Sandy Springs is a city of about 100,000 people north of Atlanta. It was incorporated in December of 2005, and decided to embrace a model of contracting out all city services other than police and fire.
And it spends half what an ordinary city of 100,000 spends, with city services that beat the rest of the area easily.
This post was written by MacAoidh on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 13:54. MacAoidh has written 8069 posts on this blog.
“What happened here was the accumulated karmic backlash of forty years’ worth of Establishment Democrats telling the Activist Left that they were the vanguard of, and spokesmen for, a broad American populist movement. For the longest time, such lies were simply an accepted part of the public policy debate; mostly because the country had no yardstick by which to judge the Left’s turnout and activities.
“But then came the Tea Parties — which showed people what a real American populist movement looks like, and what it can do — and its success stung the Activist Left at the exact moment that Scott Walker came along and not unreasonably decided that if he was elected on a platform of doing certain things, he had best start doing them. This infuriated the Left, but not as much as the refusal of Walker and the WI GOP to go weak-kneed at the first sign of push-back. So… the recall movement was born!
“And… fizzled. The Left should have cut their losses when Prosser demonstrated that drum circles and illegal indoor camping in the Rotunda didn’t translate into votes… and they definitely should have cut their losses when the first wave of recalls didn’t live up to the hype. But they didn’t, and now the people of Wisconsin are increasingly demonstrating that they’re tired of all of this – and they’re not blaming the Republicans, either. Such a shame, but that’s what you get whe- hey! The bacon’s fully cooked.”
- Moe Lane
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Did you send a link to Kip?!
Why send Kip a link? Have his driver bring him out to Central and talk to Mayor Watts or anyone who lives in Central and they’ll tell ya that out-sourcing is great. Central used the same company that Sandy Springs is using and it was a world of difference when you had something you needed done. You didn’t have to deal with Parish/City workers, who don’t want to be at work anyways, and they were quick responders.