What a horrible economy in which we live.
The library hours have been slashed.
The library is now closed on Sunday and Monday.
Tuesday and Thursday the Library does not open up until 12:30 pm.
If you are homeless and jobless, when the Sunday Newspaper comes out. Those with homes and jobs can start applying for the positions all day on Sunday and Monday. Those who are LESS fortunate can not start the application process until 12:30 pm on Tuesday. When I arrived at the library today, there were dozens of homeless waiting to use the Internet/Word Processing Center. The problem is not that the homeless/jobless do not want to work. The truth is WE do. The problem is that most of the jobs have been filled on Monday before WE even get here on Tuesday. You have to have a reservation to use the terminals. You are only allowed to have two one hour reservations per day. Most of the jobless/homeless leave frustrated and return to the streets. Tomorrow, they will start the process all over again.
My question is that with all the excess government spending including the entire military budget (sorry for being redundant), did we NEED to cut the hours at the public librarys?
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