From CNN – The mayor of Los Angeles, California, called Tuesday for a plan to shut down all city services — except for public safety and revenue-generating positions — twice a week beginning Monday in an effort to solve the city’s budget crisis.
“There are no easy decisions or simple ways to solve this budget crisis,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. “But as the CEO of this great city, it is my responsibility to make these difficult, but necessary, decisions to steer the city out of this crisis and onto solid financial ground.”
He said he was asking the city administrative officer to develop a plan to shut down the city for two days a week and calculate the money the city would save from the move….
I think this is the wave of things to come. California sets the tone for everything in America, including politics and spending. When you have decades of bailing out everyone with taxpayer-funded “social justice”, this is what you get.
It sort of reminds me of the squirrel in my yard. He barely noticed me for a long time. One day, I put some peanut butter out for him. He gobbled it up. Then I gave him some more, for several days in a row…..
One day I didn’t have any peanut butter, and he stood on my window sill, watching me eat my lunch inside, looking like “Hey buddy, quit stuffing your pie hole and feed me, or I’ll kill you.”
That’s California in a nutshell. Damn glad we got out while the getting was good.
–Michael W. Dean
p.s. When Los Angeles says they’re cutting off everything except for public safety and revenue-generating positions, I believe the second part – hell, they’ll ADD more meter maids. But public safety? They laid off a bunch of cops and firemen six months ago and let a lot of people out of prison early, including some violent offenders and kiddie touchers.
As soon as they give out vouchers for welfare, as they’ve talked about, the result will rival the LA Riots.
Kind of makes Cheyenne’s little $3m shortfall seem pithy. Looks like they’re solving it by deferring a payment (with the agency owed’s OK) and cutting back on some (probably unneeded) workforce.
Here in Pine Bluffs, our budget shortfall is almost non-existent. The mayor and council decided not to do some things because we don’t have the cash right now. Nothing big going away, just planned projects that can be put off.
Or, Pine Bluffs could have a bake sale !
MWD
If you give a squirrel a fish, he’ll eat for a day.
But if you give a squirrel a fishing pole, and teach him how to fish, he’ll eat for life.
LOL!
MWD
Welfare Squirrels On Crack: Tales from the New America
The title of my latest novel.
May I write the foreword? Or a blurb for the back? I usually only do that when asked, but I’d beg to do that.
MWD
If anything I write ever comes close to being publishable, I will certainly be honored to have you write a forward, a blurb, or even a scathing criticism of it—criticism from you is better than praise from anyone else!
But mostly I write for myself, so it’ll never happen…
Feel free to steal the title, if you want!
Glad you finally made it out of there and moved to America.
See what happens when we have “progress”…
Progress or Congress: A Tail of two Squirrels
it could sale….