Balance The Budget By Firing All Police And Firemen?

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473
Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many

Most (?all?) cities, states and the federal government are having budget problems. Only the federal government has the luxury of counterfeiting money. And they are printing money like it will soon be worthless. The rest of the cities and states are reduced to acting like lower class criminals, meaning they can only steal the money from the citizens. Since the sleazy elected officials don't want to hurt their own or their staff's salary, they are running the protection racket on the citizens. How many critical civil servants (police, firemen, ...) can be fired before the populace agrees to cough up additional funding. If that doesn't work, they can always start releasing criminals from jails.

But there is no need to worry about the politicians and their staff and the various other useless cubical workers not getting what they deserve. They will continue to get paid 3 to 4 times what workers in the private sector get paid for doing the same thing.