What originally caught my eye regarding that situation last February was my noticing in an article on Bloomberg's website  that  "Police and firefighting salaries, pension and overtime consumes $63.1 million, or about 74 percent of the city's $85 million general fund budget. The city has slashed $13 million in spending since December 2006, firing 47 workers."
(here's a link to my original post: http://activerain.com/blogsview/398862/California-City-Moves-Closer )

It boggles my mind that such services can consume SO MUCH of a city's operating budget. 

It appears, apparently, that Vallejo's sacred cows are unwilling to compromise. Here's the latest from Bloomberg.com: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atl3yFmV508A&refer=news

Please excuse my apparent contempt for sacred cows, but when a community's solvency is at stake, and in Vallejo apparently since 1996, where "...there are currently 1,214 ``real estate owned'' homes, (and) another 1,014 properties...in the foreclosure process, and 464 houses ...scheduled to be auctioned...." I think it's safe to say that things need a little change.

People are loosing their security, their jobs, their homes, their sanity, and who knows what all else.

Dire situations require dire appropriateness.