The Government Gotcha Game: Cut Essential Services!

Have you ever noticed that when government wants to convince you that they need more money they ALWAYS cut essential services? You know how it's done. In Virginia they closed DMV offices and rest stops on the highway. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood continued to roll in state dough and government paper pushers continued to kill trees.

But in Camden, NJ government is willing to sacrifice lives of their citizens in the gotcha game. Taxpayers should be outraged! And then they should push for the legislation Robert Knight suggests below.
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Putting a gun to the public's head
Fighting fiscal restraint by cutting cops will kill Camden
The Washington Times
6:30 p.m., Friday, December 3, 2010, print December 6, 2010
By Robert Knight

Government's most essential function is to protect citizens. All other services are secondary.
Camden, N.J., is one of the most dangerous cities in the nation, according to FBI statistics analyzed by CQ Press. In fact, Camden was rated the "most dangerous city in America" in 2003, 2004 and 2008, just missing the top spot in 2009. (St. Louis edged it out).
Camden has neighborhoods that aren't safe in broad daylight, much less at night.

So what did the city fathers of Camden do when faced with a $25.5 million budget deficit? They voted Thursday to lay off 200 police and firefighters along with 200 other city workers.