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Chula Vista is what the rest of California will look like--bare, broke and minimal services. They have overspent, given in to the special interests and the unions.
"I'm asking him which of the long list of cuts to city services actually happened.
Most of them did, it turns out.
One by one, I tick off the services that the city no longer provides, or offers at far lower levels than it once did: Graffiti abatement ("One guy from the sewage department does that now, one day a week, but we're getting real far behind"); library hours ("there will be longer hours of non-operation"); recreation centers, baby and toddler story times at the library, support of local parks and nature centers, the list goes on.
Around us, the gorgeous, modern civic center, built in 2002 amidst the city's boom, is eerily quiet. Another 88 city employees were laid off in Chula Vista last month. That brings the total number of city layoffs since 2007 to 277.
That's layoffs. Not unfilled vacancies that were left open. Not retirements or kooky accounting. Layoffs.
The staff reductions, and the resulting massive drawback in services, are pretty extraordinary."
Essential and non essential services are gone from Chula Vista--this is going to happen to greats cities like San Fran and LA, and wonderful small cities like Taft, Clovis and Paso Robles.
Out of control government is being reeled in thanks to running out of tax dollars from honest people. That well is dry. Bankruptcy is next.
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"I'm asking him which of the long list of cuts to city services actually happened.
Most of them did, it turns out.
One by one, I tick off the services that the city no longer provides, or offers at far lower levels than it once did: Graffiti abatement ("One guy from the sewage department does that now, one day a week, but we're getting real far behind"); library hours ("there will be longer hours of non-operation"); recreation centers, baby and toddler story times at the library, support of local parks and nature centers, the list goes on.
Around us, the gorgeous, modern civic center, built in 2002 amidst the city's boom, is eerily quiet. Another 88 city employees were laid off in Chula Vista last month. That brings the total number of city layoffs since 2007 to 277.
That's layoffs. Not unfilled vacancies that were left open. Not retirements or kooky accounting. Layoffs.
The staff reductions, and the resulting massive drawback in services, are pretty extraordinary."
Essential and non essential services are gone from Chula Vista--this is going to happen to greats cities like San Fran and LA, and wonderful small cities like Taft, Clovis and Paso Robles.
Out of control government is being reeled in thanks to running out of tax dollars from honest people. That well is dry. Bankruptcy is next.
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