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WwkVoter, I'm not disputing the high costs for retirees. I just don't agree with Cushman's assessment that Warwick is on the brink of fiscal collapse because of it -- he's been saying the same thing for years, and has Warwick had a fiscal crisis like Cranston, Providence, Pawtucket, and Woonsocket? No.

What will lead Warwick into financial problems is increasing spending while not finding efficiencies or raising taxes (sound familiar?).

In any case, Bob is, much like the make-believe mayor who you rightly note is begging him for some kind of legitimate ideas, attacking the former mayor to distract from the problems being created by his party's city councilors -- many of whom have been on the council for many years.

One would think that they would have done something over all those years to stave off the imminent fiscal collapse that Bob has been predicting, since they're the ones who give final approval to the city budget.

That leaves two possibilities: Either the council has taken steps to avoid financial problems and Bob's trying to fool people by saying they didn't; or the Denocrats on the council didn't take those steps and have been delinquent in their duties, which means Bob is trying to fool people by saying they're not responsible for their lack of action.

In the end, though, nothing Bob or the make-believe mayor say (including trying to implicate the group he once calied "the taxpayers council") will influence the city council's decisions.