Guilford budget can’t afford pork spending
“If it takes some funding for important community groups to satisfy some commissioners, then I’m willing to take that” — Commissioner Steve Arnold, News & Record, May 9.
Well, I’m not willing, as a Guilford County taxpayer, to take that. In these times we need prudent, even Spartan budgeting, not special-interest projects to insure re-election and budget approval. It’s “pork” like this that runs the cost of government to excessive levels.
Approving “pork” like this is no better than “buying” a commissioner’s vote for budget approval. Let a commissioner vote against the budget and explain why!
Michael Lopez
Summerfield
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