Spike

Just a question for our City management and the City Council. There was an article in this weeks Des Moines Register about the State union workers. They were told at their last contract that they could not have pay raises and free health insurance. Not both. The State could not afford it. They chose the free health insurance.

Why did our City council and City manager agree to 5 years of FREE health insurance and nice pay raises? For the next 5 years?

Our Burlington City management should never have done this. We can't afford it. It will increase taxes or cut services to our citizens.

Then they have the guts to blame the State for all of their troubles. Do they think this is fair to burden the citizens of Burlington so they can have more money and benefits? Government is too big and too expensive. It is killing the economy.

The public pension system will either break everybody trying to keep up or it will go broke at the rate it is headed. There will be massive layoffs in the future because the union contracts are too costly. Our community is not better for it. There are citizens sacrificing and suffering right now. It sure is not local government employees.

Thank you for this forum. There are a lot of citizens reading it and discussing the issues.

Disappointed in our Officials

If you think this is bad wait just until Heland uncovers his next 4-year spendaholic crime spree campaign promise to city employees to get their vote.

Spike