US Cities Are Begging For Help

Shirley Franklin, Mayor of Atlanta, discribes what she sees as the results of not bailing out cities as well as banks. She stresses the need for additional police and infrastructure projects. City revenues are falling faster than the price of oil. Job loses in cities such as Wilmington, Ohio where 3,000 workers are being laid-off in a the population of 12,000 show that this is beyond a crisis.

"There will be fewer people to provide services"
Shirley Franklin Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

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[BoomerNavy70]

Here is the reality of the situation. Atlanta has been one of the most mismanaged cities for years.

Now all of a sudden they are begging for money when they have been incompetent in their spending habits.

[bobbytiger]

And exactly how much of a cut in your big salary did you take to reduce the deficit Mayor Franklin?

The government is not helping me out Mayor Franklin. Quite the opposite. It is mortgaging my future by spending money it does not have.

Your city has a crisis? Well......... boo-frigging-hoo.

Cut services, cut salaries, cut pork, and above all.....cut out the begging for dollars. It's your city. Fix it with what you have. It's what we common folk are forced to do.

[jobrien2001]

This dumb bitch is asking money for roads and bridges and she calls that INVESTMENTS?!!

I thought she would say energy or manufacturing infrastructure.

These are the people in charge of the country. We are so screwed.

[Cindi3847]

Let's take AIG's Martin Sullivan's bonus for 2006 and bailout the auto industry. Sullivan made enough in that one year and if the Government does the right thing and convicts him of the crimes he committed at AIG, he won't need the money in jail.