You gotta love a city where a lack of snow in mountains 100 miles away from downtown equates to a probable tax increase.

There's nothing wrong with running a deficit during a recession.

Time to cut services to people who actually don't live in Seattle but use Seattle resources.

Easy test - ask them what they think of Obama and Taxes. If they hate either, they're not from here.

@1:

And you would know this, how?

Seriously, if you think Seattle is a third world shithole, I pray you never find yourself stranded in an actual third world country - you'd be dead in about 37 seconds.

Hell, I wouldn't give you more than about 20 minutes survival in downtown Detroit for that matter...

True @3. If we had a GOP administration running City Hall right now they'd be telling us deficits don't matter.

"Deficits don't matter" - Dick Cheney

I have every confidence that Mike McGinn will be able to hold a lot of meetings about this issue and then do nothing.

@8 - no, you're thinking of the city council.

hey #2 dipshit, the mountains where seattle's water comes from are about 50 miles away. smaller snowpack=less water available in the summer.

Actually, the biggest chunk of Seattle's power Generation comes from Boundary Dam, which is on the Pend Oreille river, and is a few hours due north of Spokane.