I was reading the Wheeler Report today, when I found a story about the town I grew up in (Sheboygan, WI). I have to say from the story in the Sheboygan Press, my old home has its priorities correct. [FYI: my sarcasm detector is going off the charts.]
In a stunning move Monday night, the Sheboygan Common Council couldn’t come up with enough votes to accept an offer of $2.1 million in economic stimulus funds to buy five new buses for Sheboygan Transit.
Although the vote was 8-7 in favor of accepting the money for the five, 35-foot buses and other equipment, the measure needed 11 votes –two-thirds of the 16-member council — to pass.
Also on Monday night, the council voted 8-7 to move its Monday night meeting on Oct. 5 to Tuesday, Oct. 6, so as not to conflict with the Green Bay Packers televised football game against the Minnesota Vikings…
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Let me see if I understand this correctly: Sheboygan can’t accept free money from the federal government to improve transportation systems for its residents, but it can change the time of government meetings to accommodate Packer games.
The best part is later in the article, they describe that the buses are at least 20 years old and the main reason for rejecting the stimulus funds was that “no one rides the bus”. No one, however, bothered to point out that there isn’t a large abundance of 1989 cars on the road either. Seriously? No one thought to think that the reason people don’t want to ride public transportation is that the buses are 20 years old.
Again: Ya’all got your priorities in the right place.
