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Originally Posted by Lace
Exact same thing they're doing here. They just cut back on police in certain areas, adding more holidays for state workers, and god knows what else. It's quite ridiculous that once again - we suffer because they cannot budget their money properly and adequately. They just laid off 200 state workers but hey, at least my road is nice and smooth - as if it wasn't before!  |
Yep. I would understand the cut backs and layoffs and eliminating of some things if they budgeted wisely and shifted their money to where it is most needed, but still came up short. It just annoys me to see them spend money on something they don't need while getting rid of something they do need.
My buddy that works in this small city is a cop and he is in charge of all the firearms training and stuff like that. About 4 years ago they canceled the last range fire day of the fiscal year because they didn't have enough money left in the budget to buy the ammo a range fire/training day would take. That same week the guy that works in the city planning department bought a new computer for his office that he planned to mostly use to run the city's fantasy football league and poker tournaments on. He had extra in his budget and wanted to spend it to make sure he would get it again the next year.
They could have taken that money and bought bullets and had training, but I guess that would have been too easy.