Seems like just yesterday I was contributing to Harriet Hageman. Money well spent.
What’s that now, like 8 of the 10 worms who voted to impeach Trump are now history? Beautiful.
Miss Piggy is the latest…
Not even scumbag Daddy could save her…
Gee Bruce, if Trump is so wildly unpopular, how do his picks keep winning? I’m confused. You KNOW you are on the wrong side if Bruce Haywood is on your side. LOL.
Fat moron hypocrite in Texas admires you. Congratulations.
Comrade Clayton must by jizzing in his underoos. His Nambla buddy is coming to town!! They’ll both be sweating and grinding on Thursday!
Francis is VERY protective of Comrade Clayton as he transitions from effeminate male to masculine, fupa-having female – as seen in the above photos.
There is a lovely argument on LCBN about whether to go protest this imbecile on Thursday or not. One of my favorite lines from the lefties and Marxists is “you should hear what he has to say! He’s got a lot of good ideas!”
No he doesn’t. It’s the same old shit. I’m 52 years old and I know for a FACT that Marxist ideas do not work. That’s because I know my history and I know human nature. I know lefties are morons and that’s the end of it.
Just ask the Germans. They started down that path a while back. Here is the result:
Electricity prices up FIVE FOLD in 9 months.
For those of you who are math challenged (like Haywood, Tucker, Landrum and the rest) that 500 euros per megawatt/hour wholesale price translates into about 55 cents per kilowatt hour for German consumers.
France is even worse at 70 cents per Mwh!!
Right now around here, we pay roughly 11 cents per kilowatt hour.
I have seen a LOT of bitching about$400 and $500 power bills on Facebook. Now imagine your bill was $2000 or $2500 or $3,000 for a single month. Because THAT is what Germany is facing. They are literally turning to chopping down trees so they can stay warm this winter, because moron greenies have shut down the nukes and fossil fuel power plants. They are taking cold showers because they can’t afford to heat their water.
This is not a joke. This is actually happening. It will happen here too, in about 5 years if we stay on the Beta Male Green New Deal stupidity.
Oddly we have a lot of moron liberal Germans around here who just LOVE Beto.
Fuck Beto and fuck the Green New Deal. We need Beto like we need a bag on our hips.
Pardon me while I wipe this egg off my face and eat some humble pie.
After seeing sales taxes plunge about 8% last month, I wondered out loud if the top was in. If the never-ending money train was about to come to a screeching halt. The U.S. is officially in recession, after all.
So I guess the REAL question is how the hell sales tax numbers for JUNE actually DROPPED 8%?? That is a huge move and clearly a big outlier now. I need to go back and see the actual numbers from last year. Was last June a huge outlier to the upside or was this June way down for some reason?
Although I am eating crow right now, I stand by my assertion that Spring Ho had nothing to do with the most recent sales tax increase – because we also had Spring Ho last year, and I highly doubt that approximately $330,000 more (8% of $330k = the $26,000 increase between last July and this July) dollars were spent this Spring Ho versus last year. It is purely due to inflation – especially in the gasoline area – which is UP 20% over last July.
Only thing to do now is try and find details on the 8% drop in June 2022 and see what caused it. I have no clue what it could be.
**UPDATE#2 – 9/9/22 **
Looking at last June’s $252,670, it looks high compared to the months around it. Why was June about $20k high last year? Hell if I know. All seasonal effects should be accounted for as these are always YoY comparisons. Maybe everyone bought a shit ton of repair hardware after the Freeze of the Century last year? Simultaneously, this June’s numbers look kinda low by about $10,000 compared to surrounding months. Economic slowdown?
So it looks like a bit of both: slightly higher than normal last year and slightly lower this year. But July of THIS year rebounded strong in a MoM comparison while July of 2021 saw a big DROP MoM compared to June 2021.
So what I did was combine months into two-month blocks to smooth things out a bit to see if there are any clues as to where receipts may be heading. Here are the results:
May/June 2021 versus May/June 2022 – the increase is only 1.3% YoY ($465k versus $471k)
June/July 2021 versus June/July 2022 – the increase is only 1.5% YoY ($490k versus $497k)
July/Aug 2021 versus July/Aug 2022 – the increase is 11.5% (461k versus $513k) – receipts have picked back up. Increase for Texas as a whole was 13% YoY for August.
Contrast that to earlier in the year:
I compared March/April 2021 with March/April 2022 and the increase was significant: $403,000 versus $444,000 or a TEN PERCENT increase YoY – which is more in line with “official” inflation.
Then I moved to the April/May combined month comparisons. We see it slow a bit to 8% YoY ($459k versus $496k).
So as we move down the calendar from March/April and compare two-month blocks of receipts, we see: up 10%, up 8%, up 1.3%, up 1.5% and up 11.5%
Slowdown has disappeared – back to double digit increases.
Catchy tune and a reminder of Hillary’s actions that went unpunished….
“From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received…..
Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information…..”
It’s funny to watch the lib-monkeys get worked into a lather over more Trump frame jobs and hoaxes. They were literally lied to for four years about that ridiculous “Russia collusion” fabrication, then they believed the vaccines worked, then they believed that Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” lol, and here they are RIGHT BACK believing more bullshit. It is comical. If Covid taught me anything, it’s that about 30% of the population are hopelessly retarded boot-licking clowns.
They hoot and holler and jump around shitting in their own hands and flinging it at each other:
Trump is going to jail! Trump sold nuclear secrets to Putin! Trump is going to be executed under the espionage act!
Yeah, because Trump needs the money so badly. This is the same guy who didn’t take a paycheck as president. A guy who had money BEFORE he held office – as opposed to scum like the Clintons or Bidens who were dirt-broke rubes and garden-variety morons before they somehow fell ass backwards into hundreds of millions through shady deals like Uranium One and $500,000 “speeches” to the Russians and “ten percent to the Big Guy”.
Tell you what, Bruce. Since Trump is going to jail, I guess he won’t be president again. How about I take Trump to win in 2024 at 100-1 odds? I’ll bet you $200 to win $20,000. I’d bet more there, but I doubt you could afford the loss.
But I digress
Anyways, I want to pin some of Bruce Haywood’s screeching monkey shit here so I can come back and laugh at it on November 9th. Here you go, you idiot monkey – have a couple of bananas:
I just wish I could see Bruce’s fat, stupid, slack-jawed manatee face on November 9th when he realizes Francis O’Rourke is a three-time loser and he gets four more years of Abbott. He’ll shit his Depends and head out for 10,000 calories of Whataburger, no doubt.
The LEDC is about to piss away a LOT of money to advertise its Business Pork project. How much? About $15,000, according to the latest LEDC packets [see page 32]:
Yeah…$66 per second sounds like a good price!
I have to wonder out loud why they need to advertise at all. Mandy told us they ALREADY HAVE “about four” serious prospects…remember?
You might remember the name “Neon Cloud”. I know I did. I was sure I heard it before. So I searched this blog. Sure enough – the LEDC blew $3,354.86 with Neon Cloud back in 2018 to promote this VERY SAME Business Pork project:
Of course, back then we heard a lot of the same old bullshit. Companies were going to move into the Business Pork ANY MINUTE now! Here is what former councilwoman Delena Toups said in 2017 – over FIVE YEARS AGO!
“Ms. Toups said she wants to continue to provide infrastructure to develop the business park. Ms. Toups said through the Lampasas Economic Development Corp.’s hard work, “we are on the verge of seeing large corporations come in [to the business park].” – April 21, 2017
Ouch. Hard to be more wrong than that, unless your name is Bruce Haywood.
Something else in this month’s packet struck me as hilarious. They are concentrating on three tracts with the current millions they are wasting:
None of those tracts is over 4 acres [see pages 28 – 30]. Tract 10 is only 4 acres. Tracts 11 and 12 are 3.5 acres each.
But the City ALREADY owns an “Industrial Park” which is larger than all of those tracts. It is 5.56 acres and they STILL have not been able to fill it! Supposedly Martin Rod & Custom is going to “do a deal” with the City, but that nonsense started almost 10 months ago and there is STILL no deal.
So if you can’t get a tenant for 5.6 acres, how are you going to get a tenant for those 3.5 and 4-acre plots?
I guess it’s best not to ask those simple questions. Just let the LEDC keep flushing millions down the toilet. I’m sure someone will eventually show up!
I seriously think this idiot needs to be institutionalized. Can manatees be rabid? Because this one definitely is. Somebody in his family needs to take him to the vet at the closest aquarium and have him put down before he hurts himself.
I’ve never seen such a profound case of Trump Derangement Syndrome as I’ve seen in Bruce Haywood. Between his TDS and morbid obesity, Bruce will be in an early grave.
Which is actually fine by me.
Let’s look at Bruce’s latest stupidity:
Property taxes: yes Bruce – they suck. We agree on that. Of course, they go up and up and up because idiots like yourself and Clayton Tucker demand “free” stuff at the schools like three meals a day and endless laptops for everybody. You also demand teachers (and cops) get paid a lot more and have smaller classes. All of that costs a LOT of money – and a BIG chunk comes out of your property taxes. So fuck you. You brought that on yourself.
Bruce REALLY hates those property taxes because he can’t avoid them, like he does with federal income taxes – which he admits he hasn’t paid in 23 years….
You see, Bruce is a parasite. He doesn’t work at the ripe old age of 58. There is no way in hell this is because he retired early due to brains and a successful business. I’m betting it’s because he gets checks from the government. I’m guessing he claims he is “disabled”. In my book, being 200 pounds overweight isn’t an actual disability. It’s proof you’re a gluttonous slob who lacks willpower.
Repulsive
Here is a typical day for Bruce the Parasite: he stays up until 2am posting anti-Trump crap and pro-Beto crap on Facebook while yelling to himself and sputtering saliva all over his own face. This is called “cardio” in Bruce’s house. Then he sleeps until about noon the next day. Then he gets up, eats a big pile of Whattaburger and starts all over again….
Disgusting slob
Sometimes he switches it up and pours gallons of butter down his gullet at Krab Kingz – his other favorite….
Gruesome and appalling.
I imagine he just sits all day in a giant La-Z-Boy recliner covered in a plastic liner while he sweats buttery pig grease all over himself, smelling of old lady piss while lounging in his crusty yellow underwear. What a fucking loser….and you and I pay for it.
Electricity bills: Bruce is a massive hypocrite here. Bruce LOVES solar and windmills – the VERY TWO THINGS that are making the grid unstable and require us to spend MORE and MORE money to build RELIABLE power plants powered by natural gas and oil. Hell, just TWO DAYS ago, the wind was essentially ZERO and provided less than ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT (.004) of the day’s electricity.
On those days, fossil fuels save the day – that means money. Of course, dipshit Bruce never even has to worry about his power going out because he is on a grid with a hospital, according to him. So on those days when power is tight (thanks to greentarded policies pushed by Bruce himself) he is sitting there with his AC on full blast and his pool pump running all day while other people suffer for his stupidity.
Haywood’s Hovel devoid of any solar panels. What a hypocritical scrote he is.
Internet bills: more bullshit from the parasite. Internet has gotten WAY cheaper thanks to competition and the arrival of Nextlink – which BRUCE HIMSELF admits he has. It is less than $100 a month and has very good speeds. Any increases in OTHER Internet prices is because morons like Bruce and Clayton Tucker demand that Internet is a RIGHT and everybody should get it free or subsidized – which means the rest of us pay for the freeloaders.
Once again, the rest of us pay for the bums and freeloaders….like Bruce and Clayton…
Phone bill: see the above argument about Internet. All those “Obama phones” and other “free stuff” we hand to freeloaders and bums? The rest of us pay for it. It works the same way as the hospitals. When freeloaders don’t pay their bills, those of us who DO shell out for insurance (like me) get charged $9 for a fucking aspirin so they can make up the losses somewhere else.
What morons like Bruce cannot comprehend is that NOTHING is free. Not school lunches, not Obama phones, not Internet, not trips to the emergency room, not windmills or any of his other libtard pipe dreams. SOMEBODY ELSE pays for it.
The very shit Bruce is whining about is because of policies HE SCREAMS FOR! Can you get any dumber than that? It’s like shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming the company that made the bullet – which sounds exactly like something this idiot might actually do one day. If he could even see his foot, that is.
In short Bruce, shut the fuck up and be happy you are already sponging so much off the taxpayer you can sleep all day and sit around doing nothing but posting Trump screeds and eating junk food in your greasy recliner, you unbelievable parasitic scumbag.
Notes from the latest (8/8/22) City council meeting regarding the budget:
“Salaries will see a 7.4% increase over current budget“– according to City manager Finley deGraffenreid [56 minute mark].
In 2013, total City salaries were approximately $3.9 million [see packet] . In the current budget being discussed, salaries are approximately $7.3 million. This implies a compound annual growth rate of 7.2% per year.
Inflation during that period averaged 2.7%. Therefore, salaries have risen 166% faster than inflation (i.e. 2.6 times faster). There IS and WAS no need for a COLA last month. Employees are ALREADY being compensated far faster than inflation. This is indisputable math. Population growth in Lampasas was negligible at less than 1% per annum.
The retirement plan for the City employees is with the Texas Municipal Retirement System “TMRS”. The employees contribute seven percent (7%) and the City matches at roughly a TWO TO ONE ratio. So the City contributes roughly $14,000 for every $7,000 put in by an employee.
That is REAL money – paid for by YOU.
In 2013, the City contribution rate was 15.21% and carried an annual cost of $661,884. The CURRENT City contribution rate is 16% and carries an annual cost of over $930,000. The City is now close to paying out one million dollars per year just in matching retirement contributions at 2-1.
In 2016, City salaries and benefits made up 28% of the City budget (20% salaries and 8% benefits).
In current budget, salaries and benefits eat up 30% of budget.
Is it Police Chief Cummings? Mayor Thelma Jean? Randy “Speedbump” Clarke? ‘Doctor’ Chane Rascoe?
Let’s look at the conflicting information given in the SAME ARTICLE today in the Lampasas Dispatch:
Statement #1: “Police Chief Jody Cummings said Lampasas Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Chane Rascoe began discussions about adding SROs immediately after the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
[Makes it sound like Rascoe is on the ball and immediately dealing with this. Although in my opinion, there isn’t much to deal with. Uvalde fucked up badly. Not us.]
Statement #2: “Councilman Randy Clark expressed his frustration that the discussion was occurring so late in the budget process. “This is last minute… I’m very disappointed about that,” he said. “I’m disappointed that no one is here from the schools”.
Statement #3: [transcript from council video – go to 33:00 mark, as I said days ago] “Mayor TJ Monroe agreed. ‘I think I feel the frustration of all the council,’ she said, adding that the council previously held a special session to discuss the state of the police department and school security.
“THAT was the point for the school district to say what they needed,but they didn’t come forward,” Monroe said. “We’ve spent the summer working on what we thought was a balanced budget, and now they’ve thrown what could be $300,000 to $400,000 into our budget.”
So in statements #2 and #3 (in the SAME ARTICLE) Thelma and Speedbump are saying the opposite: that Chane and the LISD didn’t make a peep until just recently and are going to blow a $400,000 hole in the budget.
This is typical of City council, of course. Making massive expenditures in a big fat hurry with little to no deliberation. It just so happens this was the ONE time it wasn’t really their fault. Sounds like it was Chane Rascoe’s fault. Or perhaps Chief Cummings never relayed the message after he supposedly met with Chane “immediately after” Uvalde.
Somebody dropped the ball. Of course, we will NEVER hear that admitted (kinda like the skate park fiasco). Instead, the taxpayer just gets soaked to “fix” everything (also like the skate park!).
Of course, there are better solutions than wasting another $400,000. You can find those solutions at the link below:
Oddly, in addition to the $72,000 in ‘free’ hookups, Finney was ALSO handed $33,324 in tax dollars “for drainage improvements his contractor will make on Westridge Place…” [see page 10 in Lampasas Dispatch].
So lemme get this straight. The City hands Deorald $33,324 to “improve drainage on Westridge”. NOW there are drainage issues on Fairview – which is literally less than two blocks over.
Gee. I wonder if the two are related! Zac Morris was the only council member to even question this massive expense for a STUDY. The other braindead council members like Williamson, Monroe and Kuehne just whipped out their rubber stamps and wrote the checks.