Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.There are few places more deserving of this than Jeeziz Central. Let that be a lesson.
Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.
City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won't pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.
"I guess we're going to find out what the tolerance level is for people," said businessman Chuck Fowler, who is helping lead a private task force brainstorming for city budget fixes. "It's a new day."
Some residents are less sanguine, arguing that cuts to bus services, drug enforcement and treatment and job development are attacks on basic needs for the working class.
"How are people supposed to live? We're not a 'Mayberry R.F.D.' anymore," said Addy Hansen, a criminal justice student who has spoken out about safety cuts. "We're the second-largest city, and growing, in Colorado. We're in trouble. We're in big trouble."
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
Via The Velvet Blog, we are apprised that Colorado Springs (You may have heard of it: Gawd's City.) is in financial trouble. Where's the Holy Checkbook now, Gawd-botherers?
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Read here about how the CO people done digged their own hole. The comments are very revealing as there appears to be a rich vein of Crazee there.
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ReplyDeleteFunny indeed. "The losers' kids will lose." "The successful won't be hurt."
Goes against the narrative that in a democracy, people will vote themselves all the treasury & ruin things. Looks like they can ruin things either way. Ninnies.
You would have thought that those who were elected would have had the sense to plan a budget. It just goes to show that those on top arn't always the most qualified
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