what right-wing america looks like

joe · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:14 am

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473

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The hometown of Focus on the Family, The Springs is where the Taxpayer Bill of Rights originated. TABOR prevents the state legislature from ever raising taxes, and forces massive spending cuts during times of recession. And now, as the Denver Post reports, the city- which has legislated much of the anti-tax fervor into municipal ordinance - has become a shining example of what happens to a community when conservatives' anti-tax policies are distilled into their most pure form:

COLORADO SPRINGS - This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops - dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.
Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.

Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.

City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won't pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.

Rat-morningstar · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:03 am

what

the

fuck

joe · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:30 am

palin/beck '12

mad max/the road '16

OfLoathing · **Joined:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:38 pm **Posts:** 240

joe wrote:

palin/beck '12

mad max/the road '16

LOL

I'm amazed by the number of people that think that without taxes, Non-profit organizations could effectively fund raise to keep all of the services people enjoy open with a stable budget.

There's a big problem with that business model: when the economy gets bad, as it always will spike into recessions in an unregulated economy, the grants dry up.

I work as an administrator for a Museum and the consensus is clear between Museums and other similar institutions: the funding just isn't there. If every Museum got every dollar that was being offered, half of them would still have to close some doors. And many have.

The Monterey Maritime Museum is shutting it's doors for a couple years, the Oakland Museum is closed, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History no longer has any paid staff and can no longer properly care for it's collections and so may be forced to close, and nearly every Museum nearby is reducing staff and services. Except for ours, that got a bridge grant from HP and so was able to go from one staff member up to the current five for the next year or two, which is still half the staff we need to effectively fund raise and manage operations.

The idea that charitable spending will ever be able to satiate the demand for all of the non-market goods that the free market cannot adequately charge for is complete and total fucking nonsense. Go tell your friends and neighbors.

U-God · **Posted:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:45 pm

joe wrote:

mad max/the road '16

i just watched the road a couple weeks ago. it was OK. stupid ending.

neelpos · **Posted:** Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:27 pm

Yeah I heard the movie was pretty sub par
the book was awesome though

Archer007 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:19 pm

This is beyond dumb.

Yatta! · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:18 am **Posts:** 903

Hahahahaha I love fiscal conservatives (just not when they're not in charge of the nation/my state/my county/my town)

Also, isn't the salt lake metropolitan area gonna have some serious issues in the near future due to little government planning? That's what I've heard, at least. Massive water mismanagement and the likes.

joe · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:47 am

update: the mayor got pissed and complained about the article and said people come to live there specifically because of the "limited government" values

so the writer did some research: more than one third of the people who live in colorado springs are employed by defense industry contractors, paid for by "big government." if you add in all the normal local government employees, that's about half the population employed by the government, which is one of the highest proportions in the country.

so much for "limited government"

Cc_Hairy · **Joined:** Sun May 18, 2003 5:50 pm **Posts:** 11743

LIES CNN money magazine rated it No1 City to live in on 2006

stickbeast · **Joined:** Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:31 pm **Posts:** 623

joe wrote:

palin/beck '12

mad max/the road '16

hahahaha. Why wouldn't Mad Max pick the Lone Wanderer as a running mate? He has much more XP.

Mad_Dugan · **Posted:** Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:54 pm

Everyone knows that Master would be his running mate. (Master/Blaster)

Rat-morningstar · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:30 am

goats / eman '12

Dr.Boo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:21 am

Right-wingers hope that without taxes, people are gonna invest themselves in public service?

NEWSFLASH! Humans are usually greedy and will NOT spend money on community service.

Yatta! · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:18 am **Posts:** 903

Dr.Boo wrote:

Right-wingers hope that without taxes, people are gonna invest themselves in public service?

NEWSFLASH! Humans are usually greedy and will NOT spend money on community service.

Not really. They believe JE-SUS will magically manifest at the local food bank to supply and give out food to the undernourished.

(And the sad thing is, for some wingnuts, that's what they actually believe)

Edit: "In Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade"

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