Dallas Stares Down a Texas-Size Threat of Bankruptcy

[apdst]

A link to fracking ordinances?

Are you in the thread that you think you're in?

Yeah! Look at the revenue the city passed on. And we're supposed to sympathize with their economic woes?

 

[justabubba]

I was in Houston three weeks ago. Stand still gridlock on the highways is your greatest feature. That and your football team sucks.

what, no mention of the summer heat and humidity

 

[Fenton]

what, no mention of the summer heat and humidity

Lol.....Yep, its a sub tropical climate and gets a little rough in the summer, but its beautiful weather this time of year.

No snow, no ice no shoveling your driveway either

 

[reinoe]

With the luck of the irish, so to say, California may in the short term, dodge the bullet, as the economy expands as it appears ready to.

However, long term, California is doomed to economic collapse. I just hope citizens in other states make it clear they will not allow the Feds to direct money to bail it out. The liberal/socialist progressives running the state need to reap what they have sewn.

They're pissing away so much on illegal immigrants anyway.

 

[Casper]

Its gridlocked because everyone and their brother has moved to Houston over the last 8 years

Its the one drawback tp having a economy and jobs. As far as our Football team ? Who cares ? Would rather live in a City thats 0 and 16 than Dallas.

And that is why we want you to stay down there. Psst, the job market here is every bit as good as it is in Houston. How bout those Cowboys!

 

[d0gbreath]

Its gridlocked because everyone and their brother has moved to Houston over the last 8 years

Its the one drawback tp having a economy and jobs. As far as our Football team ? Who cares ? Would rather live in a City thats 0 and 16 than Dallas.

There are so many corporations moving to the Dallas area in the coming years that it boggles the mind. Property taxes are quite painful ever since my shotgun shack rolled over the half-mil mark.

 

[d0gbreath]

Yeah! Look at the revenue the city passed on. And we're supposed to sympathize with their economic woes?

They like keeping their citizens healthy and alive. I'm on their side.

 

[d0gbreath]

what, no mention of the summer heat and humidity

meh, it's fall. But that should never have been omitted. I lived in Houston for two weeks in July. I thought I was going to die!

 

[Fenton]

And that is why we want you to stay down there. Psst, the job market here is every bit as good as it is in Houston. How bout those Cowboys!

Lol....Good, maybe some of these transplants will head North

I doubt they'll stick around. Dallas is a landlocked tornado prone and polluted version of Houston

 

[apdst]

They like keeping their citizens healthy and alive. I'm on their side.

You might have a point, if not for the fact that fracking doesn't cause people to get sick and die.

 

[Turin]

Let's come back to today.

The pensions and salaries are going up. After the senseless massacre of 5 Dallas Policemen, many Dallas Police are leaving and going to Ft. Worth, Mid-cities, Arlington, etc. because the pay is higher and the danger is less.

PS, we have a GOP Governor now.

I lived there for awhile. Not for me.

 

[d0gbreath]

You might have a point, if not for the fact that fracking doesn't cause people to get sick and die.

People in Denton were getting very sick when fracking was being done close to their homes. So we brought it to the ballot, voted it down, even with the confusing language twists used on the ballot to make you vote the wrong way, and said get lost.

Then Gestapo Abbott and the Legislature overturned our voices. **** those clowns!

 

[d0gbreath]

I lived there for awhile. Not for me.

I just live here for the jobs. When I retire, I'll be long gone. I can hardly stand to look at the blight of a city on a completely view-less landscape any longer. It's Ugly as Hell.

 

[Casper]

Lol....Good, maybe some of these transplants will head North

I doubt they'll stick around. Dallas is a landlocked tornado prone and polluted version of Houston

Sorry to disappoint, I do not qualify as a transplant. Houston is hurricane prone (with tornados), polluted, and less cultural version of Dallas.

 

[apdst]

People in Denton were getting very sick when fracking was being done close to their homes. So we brought it to the ballot, voted it down, even with the confusing language twists used on the ballot to make you vote the wrong way, and said get lost.

Then Gestapo Abbott and the Legislature overturned our voices. **** those clowns!

Why don't the people actually doing the frack job get sick? Is this another lie that was used to decieve people?

 

[d0gbreath]

Why don't the people actually doing the frack job get sick? Is this another lie that was used to decieve people?

They do. They just aren't allowed to talk about it.

 

[justabubba]

if dallas is the 'big D', does that make houston the 'big HO'

 

[Fenton]

Sorry to disappoint, I do not qualify as a transplant. Houston is hurricane prone (with tornados), polluted, and less cultural version of Dallas.

You may not be a transplant, but the hundreds of thousands of people that have moved into this area from States like California and LA and Michigan in the last 5 years sure are. Ive lived here my whole life, and have been to Dallas several times in the last few years. I also used to travel to Dallas in the 80s and 90s.

Dallas has gone down hill big time since the 80s and 90s, and tornadoes ?? You know what Dallas has that Houston doesn't ?? Air raid sirens and Pollution warnings.

 

[Casper]

You may not be a transplant, but the hundreds of thousands of people that have moved into this area from States like California and LA and Michigan in the last 5 years sure are. Ive lived here my whole life, and have been to Dallas several times in the last few years. I also used to travel to Dallas in the 80s and 90s.

Dallas has gone down hill big time since the 80s and 90s, and tornadoes ?? You know what Dallas has that Houston doesn't ?? Air raid sirens and Pollution warnings.

They did not just move to DFW, they moved to Houston, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso. I have discovered that if a transplant lives here for more than 5 years they never leave, most people come to realize it is a darn good place to live, especially since we have no State income tax.

Dallas has not gone down since the 80s or 90s and in fact has grown with many high tech companies moving their headquarters here and new neighborhoods being developed. no housing bust here, try and sell or buy one, it will be gone quickly. So Houston does not get tornados? Really, you might want to check with your local weather channel and by the way one of the by products of hurricanes are Tornados, you get both we only get the occasional tornado. Ozone warnings not really pollution and Houston has its own issues, good grief no one in their right mind gets in the water there.

 

[apdst]

They do. They just aren't allowed to talk about it.

I've been on dozens of grack jobs and I never got sick. I never saw anyone else get sick, either.

 

[d0gbreath]

I've been on dozens of grack jobs and I never got sick. I never saw anyone else get sick, either.

I would get sick. Then I would accidentally, puke on your boots,... ...Sir!

 

[apdst]

I would get sick. Then I would accidentally, puke on your boots,... ...Sir!

You wouldn't last long enough to get sick.

 

[d0gbreath]

You wouldn't last long enough to get sick.

Yo! Bubba shrimp! Aren't you my good friend from LA (not the city)? Muddin', Bugs, corn o'cob and potatoes! "I wonder where the Louisiana Sherrif went to?" Jerry Reed.

Well, the Mrs. is from far East Texas, so a lot of the fam tied into the folks in the Parish.

OK, back to business. I could have wildcatted when I was young. I was on an apartment construction crew framing all of the walls. I know hot and I know hard work. I'm 61 now, so no, I'm ready to die.

 

[Tanngrisnir]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/business/dealbook/dallas-pension-debt-threat-of-bankruptcy.html

I'd like to point out the Governor at that time was Democrat Ann Richards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Texas

And at the time the House and Senate were Dem controlled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy-third_Texas_Legislature



I will give the NYTimes credit, they pointed out this started in '93. I hope people make that connection and start rejecting promises that are just too good to be true.

I leave you with the words, an understatement as big as Texas, by one of the fools that voted for this mess:

And how many cops and firefighters who gladly took those juicy benefits were republicans?

 

[Renae]

And how many cops and firefighters who gladly took those juicy benefits were republicans?

When did you stop beating your significant other?