The chickens are home and now roosting.

Last year Dyster told the press, "We have prided ourselves on sound financial management and therefore have funds available now because of past good decisions that can help us weather the storm."

The Reporter wrote, almost one year ago to this day, “The storm is far from over… The good mayor simply dipped into the city's reserves in order not to raise taxes or cut spending in an election year. … Unless there are massive cuts in spending next year … there will be a large tax increase needed in 2013 to cover (the) growing gap between spending and taxing that is likely to occur in 2013.”

We look like prophets no doubt but frankly anyone with a brain slightly larger than a pea could have seen what was coming.