It’s been a slow week. Had to chair the Council meeting this week as the Mayor was out of town. It doesn’t happen hardly ever and it was enjoyable. Yesterday my back went out again – it’s a nerve, disc thing and it flares up about once a year or so. I hope that it clears up by late tomorrow – I’m supposed to speak at a conference on Friday and it would be nice if I can stand…:)

Also, the Tour de France is on now so that is swallowing about 2 hours a day in TV time. It’s weird to go from about 15 minutes a day of TV time to 2-3 hours. Most of the flat stages go pretty fast though – there isn’t much that happens until right at the end anyways. The mountain stages are a lot more exciting….

I’ll post an update back when I get back from the conference…

Oh, also, Cindy Brookshire sent me the following information: The Prince William County Continuum of Care’s Community Forum on the Draft Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness Tues., July 20, 10 a.m. to noon at Westminster at Lake Ridge Retirement Community, 12191 Clipper Dr., Woodbridge and again on Mon., July 26 from 7 to 9 pm at Trinity Episcopal Church, 9325 West St., Manassas. Questions? Contact Frances Harris at 703-441-8606.

Check it out if you’re interested. Cindy is a very involved citizen and her involvement in all things Manassas is certainly an inspiration to me…..

I was checking out the WaPo this morning and I ran across a report on President Obama’s debt reduction panel. Their report isn’t due until the fall but the Post was covering a speech given by one of the members of said panel to a Governor’s Association meeting.

The story itself was pretty much what one would expect but the quote that caught my eye was this: “The commission leaders said that, at present, available federal revenues are fully consumed by just three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “The rest of the federal government, including fighting two wars, homeland security, education, art, culture, you name it, veterans, the whole rest of the discretionary budget is being financed by China and other countries,” Simpson said.”

That’s pretty incredible and neither political party has done anything about it. Worse yet, I don’t see any serious leadership on this issue anywhere on the horizon. Leadership on an issue this big will have to come from the White House and we haven’t had that kind of gumption in a president for 20 years at least.

Can you imagine if we ran the City like that?

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