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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Port Authority posted its latest round of bus route cuts Friday evening and there are more than two dozen of them.
As of March 27, a total of 29 bus routes will be eliminated and service on many other routes will be reduced.
It’s a 15 percent reduction in service that the Port Authority says is necessary despite $45 million in emergency funding handed out last month.
So, will your bus route be affected? The 9 Perry Highway, the 42 Mount Lebanon and the 70 Monroeville Shopper are just some of those being eliminated.
Check out the complete list of bus route cuts and reductions:
Port Authority: March 27 Service Changes
PortAuthority.org
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When Republicans attack public workers, they often take care to exempt cops and firefighters, because they are culturally sympathetic figures, and muddle the message that government workers are parasites who are destroying the economic conditions of ordinary Americans.
But today Mitt Romney got a good deal more specific, claiming we do not need to hire more cops or firefighters specifically, which would, he said, cut against the interests of the American people. He also specifically named teachers.
Romney made the comments in response to Obama’s presser today, at which the president claimed the “private sector is doing fine.” Per CNN:
Romney said of Obama, “he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
It’s hard to argue that the message from Wisconsin was that Americans don’t think we should hire more firefighters and cops. They were exempted from Scott Walker’s crackdown on public employee bargaining rights, which enabled him to “divide and conquer” labor.
But beyond that, this could resonate in the presidential race: It will allow the White House to reframe the debate over public sector workers and job creation on more favorable terms.
One of the components of the American Jobs Act that Obama continues to demand that Republicans pass would invest $35 billion in federal funds to keep cops, firefighters, and teachers on the job. Republicans, Romney included, oppose this plan. Central to their argument against this type of investment is to keep the focus on public sector workers as a class, arguing that they are bilking the taxpayer and are to blame for the economic plight of struggling Americans. As Romney recently put it: “We have 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let’s send them home and put you back to work.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitt-romney-we-dont-need-more-cops-firefighters-or-teachers/2012/06/08/gJQAvOgDOV_blog.html
California Cuts State Employee's Wages To Minimum Wage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mup2Zlba02E
The precipitous drop in state and local revenues caused by the Great Recession, combined with budget cuts pushed by austerity-minded politicians, has led to static or slowly dropping staffing levels across the country. Budget troubles have beset fire departments from Minneapolis to Irving, Texas, Detroit, New London, Conn., Hialeah, Fla., and Kansas City, Mo. Proposed firefighter cuts in Chambersburg, Pa., were only stopped after the community was awarded a federal grant.
In Los Angeles, the fire department's budget for the 2011-2012 year was $472 million, down from $561 million two years before. Last year the city council voted to leave 318 firefighting positions unfilled. It now takes first responders an average 12 extra seconds to respond to medical emergencies, according to a city audit.
In Texas, budget cuts pushed through by Gov. Rick Perry (R) forced volunteer firefighters, who were battling raging wildfires in 2011, to buy their own gear and even gas for the fire trucks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/fire-department-cuts-a-thousand-cuts_n_1659671.html?utm_hp_ref=a-thousand-cuts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/14/larger-class-size-a-thousand-cuts_n_1659591.html?utm_hp_ref=a-thousand-cuts
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/destructive-austerity-usa/
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