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Hiring more police officers won't "save" city money

Austin Metablog  Mon, 08/22/2011 - 3:00pm

City's claim that hiring more police officers would "save" money is utterly bogus (via Grits for Breakfast)



 

No, the Horse Ain't Dead

M1EK  Mon, 01/18/2010 - 8:21am

A lot of people wonder why I keep talking about the Red Line, seeing as how any month now it'll finally open - it can't actually be stopped at this point.

The dead horse analogy is repeatedly invoked, sometimes by people on 'my' side; often by gladhanders like JMVC on the other side.

Check out this post on Capital Metro's blog, especially this comment: