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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

What's in your wallet?

Can the local government in these parts buy anything without borrowing money for it? Here's another new line of credit -- $5 million -- for new computers for the Portland Development Commission. A five-year line of credit -- which means that the stuff will probably be obsolete long before the debt is paid off.

Posted at 11:06 AM | Bookmark and Share

Comments (6)

Geez, how many new computers do they need? I bet they'll pay $2k a pop for computers half as fast as yours, Jack.

Posted by Joey Link | June 24, 2008 12:03 PM

They don't have friends like I do.

8c)

Posted by Jack Bog | June 24, 2008 12:04 PM

Oh I'll bet they have "friends" that are only too happy to sell things to them.

Posted by PanchoPdx | June 24, 2008 12:48 PM

Another black day for fiscal responsibility.

Posted by KISS | June 24, 2008 1:05 PM

When they start borrowing money to pay interest bonds they can't afford to service, I'm moving.

Posted by Oh my | June 24, 2008 4:22 PM

I'm not moving until they start selling bonds to pay for bonds paying interest on bonds they sold to pay off the director's severance package.

Posted by lw | June 24, 2008 10:26 PM




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