All government is local.. even in DC.  Wow, furloughing nearly a million civilian workers when the Feds have all those contracts they could simply end, and antiquated weapons systems they could cancel, or God forbid, undeclared wars against for oil and drugs across the planet they could home from!  But no, threaten the Pentagon and its congressional lackeys and their defense industrial sponsors with a measly 9% cut of planned FUTURE (increased) spending and you get the local Board of Supervisor solution — sorry folks, cut our budget and we’ll lay off the firefighters and emergency staff first.  Not that … Continue reading ..and we won’t put out fires or give CPR either!