The City of Big Shoulders sets sail on a spending — oops, ‘investment’ — spree – Truth in Accounting

"When you are this deep into a hole, how do you justify a budget 40 percent higher than it was before the arrival of a worldwide pandemic? Besides praising the leadership of the Biden administration and the fiscal response of the federal government to the pandemic, Lightfoot doubled down on a longstanding tendency of city leaders to call spending 'investment.'"