Here’s how Nutter plans to “fix” things:

Hire 100s more cops even though benefits and retirement accounts are taking an increasing share of the city budget.

Have cops stop and frisk anyone who basically looks at them cross-eyed.

Cut taxes and decrease revenue the city needs on the thoroughly discredited “supply side”, “trickle down” theory of economics.

Here’s what I predict:

Police and firemen will continue to get large binding arbitration awards. Like his predecessors, Nutter will ultimately have to freeze hiring since the city already implemented a two-tier wage scale for new hires vs current employees.

The ACLU, probably in conjuction with the NAACP, etc, will sue Philadelphia the first time this happens. The city will have to spend millions defending this undefensible and unconstituation stop and search method.

Nutter will try and force concessions on city municipal workers leading to city wide strikes and probably a long trash strike and/or transit strike at some point.

When the city’s treasury starts getting low, Nutter will have to delay or rescind his tax cuts alienating his business allies.

In four years, Nutter will be the first mayor to lose a reelection bid in a long time.

pd

I will begin by saying that the city of Philadelphia is now reaping what former mayor “fast’ Eddie Rendell has sown. All of his cuts are now paying dividends….a crime rate that is through the roof and a city that is not attracting new business due to enormous taxes. I ask you, would you move your business to Philly? Even worse, would you move your business there AND live there? I predict that the Commonwealth of PA will follow suit when Eddie leaves. What he is doing now won’t be fully realized until he is long gone….swimming in money he made from slot machines!

The main problem in Philadelphia is multi generation welfare recipents. This cause a attituse of no education reliance on goverment handouts and increase in crime.

Philadelphia needs to cut wefair and other hand outs increase education efforts and attract new business and jobs to the area. Taxing business to pay for lasy uneducated bumbs is not the answer Limit welfer to 24 months no increase for additionl children decrease for every child over 2 make welfare unattractive as a carreer .

Only a handful of people are moving to Philly. Dare we compare Philly to Atlanta or Charlotte or Vegas or Denver or…well you get the idea…Ed is a filthy socialist and his policies are a disaster. Unfortunately, it won’t be realized until he is gone. Hundreds of millions of dollars in tax increases and the infrastructure of Philly and the rest of the Commonwealth is falling apart. My school taxes have increased every year since he took office. He has created more new taxes than any previous Gov. He has also raised every existing tax. I beg of you….where is the money going? Someone please tell me! (Besides the new sports facilities…I am aware of those!)

I noticed you said “lived”...past tense….

Atlanta and Charlotte and Vegas are the slums of tomorrow. With oil at nearly $100 a barrel, it won’t be long before those commuter hells are seen for what they are; cheap plastic places based on the illusion that cheap oil will last forever!

Pilt