Ridiculous. They must be spending it all on sensitivity training or multicultural murals or something.
Amen! In Cincinnati, city council announced that b/c of budget shortfalls --a.k.a. they didn't get the tax increase they wanted-- there's only enough money to snowplow "major" roads (defined, no doubt as roads where they live).
In Dayton, it was announced that b/c of budget short falls (they didn't get the tax increases they wanted either) they are "forced" to moth ball two fire engines. Frankly, these "cuts" strike me as being more than a bit waspish on the part of city coucils.