Do our elected officials find the current housing and credit crisis funny?  With the City Council checking off one plan after another of developments that the city doesn't need, and with no money to connect roads with the sprawl we currently have in place what are these humorists doing? Sharing a joke among themselves as they ad to blight and pollution? What have these city government folks done with the growing vacancy rate throughout the city for both residential and commericial real estate? I have yet to see one plan from one Council Member, or from the City Manager for that matter, that addresses this growing collapse of properties throughout the community. These are the same people who seem to think the only  establishments that are necessary  for people in Bakersfield are fast food eateries and 501 (c)(3) retail outlets, or another WalMart.

Does the Council also joke about our fair city's leading  role in STD cases among the major cities in California? Does the Council joke about the continual abysmal education performance by our local kids? Are they still joking about all the money lost on the Bill Thomas road project? These are really funny people, so funny, that some might call them clowns.