They have few services left because all the budget goes to salaries and pensions. Half the fire trucks and ambulances can’t run, the cops hardly go out unless it sounds really bad and then a 911 call can take an hour.
They can’t fix streets, can’t light the street lamps, the vast majority of parks are closed and have been since about 2008. Maybe they to recall some of those ex-cops and ex-park employees to come and work for those pensions if they are still abled.
The rest, in lieu of losing a portion of their pension, can take a free house of their choosing, they have about 75,000 abandoned properties, after all. Can’t afford to tear them down.
“Maybe they to recall some of those ex-cops and ex-park employees to come and work for those pensions if they are still abled.”
Here’s the interesting thing. I’ve known several former public “servants” who have been retied and collecting significant checks for longer than they worked. I’ve never seen a group less interested in actually doing anything productive; rather they only pursue their own pleasure. I cautioned one that Connecticut was on the verge of bankruptcy and perhaps he should get a job. (He’s never saved even a modest amount, always having spent his stipend to the max. I suspect, because he expects to get it for the rest of his life, so why bother leaving any to the family? Seriously.) He was incensed that he should have to work. He’d already put in his twenty and the rest was for him. I’ve worked 36 years and I’d go to work tomorrow if a job was offered. (I was laid off in 2011; thank you Obama.)