Texas Budget Irony

I took this screenshot of two headlines from mywesttexas.com. The first story is about how the City of Midland is choosing to reward the Sports & Entertainment Association of Midland for burning through their $135,000 budget in eight months by giving them even more money to burn. The second story highlights the state having an $18 billion deficit. While not necessarily directly related, it’s poor financial decisions like these that have helped lead us into our current state of financial difficulty.

Links to original stories:

http://mywesttexas.com/articles/2010/05/12/news/top_stories/council.txt

http://mywesttexas.com/articles/2010/05/12/news/top_stories/texas_18_billion_budget_shortfall.txt