" why would our public safety depts get cut first. those should be the last ones touched!!! the board of sups should look at other depts first. saw ads on tv over the weekend for human services dept. if times are tough, shouldn't that stuff get cut first? stand behing our deputies and firefighters!! "

" KCSO REALLY WARRANTS THAT MUCH FUNDING? GEEZ MAYBE THEY CAN GET MORE PEOPLE A\ON DUTY AT NIGHT AND BE ABLE TO ANSWER CALLS FOR SERVICE MORE EFFICIENTLY. SOME OF THERE OFFICERS IN THE CORCORAN AREA ARE VERY EXPLOSIVE AND UNPROFESSIONAL, TOWARD CITIZENS. "

" I hope the board of sups tries to find cuts somewhere else. public safety and fire are important. cut back some of those Kings Community Action dollars and welfare programs. "

" Let's see what dumb things the county spends its money on that it should not be doing. Let me give you an example. When former school teacher Patsy Willis forgets to take her medicine for Tourette's Syndrome and says a swear word, her paranoid mother Margaret Feaver calls the police to put Patsy in lock-down. The police take her to a psychologist who is fearful of being sued if she does not "commit" Patsy into lockdown. Patsy has never harmed anyone or commited a crime to my knowledge, but saying a swearword in the Feaver home is a police offense. The last time this happened, instead of the policeman telling Patsy to take her medicine and waiting 20 minutes to see if she said another swear word, she was put into lockdown in Fresno at Kings County expense, as far as I know. A year later, Patsy was still there; but no one know where exactly since that was a State secret. I went to two lawyers asking about getting her out and they said that was hopeless. So the California taxpayers paid millions of dollars in medical expenses for Patsy inlockdown overa year. "

" To WHAT; You probably expected them to do something for you they couldn't do or you got arrested or you created your own drama. I can tell by your yelling. Enough with you.

Public safety is being cut? Are you kidding me? I thought the BOS was public safety conscious. Who is Deb West? This article would be more credible if if Larry Spikes was interviewed. "

" our county is growing and our sheriff and fire calls are growing too! BOS...cut something other than our safety depts. kc citizens deserve safe neighborhoods from crime and fires. what are they thinking? "

" ...Come on Sentinel, do your job and report rather than play drive by media. Ask the hard questions...WHY does the county choose to cut emergency services first? And do not accept the old line of its "discretionary funding." Hard facts.....why cut there instead of welfafre? What are the ramifications of cutting social services first....Explain...I mean REPORT the facts. Is that too hard to do, to actually BE a reporter? "

" Oracle, the real "Hard Question" for this Board of Supervisors is why when our county is solving problems for the rest of the state we cannot solve our own? Why is it that a county that allows in millions of tons of toxic waste from all over North America to be buried in it cannot properly fund its public safety programs? Chemical Waste Management makes billions of dollars annually yet gives so little to our county for the "privilege" of disposing of it here, that we cannot keep all our fire stations open. These are the same fire stations that will need to respond if one of the trucks carrying this poison wrecks or catches fire. What about the sewage sludge we are "processing" out at Westlake Farms? Hundreds of trucks loaded with human waste from southern California are driven here weekly. There cargo to be turned into compost. This solves a major problem for the Orange County Sanitation District yet we cannot properly fund our own Sheriff Department. Special deals for special interests, sounds like business as usual in Kings County. It is time these outfits paid their fair share. "

" TO THE ORACLE: Emergency and welfare and other critical services are cut for a reason explained in Newsweek March (18?), 2007 issue. Unless 20% of the Baby Boomers die by 2010, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid will all go bankrupt. So the elderly are poisoned in restaurants or neglected in critical care situations (triaged for death) or given prescription medicines that are slow poisons for a lot of people. Take a statin cholesterol lowering drug to get your cholesterol below 200 like the Federal government says it should be so you will not have enough cholesterol to patch cracked blood vessels and you bleed to death from a stroke according to Dr. Wm.Douglass II newsletters. Take a statin drug without 50 mg daily of Coenzyme-Q-10 so you have a heart attack or get cancer from depleted Co-Q-10 in the body caused by the statin drugs that should have been taken off the market, Dr. Julian Whitaker says in his newsletters. 300,000 people a year die from the adverse effects of presciption medicines Dr. Whitaker says. Or get meds from Red China like tainted heparin to kill people in hospitals. You get the picture? "