupil from a $970 million budget of which $775 million, or roughly 80%, is pure state aid (only 11% is derived from local tax levies).
The worst investment Mark Zuckerberg ever made? Probably.
And the latest fiscal atrocity? Whitney Houston’s private funeral reportedly cost taxpayers an estimated $187,000 in overtime.
Just two years after the city laid off 163 officers. Two months after the Mayor proposed massive tax increase.
By way of comparison, the city of Glendale, California didn’t pay a dime for extra protection at Michael Jackson’s 2009 public funeral; according to the LA Times, the late pop star’s estate picked up the tab.
Now you’re welcome to argue that Houston’s taxpayer-financed Brick City “bodyguards” represent a drop in the bucket; the Newark P.D’.s total overtime budget was $4 million last year (a figure which doesn’t include approximately $2.2 million more for city crossing guards).
My question: couldn’t Kevin Costner have handled security himself for THAT much green? It shouldn’t have been state taxpayers’ responsibility.
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is 187 grand really that much, matt? com'on… it's a "cultural icon" of nj!
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