Comal County: New Debt Bomb Coming Your Way May 8

By Douglas Kirk

We have the exact same thing going on at the local level as we do in Washington.

You don’t like Obamacare? Then why should you like a new Comal County Courthouse for $75,000,000?

We don’t need it and we can’t afford it. But we ARE going to get it.

Why? That’s because your elected officials don’t work for you. They work for themselves and they take care of their buddies at YOUR expense.

How is it any different in Washington?

You might as well not even bother to vote May 8 on this massive new bond issue. When the votes are counted, the people spending your money will prevail. They ALWAYS do.

Why should this be any different?

We are deep in a recession, on the verge of diving into a second, deeper dip.

So what does your local government do? Instead of working to create jobs, they are smoking big cigars in a back room somewhere laughing their collective asses off at how STUPID the electorate is and how FUN it is going to be to SPEND all that FREE CASH.

Funny, they were even going to do this without a vote. They tried to sneak the deal past the public with certificates of obligation. However, they got CAUGHT, and the taxpayers rose up and 6,500 people signed a petition FORCING the County Judge to call an election.

Remember how he BELLY-ACHED about that? Remember how he was soliciting affidavits from people who he said were FOOLED into signing the petition?

Out of SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED people he was able to find just three--get that--three (3), who he was able to CONVINCE to change their mind about signing that petition.

But then of course, EVERYBODY KNOWS that taxpayers won’t get out to vote to STOP this ridiculous hardened bunker, er, courthouse, from being built.

Gosh, we already have a courthouse that isn’t used to full capacity. We already have a whole bunch of buildings in downtown New Braunfels that the County owns--buildings that were either built or purchased (The Hummel Museum) and so one wonders, why do they WANT another one?

Well, the answer to that is SIMPLE. A growing bureaucracy driven by greed and expansionism just likes to gobble up new territory.

The county budget is up 150 percent in just ten years. The per capita spending is far outgrowing the actual growth in population.

Of course we NEED another courthouse. We NEED it to house all the NEW government people on the payroll as the government expands like a pregnant jackass. (Jackass is an acceptable word, by the way, referring to a male donkey. A jackass, of course, can’t be pregnant, as it is, by definition a male. So, when someone says something is expanding like a pregnant jackass he is using the expression to represent complete amazement. And while we are on the subject, a female donkey is called a jenny. So, I could have said the government is expanding like a pregnant jenny, but then, hardly anyone would have known what I meant. However, if you have ever seen a pregnant donkey, you know that it is a sight to see--the bloat is enough to make you run for cover.)

So, that being said, the government WANTS a new courthouse so that they will have a whole new structure over which to lord.

They claim it is for security but they don’t use the metal detectors we bought them for the existing courthouse.

They claim they will save money--eight million dollars--by spending this money now, not addressing the issue that we should NOT be spending it AT ALL.

They already did a good old boy deal by buying the property for twice the appraised value. Huh? Do you have to work for the GOVERNMENT to be that DUMB?

And why aren’t we building a new facility (which we DON’T need) at the COUNTY JAIL, next to where they keep the prisoners so you don’t have to haul the prisoners into the downtown tourist section of New Braunfels? Just walk them through a secure tunnel from the jail to the new courthouse on the adjacent property? DUH.

No, we are surrounded by people whose real goals are a good old boy AGENDA that involves removing money from YOUR WALLET for THEIR ENTERTAINMENT.

So stay home on May 8. Don’t Vote. You will get the NEW TAX BILL a little later and for the next THIRTY years.

Douglas Kirk