Re “Just how bad are San Diego’s budget problems? City may dip into reserves for first time in years” (May 15): Someone needs to inform the San Diego City Council and mayor that a budget is a wish list. We citizens have to live within our means, the city needs to do the same.
In 2008, with the housing crash and the downturn of the construction industry, I was a partner in a construction-related firm. We made the decision to lay off several employees and have a 10% cut across the board in salaries. The city of San Diego needs to trim the fat off its bloated bureaucracy.
The citizens of this once-great city need to be ashamed of themselves for not fully reading and understanding the trash Proposition B. Hopefully the brave and generous five citizens who filed the lawsuit against the city seeking to throw out the proposition on all of our behalf will prevail against our inept and dishonest city government.
— Steven Quinn, North Park
