Sunday, August 10, 2008
East Hampton Broke
The skinnies are hitting big and small alike, as America wakes up from 8 years of GOP economics. I'm broke. My bank account is zero. My credit worse than Zimbabwe, but I'm not alone.
East Hampton, NY's posh resort, has opened its books to the public and found itself
12 million in the red. NewsDay has blamed the deficit not on free garbage pick-up for the rich, but on the 'gracious' benefits to its poorer citizens such as $100,000 for day-care or $5 per full time resident versus $100,000 spent on beach rakes.
"When the summer's over, it's just the same old town just like all these other towns." The town manager said to a hostile press, but this plaint can be heard in hundreds of holiday destination throughout this broke nation.
We ain't rich no more.
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