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Cutting Budgets, Scaring People

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

After a week away, I returned and did something I probably won't do again. I read every day of the newspaper that was published while I was gone.The news of the day, or week for that matter, is local governments setting budgets. Every city, county, village, is reeling with lower property values. Budget cuts in Miami-Dade County are to be $444 million. The issue brings out the same tired debate: How do we keep doing the same thing with less money? How do we fund basic services (police, fire, trash pickup, libraries, etc...) and social services, and all the pet projects, capital projects, and keep paying salaries?We can't. Everyone knows that, no one wants to discuss it.In the criminal justice arena, the debate is simple: the minute governments start talking about budget cuts, do everything to scare the public into thinking that their "public safety" will be compromised...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on September 20, 2009 (boomark / email).