Get Rid of Them All 

The Journal is reporting on an effort to shrink the size of the Dept. of Public Works car fleet. As usual when government perks funded by taxpayers are threatened, there will be heated debate:

Amid intense scrutiny of the number of city vehicles and use by managers, a Milwaukee Common Council committee voted Wednesday to give Department of Public Works officials 30 days to decide how to cut the fleet.

During an often emotional meeting, aldermen slammed DPW officials and heaped praise on Dan Blosser, who last week was fired as fleet manager days after submitting a report that called for getting rid of underused vehicles to save money.

At one point, Blosser - who recently had indicated he did not want his job back - pledged to save $5 million in one year if he were put back to work. Later, Ald. Bob Bauman, who is an attorney, told Blosser he had a solid case if he sued the city.
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"I had one guy tell me I'm threatening his family's second car," he said, voice rising. "We're laying off people left and right. You can lose your city car or you can lose your job. That's where we are budgetarily."

I'm taking away your family's second car?! Your family's car? Excuse me?! I don't pay taxes so that your family can have a second car. If we at one point in time had enough money in the coffers to afford a second car for your family, then we should have cut taxes - not bought you a car! Personally I'd like that money back to help pay for my only car thank you very much. I don't care where we are, or were budgetarily, he should never have gotten a second family car in the first place. Government budgets don't grow on trees... they come from people... and government employees don't think about that enough. I'd like to know who that employee was so I could give him a piece of my mind. Get a car loan like the rest of us.