They will have to be paid back at the local level too, because no locality in this country will be able to escape the forced austerity measures that will take place.  When the bill comes due we will all pay through the teeth for all of these thoughtful measures of good intent.  

It will be the locals that lose their jobs and cannot buy meat, or bread, or gasoline.  It will be the locals whose expenses will far surpass their revenues who must then look to family, friends, the church and other charities to keep their children from going hungry and in shoes.  It will be the locals that will lose their jobs as employers find their customer base has also grown austere.  

These sorts of pie-in-the-sky projects that provide minimal benefits among tangible costs do a lot more to hurt the children than they do to benefit them--the inevitable economic collapse we face just around the bend if we cannot learn to say no, will harm a lot of kids.  We must place our faith back in the free market where profit driven companies select market solutions based upon their customer's desires.  And, if their free market solutions fail to turn a profit, we must allow those companies that made those gambles (with their own money, mind you, not the money granted to them by bureaucrats seeking a blessed outcome) to fail miserably.

We shouldn't be attacking Mayor Daniels, we should be demanding that thousands of other local and state leaders around the country act in exactly the same way.

Of course, in the real world outside of Troy, this is not how things work.  During the time of TARP, when hundreds of billions of dollars were being aimed not so much on shovel ready projects as they were at bailing out fiscally undisciplined states, RINO Gov. Schwarzenegger declared that he would gladly accept any money for California that was turned down by other states.  

Believe me, California, many billions of dollars in debt, would still love the few million that Troy turned down--for the future!.