I halfway agree with you. I spent the Sullivan years SMH at the fact we had little white lights all over government buildings all winter, and flowers downtown all summer, both tended by municipal workers, but should those lights be vandalized or those flowers set on fire there were no police or firefighters left to respond because of BS cuts.

Yes there is room to cut, but it's not from line-level services, it's at the top in the Administration. The one place no politician will ever bother to look because it makes their life harder (be it mayor, governor, or legislature).