Reply #13: how about reducing the salaries of all the upper levels of their government?

[Donnachaidh]

The salaries and perks of the head honchos are almost never cut, while the first services to get cut are needed.

My local mental health facility is booked solid till July, with many people needing counseling and help due to stress and longterm unemployment. What do they do? They CUT emergency walk-in care. Now these unemployed folks have only the option of 911 after they have a meltdown - ER charges, and whatever other costs are involved in emergencies.

Pennywise and pound-foolish, as my Nana used to say. Cut the salaries of the upper pencil pushers to provide the NEEDED help for the people suffering most. There should be NO job protection at ANY level when things are bad. The public SERVANTS need to know that they too can *feel the pain.*