Posted on 02/16/2024 7:24:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responded to a question on Denver residents who are frustrated that the city is cutting services due to budget shortfalls caused by the influx of migrants in the city by stating that “The dilemma is when you have values on both sides and you have to manage those values. We have a value of being a welcoming, compassionate city.” And there are some cuts to migrant services.
Johnston said, “We’ve asked every agency in the city to take a look at what they could do to make what is about a 15% cut to their budget across the city. And those agencies are all presenting options to us this week. We started the first set of actions this week, which includes reducing the hours in our rec centers, closing rec centers for some days, and will involve closing some of our DMV sites on certain days and weeks. And so, we are having to make some of these hard decisions, and we’ll also have to reduce some of the level and length of services we can provide to migrants. We’ve had more than 40,000 migrants arrive in our city over the last year, more than any other city in America per capita, and we have very successfully integrated them. To do that well just requires resources, and it will be impossible for us to do that at this scale going forward without any federal help.”
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Mayors aren’t elected to be “welcoming.” They are elected to oversee city services for the taxpayers.
Do a California, raise taxes.
40,000 “migrants”
Were there 40,000 job that needed to be filled and now are?
Denver needs 100k+ more mojados.
CO ping
Denver residents can keep their “Value of Being” in mind as their possessions or their lives slip away at the hands of “Influxing Migrants.”
As Bill Murray famously said; “So I’ve got that going for me.”
Translation “I am going to take your money to give to others for my political benefit while lecturing you about morals.”
SOOOOOOOOOO NOW ONE PERSON IS DECIDING “THE VALUES” FOR AN ENTIRE POPULATION OF A MAJOR USA CITY-——DISGUSTING....AND TOTALLY ARROGANT.
DOES DENVER HAVE RECALL CAPABILITIES????
Just giving the people what they voted for.
It’s an invasion, and worse. Maybe God’s judgment on us.
Virtue Grandstanding is backfiring.
LOL!
What happened to them being integral parts of the economy?
> Were there 40,000 job that needed to be filled and now are? <
I think by “successfully integrated”, the mayor means that the 40,000 illegals have all received their free housing and free food vouchers. The paperwork is done.
How to pay for all that free stuff, now and for many years to come? That’s the tricky part.
Absolutely. He likes it so well, let’s double the number. Fire up the busses
And the begging to Fed.gov begins
Where do I get one of those signs?
Is the United States the only country in the world that you don’t need a passport to gain entry?
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