Government at work

By Peter slevin
As the economy sputters and tax revenue plummets, governors and mayors across the United States are lining up to ask President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress for hundreds of billions of dollars to plug holes in their budgets, arguing that services will suffer and joblessness will rise if Washington does not come to the rescue.

In Ohio, which has shed 100,000 jobs in the past year, Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and his budget team spend a lot of time delivering bad news to constituents and plotting ways to wring money from the federal government. He announced $640 million in cuts for the budget year ending June 30, for a total of $1.9 billion since the economic crisis began.

By 4mainstreet
Here again is our Government working for us, Americans are expected to cut wages and benefits, but do you ever hear any Government employs or politician asked to give up any thing. How many CEO's and top management are giving up wages and perks.
The only ones who lose are police and fire, ( done so they get more money out of the tax payer ). Which is more important, Pencil Pushers or Protection.
Here the other day a city said it was going to outsource 911 dispatchers to save money, I my self worked of one of those outsource companies and got payed 5.50 an hour and I later found out that they were getting 30.00 dollars an hour for the service for each employee working, where is the savings. The only thing was no benefits.
How about all that pork and programs that these cities and states are making the tax payers pay for that should be payed for by the people who want them, a good example, training in performing arts, don't you have to pay to get in, all these actors get payed millions, why don't they take their money to support it not the tax payer. There are a lot of programs that we should not be paying for, but the wealthy don't want to support it, so they dump it on the working people to pay for all these programs.