[Stentor]

Socking /S

[fortheDeclaration]

Let them eat PIE!

[Mac from Cleveland]

It’s so bad the Panthers in Philly are switching to generic billy clubs.

[Glenn]

Don’t they usually start with cuts in crossing guards? What kind of Democrats are these?

[beebuster2000]

I guess it would be “Nutter cutting time” then?

[Tallguy]

If things get bad enough, Philly might re-evaluate it’s one-party system. Probably not in my lifetime.

[edcoil]

unfortunate name.

[Miss Behave]

Nutter Cuts Fluffer. He better keep his lunch-hooks off of mine.

[antiRepublicrat]

Nutter? It would be funny if this article were from a British magazine.

[2banana]

Pensions, salaries and benefits make up 75% of any city budget - and they never get touched in downturns...

[Kid Shelleen]

**** Philly Metro/Delaware Valley Ping ****

[JrsyJack]

So within 48 hours of the Obama miracle 2 major eastern city mayors have decided to announce budget shortfalls, rolling back or suspension of tax reductions and service cuts. Yet, nowhere in neither Nutter's nor Bloomberg's statement do I see one word about reducing the size of the bureaucracy of government.

These people will never learn. They will have to endure the closing of rec centers, the laying off of police and fire personnel, rising wage taxes and municipal service fees.

All that being said, I have not one ounce of sympathy for the residents of Philly or NY. They elect these people over and over, they elect the same types of people for President, Senator and Congress. Suffer in your self-made misery. I have enough misery in NJ without worrying about the decline of Phila. to a second rate, has-been city.