More on the Budget Crisis

The Republic has a 9 page commentacular on Mesa's budget woes following today's story that 134 jobs must be cut. That is a little misleading because a large portion of these jobs are currently unfilled, but there are a portion of them that have real people in them. I know that this impacts people, but budget shortfalls impact "real people" every day. Real businesses have to do cutbacks and layoffs, why should the public sector be immune?

Layoff suck, but they are part of this shrinking economy. We need to start thinking about ways to keep the city afloat in the future. Some of the commenters seem to get it and others do not. As long as people keep rejecting the taxes, we are going to have to find other ways to pay for the things we need. Some of the people are still complaining about light rail and Waveyard, both of which could help build the economy for the future. Alas, these folks still can't get past them and keep doing the doom and gloom routine. Wake up people, taxes are not going to work right now. You aren't going to see people paying $3 for gas and shrinking housing prices lining up to pay more taxes. We need to find something that will work.