100 Million Dollar Short fall and Dallas May cut Police and Firemen and Hours

[Dee]

Just watched the local news, and Dallas has a 100 million dollar short fall in their budget. They are saying they will have to force Police and Firemen to take UNPAID LEAVE, and cut working hours of some, and lay off some.
AAAAAAAAAAAAH yes, the economy is recovering and jobs are up. I feel better already. Now if I could just find a job.

[torpedoman]

yes lay off the police and firemen just don't touch the unproductive bureaucrat in the city government. Strange how the safety people are the first they want to cut, maybe it makes it easier to get people to agree to a raise in taxes.

[Dee]

Although I live 50 miles north of Dallas, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

[billy_56081]

They are doing and saying this to cause problems and inconveniences to the people of Dallas. Then they will get support for raising taxes. If they cut the bureaucrat jobs no one would notice.

[gypsyman]

Must be taking lessons from us yankee's. Been doing that for years up here. Toledo,which thakfully I don't live in, but the wife works in the downtown area, has done that for over 20 years. First thing they always do, shut down the city parks,no public pools,garbarge pick up, and cut street law officers. Notice, everything to do with the public. Never any administrators or secretary's, never any benifits for politicians. Yep, must be taking lessons from us yankees. gypsyman

[magooch]

I think it's the same, no matter where you go; the do-gooders who always work their way into government and bureaucracies never quit finding ways to justify and rationalize ever increasing spending.  With the economy not what it should be and a pretty high unemployment rate, our local fire protection distract has decided it woul be great to build a new $3.5 million fire station.  Not that we don't already have a fire station, but they just want to have a better one.  Our fire station has always been manned by volunteers, but now the do-gooders think we should have some full-time people. 

To my knowledge there have been zero fires in our little community.  This isn't even a town--just a suburb.  The proposal goes ahead unless the citizens raise a petition to stop it.  Our property taxes will go up by $1500, or more per year.  I'm already paying more in property taxes per year than what my house payments were when the bank and I shared ownership.  We're only kidding ourselves when we think we own something.  The real owners are the state, county, port district, school district, diking district, fire district, library district....

[wareagleguy]

Try Farming.

[searlock]

humans host four kind of lice; head,body, pubic and po lice, the first three you can get rid of by poison, the last one you can never free yourself of.

[dukkillr]

humans host four kind of lice; head,body, pubic and po lice, the first three you can get rid of by poison, the last one you can never free yourself of.

How have I never heard that before!?!