Barletta’s Budget Promises More Pain for Hazleton
A couple of days ago, Mayor Lou Barletta presented his budget for the city of Hazleton to City Council. The budget is filled with tax increases and police layoffs. Under Barletta’s “leadership”, Hazleton has become one of the most financially distressed cities in the state. It’s already teetering on the edge of financial collapse, a direct result of Mayor Barletta’s horrible decision making. This budget does little to ease the city’s financial crisis and adds more pain to a population that has already been drilled into the dirt by Lou Barletta’s incompetence.
And while all of this is very bad news for the people of Hazleton, voters all across the state should take notice. This is because Barletta continues to hint that he might want to try another run at Congress. Take a moment to allow that to sink in. Mayor Lou Barletta, who has ruined an entire city with his patented combination of poor judgment and political grandstanding, now wants to bring his brand of leadership to the halls of the United States Congress. Based on his past history, Barletta being elected to Congress would end in disaster, almost all of which would be shouldered by his constituents.
Barletta has proven time and again that he has no understanding of managing a budget, economics, or managing debt. The city of Hazleton is a mess, a direct result of Barletta’s destructive and divisive leadership style. Barletta has served multiple terms as Hazleton’s mayor, and things have gone from bad to worse. This new budget of his is further proof that his handling of the city’s finances has been a bad joke, and now all that he can think of is to raises taxes and lay people off. Just the kind of leadership America needs right about now, eh?
Lou Barletta is, for lack of a better word, an idiot. He has used his position as Mayor of Hazleton to ruin the city, driving the city deeper and deeper into debt. What’s worse, this man is now considering a run for US Congress. I guess Barletta assumes that since he’s broken the city of Hazleton into as many pieces as humanly possible, he should set his sites on bigger things to wreck. Like the 11th Congressional District. Lou Barletta should, at all costs, be kept out of the United States Congress.
See also: Barletta Makes More Excuses for His Failures and Hazleton’s Financial Problems Might Get Even Worse
-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com
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