A Fox Visits the Muscle Shoals Hen House

 

A guest blog from Hen House Foxy. We hope to hear more from HHF as 2021 progresses. 

WWYD?

You are the head of the family. You have an income of $24,000.00 per year.

Your 3 children all get allowances although 1 (we will call him Ched) works and earns $32,000.00 per year including his allowance. 

Ched doesn't do a good job managing his finances. Ched loves to play and drives expensive vehicles while letting friends hang out on his expensive boats and in his RV. But payments on his toys are limiting his ability to borrow more money for additional toys and extravagant trips.

Ched demands more money from dad, after all, he is the first born and doesn't eat many meals at home since his credit card works well for dining out.

 

Ched's debt is piling up and getting in the way of fun, so he calls mommy, uncle and grandpa to gain allies in his quest for more money. They are not very understanding of finances and will surely help him out since he is the favorite of the children anyway. 

All was going as Ched planned till the other children heard his plan. What about their worn shoes, the medical bills for the surgery on the little one's ongoing health issues not to mention the home repairs that are critical to the safety of the family? Surely Dad won't give more money to Ched when he makes even more money than dad makes!!!

What will dad do? 

What Would You Do if you were dad?

Muscle Shoals Citizens - this is all about YOU and your City government.

Muscle Shoals City Budget is $24,000,000.00   -        YES - 24 MILLION

Muscle Shoals Schools Budget is $32,000,000.00  -  YES - 32 MILLION

Citizens voted overwhelmingly against additional taxes for the school system in 2018. Yet, the new mayor and some of the council members are now going around the backs of the citizens to do it anyway. The NEW MAYOR and some of the council members are working to give the schools an ADDITIONAL 8% TAX. The school system already gets 12 MILLION in local funding.

For those of you who voted these people into office - go on up to city hall and write a check since you are the ones responsible for the bloated budgets and these weak minded people that don't understand finances that are sitting on the council and in the mayor's seat.

And, by the way, you are about to get an INCREASE ON YOUR SANITATION BILL every month.

All the while, people are out of work, businesses are closing, schools are limping along, hospitals are full, and Muscle Shoals City Mayor and some council members are going to raise your fees and give more money to a school system that has a little over 2800 students and brings in 8 MILLION DOLLARS MORE than the City does that has almost 15,000 citizens and businesses to provide services to.

Muscle Shoals, if you put up with this, all I can say is I have to borrow Sam Elliott's statement "You're a special kind of stupid".

Let's drain Muscle Shoals Swamp.