Even the Enquirer....

The Enquirer ed page, which has been a reliable cheerleader for the disastrous policies of Mayor Mallory, Milton Dohoney and Roxanne Qualls, or more likely AWOL from the debate, yesterday blasted the proposed property tax increase of the cabal in control at City Hall.

Read it here.

Excerpts from the editorial are:

But it’s time to get real. This is no time for a tax increase. It’s time to start living within our means.

Looking to the taxpayers for more is not the answer. Many households, like city government, have been forced to live with less income, either through job loss or pay cuts. To deal with that, they’ve had either to go into debt or to cut expenses.

So, the dominoes start to fall, as their most reliable backstop pulls its support.

But Mallory and Qualls, immune from public input for his foolishness, and controlling the reliable votes of Young, Simpson, Thomas, and Quinlivan, are unlikely to change their path that is devastating our formerly fine City.

Romney!

COAST met with the Romney campaign yesterday, and we must say we are impressed.

Smart, professional, confident.  It is obvious that the grueling primaries have educated these folks, and given them a degree of knowledge and confidence that is undeniably impressive.

Ohio will be ready for the fall push.  We have a strong leader, and strong organization, at the top of the ticket!

"We are in big trouble."

We received this broadcast e-mail message this morning from a North COASTer, and at first dismissed it as another mass e-mailed over-reaction to the day's events. 

Then, we got to thinking.... 

Perhaps this story is even more ominous than that subject line using ordinary vernacular would indicate. 

If we are serious in our warnings that the European debt crisis could envelop America, then this is even more severe, a sign that we can't in the short or long term dig ourselves out of our fiscal mess. 

If lenders see no hope of a debtor ever making good on his obligations, and indeed the debtor will continue digging himself into a hole, isn't that about the time the lender stops lending?

Let us consider the consequence of the path we are on before it's too late.

Read it here.