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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Lower the wages by 15% of all government workers from the top to the bottom, elected or appointed, hired, from US President to dog catcher. All of them, including stipend paid board members, teachers, principals and superintendents take away 15% to support the migrants who illegally crossed our border and I bet the entire crises would quickly change, the border closed and migrants repatriated to their homelands.
How would lowering the salaries of a bunch of bureaucrats do anything? They don’t put these laws in place. You could lower their salaries to zero and nothing would change. It puts NO pressure in the real culprits - Congress & state legislatures!
It’s the legislatures both state and federal that pass the numbskull laws!
Vote the ins out!
Term limits for all elected positions from justice of the peace to Congress - both Houses!
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
State legislatures can’t do worse!
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