Fireman, Police, and Teachers. Repubs think their making such big bucks it is pulling the whole danged economy down.
That seems to be Rmoney's stated solution to fix the economy. But would it? Remember we do not live world by ourselves and each person doing something has an effect on others.
What I am going to be talking about requires some thinking and doing some 'what if' questioning. So repubs you can leave now and keep repeating the mantra you have been instructed to. This goes deeper than your thought processes allow.
Last time I looked at how firing firemen might cause more problems than it solves. Now I will look at what might happen when Police are fired.
It would mean you might have an increase in crime. Fewer Police means longer response times and reduced work quality of work when they arrive since they have other crimes waiting to be investigated too. Remember the criminals will not say, "Oh there are fewer police, I better behave and not bother them as much." No most likely with less Police patroling the bad guys might even increase their efforts knowing it is less likely they will get caught.
Businesses will have to spend more on private security or more expensive gates, fences, stronger doors, or move to areas with less crime where the real estate is more expensive.
Repub reply to little old lady asking why in the world they cut the police force down in a time of increased crime. "Sorry your house got broken into twice this month and you had to buy burgler bars and an expensive security system. We had no idea this would happen when we cut the budget. We just figured the police would work for less and give you the same security. Oh you are on Social Security and Medicare and had to take half of the amount of your medications to pay for the security. We are so sorry, but of course that is not a repub fault, I mean you know we had to tank the economy to cause Obama problems in the election. Thats why. I'm sure you understand it is only until we can get Rmoney elected and can make more cuts. By the way we are thinking of shutting down your entire police department and letting you get together with your neighbors to form a watch and stand your ground group. That will save even more."
Training may be diminished to save money so the new police officiers know less about the law and what they can and can't do.
Police with experience might find better paying jobs in private practice where they earn more. Since starting pay might be reduced it will be harder to get the same quality of education of previous recruits. Fewer people will opt to take a police job as they can get better pay with lots less hassle in private practice.
More people will be injured by the increased crime so more people may need emergency hospital care and miss days of work dealing with the crime problems.
Drugs will be more of a problem and that is violent crime. Prisons will have to have less guards per inmate as the inmate population increases. We may want to look at how third world countries deal with that problem as our reduced prison funding makes our prisons more like their's. You know things like letting drug kingpins have hookers, spouses girlfriends or boyfriends visit them to keep them from busting out. Also we can let the prisoners do more of the work letting the gangs control their own cell blocks. We could save a lot of money that way and make the prisons much more like home to the prisoners so they will want to stay and not break out. I mean they have free rent, three square meals a day (Including all the pink slime they want and bug protein enriched oatmeal every morning.) and they could have friends and family come and visit for days at a time.
Insurance costs will go up as the insurance companies have to pay for more medical problems caused by the increase in crime and more violent crime at that. Property losses will increase too due to the increased crimes. It will take longer to bring the bad guys to trial as the investigators dealing with more cases take longer to finish reports and verify things. Judges will be under pressure not to send more bad guys to already over crouded prisons but there will not be as many alternative options due to budget cuts. Maybe they will reduce sentences or give more probabtion.
Since their budget is reduced many police departments will have to cut maintance so there may be even fewer police cars and they will break down more. ("What do you mean you had to stop chasing the bank robber because your engine overheating light kept blinking. I told you last month that is just a short in the wiring and putting a piece of duct tape over the dash light will fix the problem until we can get new cars.")
All of this budget cutting will mean less people paying taxes and moving to where jobs are so repubs will have to make more cuts soon too.
Since the economy keeps shrinking the companies will have less money to pay congress under the table but that is okay, they can find new lawmakers willing to work for less and use the media to replace the old more expensive ones.
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