Spike:

Several reasons can probably be attributed to Des Moines County poor health rankings in Iowa.

Des Moines County has a large and varied drug culture that has resorted to stealing in order to feed its drug habits. Of course the police say crime isn’t increasing but I beg to differ with them on that point. We actually have a cottage industry of drug dealers walking the streets peddling their wares to local inhabitants on a 24 hour basis.

For the Record in the Hawk Eye can’t possible cover all the crimes everyday but you can go to the police web site and click on police department and then Daily Activity Log where the entire list of incidents is recorded on a daily basis.

SEIRPC brings people from who knows where to fill all the jobs in Burlington because Burlington needed the workers, at least that’s what was published a while back in the Hawk Eye. Problem is there are no jobs in Burlington where anyone could make a living at.

I often wonder if those companies that got TIF money in Des Moines County are sticking to their contracts because we never here a word about it after they take our money and move into town. Are they paying a livable wage of $10.50, have they hired the number of full time people they said they word and just how many temporary’s have they hired to beat the system? Why doesn’t the Chamber tell us how these firms are doing and if they’ve become delinquent in their agreements? Why doesn’t the city tell us what’s going on with these firms whose taxes we’ve been paying for the schools, fire protection and other entities?

Government in Des Moines County is a total failure and only seeks to protect its employee’s while crapping on the taxpayers as though they don’t exist. The taxpayer has no representation in Des Moines County where local government does everything in its power to provide the good life to its employees by stealing from the taxpayer in the form of excessive taxes and fees.

Burlington has been ruined by local government and a state that has neglected southeast Iowa for years while spending most tax dollars on the central portion of the state. Most of the undesirable counties in Iowa are border counties where people from Illinois, Nebraska and Missouri desire to settle because they can get back home easily while taking advantage of Iowa’s high paying welfare benefits.

We also have a state that spent $94 million tax dollars on illegal aliens rather than on its own citizens.

The Democratic Party is responsible for the decline of Iowa and its cities; there is just no doubt about it.

Iowa Sucks