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Wow, an article that I'm actually relevantly tied to!
Seeing as how I live in Colorado Springs, I actually saw this first hand and was really dissapointed with the budget cuts and the ballot issues that people voted against simply because it might mean giving an extra 12 cents a month to that horrible, evil government. My girlfriend works at the largest hospital here in the Springs, and despite being self-sufficient, the city and the newspapers were publishing articles of every salary of every employee at the hospital in an effort to 'shame' people into saying they were overpaid and somehow getting more money out of it for city budgets. The average police response time to a 911 call here was 14 minutes, and it's now jumped to over 20 minutes. A lot changes in a burglary situation between when I call and what is happening twenty minutes later.
Lights are indeed being turned off, they're taking trash cans away.. just about everything is being reduced or cut completely because people are so incensed by the idea that they should actually have to pay the city for the services they use.. OH THE INJUSTICE!!
They don't plow the streets anymore, and so if there's more than five or six inches of snow I end up being forced to work from home, the list goes on and on. But really, city services are the least of my concerns, living in a city with the home base of Focus on the Family and surrounded by the Air Force Academy on one side and an Army base on the other.
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