So when I walked away from this thread it was about Colorado Springs asinine decision to vote down a necessary increase in municipal funding and now that I'm back I really have no idea what it's about.
Interesting spin as of late, here in the Springs. Because the city chose to cut police, fire, hospital, and street lights (in addition to $100 million in employee benefits and more than 1000 city employees), conservatives are calling it 'punitive' in an effort by the liberals to 'punish' the good people of Colorado Springs for voting down a liberal 'social agenda' and 'unfair taxation.'
It's really irritating, because they've managed to take a realistic result of what happens when you have huge deficits in a city's budget (cutting essential services) and turned it into a talking point about how the liberals are punishing us for not voting for their socialistic tax hikes.
I had a coworker tell me that them cutting street lights was because it was a 'high visibility' way to punish the people who didn't vote for tax increases.
P.S. Charlatan - not all of us.
