Cuts in programs, what ones have you heard may happen in your area?

All I see so far are school programs and I haven't even seen those first hand. The H&W offices have changed. Other offices answer for them and so forth. Different when you go in too. Our city food store has closed it open door policy. They used to let you come in and get bread and toiletry items but they don't anymore. I don't know about the senior centers. We have pretty good programs here.

My area is cutting transportation for the elderly and reduced bus routes. There are less buses running, so not everyone can get on the bus, which means its hard to take the bus to a job. Now when the bus is full it doesn't stop unless somebody wants to get off. Its really frustrating. The high price of gas is the reason more are taking the bus just wish the city would increase the number of buses.

Semcac (? sp) might have to cut the dinners for the elderly at the senior towers building here in town too..that is the only hot meal some of them get and it's a well rounded very nourshing meal...some it's the only real meal they eat each day. I do hope that they can continue to give them these lunches! So many would be stuck either not having anything at all or very little, maybe just snacks!

All those "little" things is what they cut. For heaven sake, let's not cut any politician or government person's expense reports! Of course, let's not have them pay for their own car and gas. This is what makes me so mad. Our tax dollars pays for these people's cars, gas, maintenance etc. Yet we pay for our own. Never is there a "spending cut" to their expense reports that we have to foot the bill for. They vote themselves a pay increase! However close..these unions where we tax payers pay for their retirement and health insurance, when most of us don't even have a retirement plan from our jobs nor can afford health insurance for ourselves, but these union people expect us to continue paying for theirs. Ok, off topic. I just get tired of always being among the ones that get the spending cuts and the tax increases while those that are making those spending cuts and tax increases never vote for anything that effects them! Again, sorry...off topic. We dont' even have a food bank in this area....have to drive a ways to get to one and then since you are not in "their" city, you are last in line.

Those are the cuts that bother me here too. Education cuts bother me but the cuts on the needy are the worst. I hate what the government have laid on our elderlys shoulders. It is too much.