Here’s a quick lesson on fiscal conservative 101. Under no circumstance EVER would a fiscal conservative even consider any financial negotiation where she would agree to pay for something that has already been paid for. Sounds so simple it borders on insult, however, this is exactly what you were trying to do by offering a RETROACTIVE pension increase to the employees.

Now lesson 102 is why you would never agree to bump the current pension benefit at all, ever if it had been on a going forward basis only, but I digress. The simple fact that you did not know from the git-go that the pension give away was akin to selling your own child’s soul to the devil eliminates any opportunity for you to ever credibly discuss yourself as a “fiscal conservative”.

In an effort to clearly illustrate why no fiscal conservative would ever consider a retroactive increase of any kind, consider this elementary example: What if you had been using your own money instead of the tax payers? Add to that the person receiving the money was your gardner and not the city employees. What are the odds you would agree to not only give your gardener a pay raise but that you would agree to give the raise backward for every year he had worked for you even though you had always paid on time for service in years past? Answer: Zero percent chance.

Non of this even touches on the fact the Barack Obama heavily believes in the idea of wealth redistribution as a foundational principal of all his economic policies. As a supporter you can not have it both ways. I understand that you did not take economics as part of your elementary school teacher credential, however, anyone with a basic level of economics knows wealth redistribution is a fiscally LIBERAL philosophy, not conservative.

There must be something you find atractive about the sound of the word “fiscal conservative” but you clearly have no idea what it means.

Mrs. Keller, you are a lot of things like all of us, but one thing you are not is a fiscal conservative.

But the point of this post is Keller’s conservatism which is microscopic, if even extant.

We’re back to square one there. But there’s also a real opportunity. Staff was ready to give it away to McDonald’s. Let’s get a really creative developer/architect. This could be a statement corner.

She also wants to start a city blog!