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Originally Posted by Rochard
You know, you can always tell when someone has a beef with the current occupant of the White House. Take out the stupidity and replace it with common sense.
President Obama doesn't decide how many police officers or firemen my hometown hires. They are city employees, not federal employees. Same with teachers, who locally in my area are county employees working for the country school district. So I have no idea where your saying Obama has decided to cut police and fire.
As for our military, I was unaware it was cut. However, it makes perfect sense really - We no longer have troops in Iraq, so I would imagine it would cut back on expenses - A LOT.
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The funny thing is under the Obama administration there are Federal grants available where towns can apply for that will allow them to hire an extra police officer or two based on their need. They are offered in response to towns being hard up for cash since the bottom fell out but still in dire need of police services. The goal is to pay the salary for a year or two while the towns work on fixing their budgets since tax revenues are down so much.