Mayor Sam 'Mr. Shrink-flation' Joshi's $158 million Pig of a Budget - Expect the Council to turn a blind eye to the Outrageous $pending

 Well, after last night's Council worksession, it hard not to shake your head and wonder what the heck is wrong with these people. A blatantly lame attempt to block public scrutiny into an inexperienced administration by the Edison Council.

It's not only an embarassment to watch but the Lack of Checks & Balances and Transparency you can expect to see from the Council with Mayor Sam 'Mr. Shrink-flation' Joshi's stewardship.

This undoubtedly will be demonstrated again with their adoption of Mr. Shrink-flation's Ridiculous $158 million Muni budget for 2022 with its Out of Control and Self-Serving $pending that comes with Unnecessary Tax Increases in both the Muni and Library taxes (you can see how this Muni budget for 2022 effects your taxes in a previous post).

Here's just a sample of the excesses - the Administraton Salaries, which more than doubles last year:

Since when is it our responsibility to pay exorbitant amounts for the political operatives they have to surround him with just so he does what he's told and to make sure he doesn't run the town off the rails?

Don't expect this Council to do anything but adopt this Ridiculous $158 million Muni budget for 2022. They have already demonstrated in last night's meeting who they really represent and have now elevated themselves to totally useless in serving the public interest here in Downtown Edison.

About the only unanswered question is which one of Mr. Shrik-flation's Council cronies with be assigned the dubious task of of trying to put lipstick on this pig of a budget with a bunch of useless hyperbole that can quickly be challenged by anyone just with a simple look at the budget itself.

Most likely it won't be the Council Leadership. I'm sure they wouldn't have a clue of what's even in this budget and wouldn't want to be the one to explain and defend it - more likely it'll be one of the newbies given a set of talking points ignoring the obvious deficiencies.

After last night's Council performance and in anticipation tomorrow night's Council meeting let's recognize the Council for what it is - useless:

Anyhoo, at least we're comforted in the knowledge that the only supporting documents this Administration claims to have to support their ridiculous numbers in this budget - is the budget itself.