Fiddy state parks closed down





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its a truly sad world we live in when sk8 parks are getting shut down!!!!

I wish I lived somewhere else... This state blows.

that is a pretty sad news

Why should be suffer because the gov't cant curb their spending habits??

Just like Maryland - My lady works at a State Psych facility, is getting furloughs. Meanwhile they're repaving our road, which was completely fine along with every other road around here. They're blowing money on buying new choppers instead of getting them refurbed for a % of the cost, but people continue to lose their jobs and get pay cuts, etc...Makes no sense to me what so ever.

One of the problems is that it seems like once the government budgets money for something they refuse to spend it on anything else. For example my buddy works for a small city and right now they, like many cities around the nation are having money problems. They had money budgeted for some road work and some other stuff. When the time came around the roads they were going to fix were fine and could have gone for a few more years before getting fixed. Meanwhile they had a budget shortage for the fire department and other areas and they considered laying off a few people including a couple of fireman. In the end they wasted the money on the road and laid people off (including cutting the department that does building inspections and gives permits down to three day work weeks as well as laying off a fireman) when they could have put the road work off and spent that money on other areas.

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! :disgust

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.

I don't know which is worse to see, what goes in the morgue, what goes into hotdogs or bologny, or what goes into budgets :repuke

That is a very good point.

its much easier for them to collect the reparations and gov. subsidy checks and setup casinos than taking their land back. and i think they're pretty fucking cute too

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It's pretty stupid, we can only water on Mondays and Thursday now because of Water Shortage, they are taking away our Parks, laying off Fireman, Cops and most importantly Teachers. SO STUPID!!!

Just wait until next year when all the stupid fucking accounting tricks they used to balance the budget hit. I'm ready to get the fuck out of this state.

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Duke

you have the same problem as most people.... you refer to the money as "their money". its YOUR MONEY and YOU let them squander it.

any legitimately elected government is only as good as the peoples interest in it and the peoples desire to hold them accountable.

they are basically like little kids whose parents are alcoholics and rarely around. of course, they act like idiots. why wouldn't they? of course they don't manage money well... who is teaching them to do it well? who is demanding they be responsible. who is creating consequences for bad spending? when they want money, all they need to do is to dip into your pockets and take more because you and all the collective "parents" grumble a bit and hand it right over and perpetuate the cycle that is the direct result of shitty parenting, not "bad kids"