First thing the government should do during a recession.

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Every few years, governments of every level have "budget emergencies". They usually happen when the elected officials don't come up with a budget before the next fiscal year begins. When these "emergencies" occur, the governments go down to "essential workers" only, until the budget is settled and the money flows again. This recession is bringing about tight budgets, budget holes and basically insolvency of governments. Cities and Counties are looking to State government to bail them out. States are turning to the Federal government for a trillion or so each. The problem is, the federal coffers are just as empty as the state and local ones. So, what all the levels of government need to do is to start cutting back to "essential workers only". Now, the dishonest, unethical and corrupt local governments always seem to think that the first thing that will be cut is fire/police and other emergency services. Of course, that isn't true, but it does have an alarmist effect that telling the filers for the coroners office that their services are no longer needed and the coroner and medical examiners can do their own filing for a while. Every city, county and state already know who the "non essential" workers are, they probably haven't changed much since the last "budget emergency". So instead of forming a lip lock to the welfare teet, its time our elected officials realize that they have no inherent right to their overbloated, wasteful and unethical budgets. Of course, it would take honesty and leadership from them... so I'm not holding my breath.