Detroit budget proposal would cut $52 million from police, fire

[Scottathew]

Emergency responders will also have to be cut.

However, they need to keep in mind that government has some CORE services it provides, that being police, fire, water, and waste.

Other areas should be cut a lot harder [[percentage-wise) than the core services.

[antongast]

This board is pretty funny sometimes. Everyone clamors for "necessary" spending cuts, talks about how they won't be painful at all and in fact they'll magically cause sunshine and roses and long-term fiscal sustainability to sprout all over the city! Then the actual list of spending cuts comes out, and everybody shits a brick. "What? You mean core services are being cut? I just meant we should cut buses for poor people and lay off a bunch of 'administrators' whose jobs must not be important because I don't intuitively understand what they do!"