Nathan Newman on budgets of mass destruction:
In what Mayor Bloomberg himself described as a “doomsday budget”, the budget includes laying off 10,000 city employees, touching almost every city agency including the fire department, which could see up to 40 firehouses shut down.
Yep– even as firehouses are recovering from devastating losses from 911, they will see even more cuts in employee numbers.
Is there any sanity in a “war on terrorism” where those needed in any future terrorist attack are being laid off because the federal government thinks tax cuts for the wealthy are more important than funding the basic infrastructure of response?