Last night’s City Council performance by Public Comment Speaker and Taurus, Brexton Isaacs (with a supporting role from his close friend, Annie Kehler), was off the mark with most everything he stated, especially in the context of the area of Millennials.

The Millennial concept has long been a proverbial ship this Administration has anchored its spending agenda to.

Instead of the childish and unprofessional individual character assaults guised under public comment as concern for . . . well, nothing, for that matter – except for the negative publicity stunt – citizens should pay close attention to what is actually being played out.

In the process of this political charade, Isaacs, along with other elected officials including the Mayor and Alderman Scott Black, have long-touted the justification of the huge spending agenda in order to implement, first, a culture change in Bloomington, that among other things, is taking away your elected Alderman’s ability to speak for your best interests, second, and agenda that has redefined what quality of life means, and third, to spend increasing amounts of taxpayer dollars (that means higher taxes) on projects and programs that really have nothing to do with what Bloomington and its citizens really need and deserve.

This spending agenda includes diverting $17 million tax dollars to a hotel project that is not needed nor wanted, but more importantly, not warranted under any circumstance imagined, at least at this point in time.

It includes spending millions on projects to implement a plan for downtown that also was clearly rejected time and time again by citizens that will have no proven affect or impact, except to raise taxes, again.

It includes spending more tax dollars to support the behemoth liability of a coliseum that clearly cannot support itself, and like the proposed hotel, was built despite the broad opposition it faced before it was built.

This is a spending agenda that uses significant increases in taxes to build bigger local government that increasingly limits citizens’ ability to determine what’s best for them and the community,along with extraordinary costs to pay employees exorbitant salaries.

Last night, Brexton Isaacs, speaking as a representative of and obviously for the Millennials in our community, supported every one of those factors.

However, there are statistics that prove that Isaacs is off the mark in his facts, and his representative status for the Millennials.

Research shows that:

1. Millennials are highly skeptical of government action.
2. Two-thirds of millennials polled indicate government is usually ineffective and wasteful.
3. Over sixty percent say that government cater to special interests.
4. Nearly 60% feel that government generally (not occasionally) abuse their power.
5. Millennials prefer free markets, not managed ones.
6. 65% believe government should reduce spending.
7. 58% are in favor of cutting taxes.
8. Nearly 60% want smaller government and fewer services if it means higher taxes.
(Source: Reason Magazine; October, 2014)

These insightful facts about Millennials squarely fly in the face of Isaacs’ speech to the Council.

The ongoing and ever burdening spending agenda is not supported any longer by the attempted justification that this is what Millennials want.

It seems that comments in the past by Mayor Renner and Alderman Black regarding the Millennial position were wrong.   It now seems evident that about the only thing different from what the Millennial wants and needs compared to what the rest of the majority want and need is the age.

This isn’t about he said, she said. It’s about you pay, they spend. But, the buck stops here!

The bottom line is, that in all honesty, there is no support for the spending agenda this administration is forcing on Bloomington despite what your Mayor tells you, what Alderman Black tells you, or what the Taurus, Brexton Isaacs says during his public comment.

The Liberal Pressed