This is an old tactic. Lay off people that are needed, stop services that will hit the voters at home. The same thing has gone on here. They close fire stations, lay off police, and paramedics. However The money was still there to build handicapped accessible crosswalks at every intersection. Most of which have no sidewalks leading up to them. If someone in a wheelchair were ever to be able to make their way there (in fair weather possible, in rain unlikely) They would have a crosswalk available to them to cross the street, only to face the next 500 ft. of rolling through wet Georgia clay to the closest bus stop. Miles if they were rolling the way on their own.

Don't even get me started of those nice brass frogs on the park benches.

Please don't be Harrisburg.
Please don't be Harrisburg.
Please don't be Harrisburg.

*rtfa*

Aww Christ.
Guess I'd better make sure my renter's insurance is paid up.

We actually need to close fire stations here in Philly but the fire fighters union scared the shiat out the old people a couple years ago, so instead of having an efficient number of stations, we've now got "rolling closures" because we don't have the money to keep them all open.

Number of fires is down something like 80% from thirty years ago.
Annual fire deaths is in the tens, down from over a hundred.

You see that flash of light in the corner of your eye? That's your career dissipation light. It just went into high gear.