measuring keeps calling deeper into debt. if you don t keep falling soon you ll have to get one of these drastic cuts and all of america will be like prichert, alabama. this woman s angry because her husband worked for the city of prichert, alabama for 23 years and held up his end of the bargain, but the city hasn t sent him a pension check for more than a year and the city council says we don t have the money. in 2003, an accountant warned the town, you will run out of money by 2009. the politicians then did nothing. and as they admit today never changed. john: right on schedule in 2009 the town went broke and the politicians declared bankruptcy and stopped sending pension checks to retired city
public library for 32 years, now at age 77 she had to start a new career as a school teacher. the city knew it was going to happen and they could have done something about. john: something like cutting back on frivolous spending and instead gave their website a makeover. the mayor of the town. 97,000 a year. so he makes $97,000 a year why can t he pay us. john: and the city has two or three judges, don t need, but one and they ve got two lawyers. plus, the public golf course has been a joke as long as i can remember. john: a golf course? yes, pretty mu prichert runs on though it loses money, costs the taxpayers tens of thousands every year and owns several barely used office buildings and runs an office of economic development and the housing authority. they employ 40 public
measuring keeps calling deeper into debt. if you don t keep falling soon you ll have to get one of these drastic cuts and all of america will be like prichert, alabama. this woman s angry because her husband worked for the city of prichert, alabama for 23 years and held up his end of the bargain, but the city hasn t sent him a pension check for more than a year and the city council says we don t have the money. in 2003, an accountant warned the town, you will run out of money by 2009. the politicians then did nothing. and as they admit today never changed. john: right on schedule in 2009 the town went broke and the politicians declared bankruptcy and stopped sending pension checks to retired city
public library for 32 years, now at age 77 she had to start a new career as a school teacher. the city knew it was going to happen and they could have done something about. john: something like cutting back on frivolous spending and instead gave their website a makeover. the mayor of the town. 97,000 a year. so he makes $97,000 a year why can t he pay us. john: and the city has two or three judges, don t need, but one and they ve got two lawyers. plus, the public golf course has been a joke as long as i can remember. john: a golf course? yes, pretty mu prichert runs on though it loses money, costs the taxpayers tens of thousands every year and owns several barely used office buildings and runs an office of economic development and the housing authority. they employ 40 public government workers.
measuring keeps calling deeper into debt. if you don t keep falling soon you ll have to get one of these drastic cuts and all of america will be like prichert, alabama. this woman s angry because her husband worked for the city of prichert, alabama for 23 years and held up his end of the bargain, but the city hasn t sent him a pension check for more than a year and the city council says we don t have the money. in 2003, an accountant warned the town, you will run out of money by 2009. the politicians then did nothing. and as they admit today never changed. john: right on schedule in 2009 the town went broke and the politicians declared bankruptcy and stopped sending pension checks to retired city