Two Views On The L.A. City Budget
The
following two articles provide differing views on the Los Angeles city
budget.
Dogs, Cats, Gang-bangers — and the City Hall Follies
By Ron Kaye
This is what we’ve come to: Four million people provide an average of
$1,700 each to City Hall for police, fire, paved streets and sidewalks,
parks and libraries and other basic services but all they care about is
dogs, cats and gang-bangers.
Welcome to the City Hall Follies — a burlesque that lasted 11 hours on
Monday and amounted to petty bickering and maneuvering to add another
$5 in fines for illegal parking so they can provide more jobs to
hoodlums and keep a closed-to-the-public warehouse with 167 unwanted
pets functioning.
Ron Kaye and Gary Toebben
May 19, 2010