But that's what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket - the county government has encouraged endless home-building, signing off on every possible development with dollar signs in their eyes, bringing dozens of new general contractors and hundreds of construction workers into the area ... and then it all fell apart, once the housing bubble burst.
Our county budget went from 55 million in 2001 to 90 million last year, mostly from property taxes and logging receipts (the demand for which rely upon construction, of course). I think it'll be a tad lower next year.
Kurt Montandon
of CA
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Mar 27, 2009 00:08:28 AM
Watchagunnado?
So what do 20 percent of the people do when they are out of work? Go fishin? Grow their own gardens? Shoot rabbits, pigeons and coons? Rob thy neighbors? Watchagunnado? In the cities, it'll probably be more robbing and shooting they neighbors than fishin.
Tony Lee
of CA
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Mar 26, 2009 19:28:59 PM
Was it not just a few years ago
that Tunica, Mississippi, was a haven for gambling casinos?
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Kurt Montandon of CA @ Mar 27, 2009 00:08:28 AM
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