Our city here in Mobile was in deep doo doo a few years back but instead of buying new police cars and giving out raises and shit like that they kept old equipment and tightened their belts , the roads are a bit rough, the garbage does get picked up. It has been a struggle but we worked through it. I read in places where the union bosses up there think the Gov is trying to bust the unions is the reason they went belly up but mismanagement of funds and bad planning on the part of the mayors office and given the fact that the mayor and his croonies are all under indictment fer stuff is it no wonder they are in a mess?