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we talk a lot about budget battles on the show whether it's in wisconsin in washington
all across the country
but what you know this isn't just about facts and figures
real numbers have real consequences sometimes that if teacher gets paid five thousand dollars
less per year as happened the in wisconsin
and they can afford to take their kids on vacation
but sometimes it's even worse
some of our car spending cuts of the social tree they've cut for the court
of what our government is supposed to provide
remember the government's core mission to protect its citizens
everyone can agree that the cerveza liberals alike
for example govern provides for a national defense to protect citizens from threats abroad
government provides for police to protect people from threats of violence at all
it provides our firefighters to protect citizens from disaster
allies afire style interest-sensitive individual one
this fire spread and your neighbors batter wired to take on the whole block or the old
days the hold steady
and then there's the f_d_a_ and the e_p_a_ that they sure your food and water don't kill
you
nscc to make sure that the bag bankers don't drive you
this all to protect the citizens
but it was supposed to protect you from fort invaders on local muggers
and poisoning your food or in your water or your air
that's job one
soaking government too large of course they can't
but today also be too small
also of course
but republican in the government's almost always blow useless and freedom restricted
but that's honestly start but there's a reason why they do that
just yesterday
house speaker john bainer called cutting government a moral responsibility
or moral responsibility to address the problems that we face
an average working two gether to cut spending
and a rating of a
now why they want to cut government so bad
sometimes it's because we have budget problems everybody gets at but other times into the
campaign contributor doesn't want cops on wall street
or one slash deregulation of the e_p_a_ so they can pull a lot more to make an extra
bach
as sometimes just because they're all fashion greed
and they want to pay a little less taxes no matter how much money they make
now ironically republics what this on its head
has said that his chemo rope
not to cut government services
but u_s_c_ was really a moral
in new jersey republican chris christie
made the so-called tough choice to cut funding for police
in the crime city of ridden city of camden
of course he did that rather than take statements accelerate
i wanna see the results as a result
candle a top forty
six percent of their police force
that's a hundred sixty-seven cops
they also laid off sixty firefighters
at the end of last month the result
the cherry hill currier posts
reports a number of shootings
has doubled over the last year
dull bold
and other violent crimes have also gone up
while local camerawoman said quote
people already getting jumped left or right
this criminals know they can get away with it
across the river in philadelphia the consequence of budget cuts might be having even more dire
consequences
a fire broke out last week at a home in north eastern section of the city
because his fire station is aged sixty one just over a mile away
but engine sixty one was close on tuesday
it's what they call ground a and it was on the cut costs
so the nearest fire station was able to respond to the call
that made the call went to any engine fifty-one
which is almost two miles away
that are lined up by the admissions that doesn't make much of a difference
except in cases of fires were makes accused difference
the fire trucks didn't get there in time
and two little kids a seven year old and a nine-year-old were killed in the fire
now that the budget cuts contribute to their deaths
resort firefighter mike scene of the philadelphia firefighters union set
webapp engine sixty one being brown dot that company was a service
they would've made a difference he doesn't know but nobody can answer that he said because
we don't have a crystal ball
what we can say yes
maybe if they were there
they would have had a shot
maybe that kids
what i had a shot
cutting spending definitely has a moral component
just not sure if the kind of john bears talking about
annexes fleming some republicans look filipino is clearly a democratic city
by spending cuts do trickle down
when the federal government and then the state government keeping away money from your budget
at some point you run out of money for a bridal
vital services cutting isn't always answer
but when you get when you cut the bone
iraq risking the lives of the citizens
maybe just me
is somebody that other side of the equation
they say we need to raise revenue so that we can at least provide for the core mission
of our government
that's protecting our citizens