"(The Library’s 2020 budget was $81 million; for comparison, the Seattle Police budget in 2020 was $409 million.)" (Where's a local Billionaire [or two] when ya need one?)
Perhaps we might transfer say, ten or fifteen million to the Library in exchange for I dunno -- what could a Library do* that our po-po might pass over? Let us ease their burden a bit...
*They say there's lots of Geniuses
and Billionaires around here. Per-
haps, before we eat them [the
latter] we might see what we
[they] might come up with?
"(The Library’s 2020 budget was $81 million; for comparison, the Seattle Police budget in 2020 was $409 million.)" (Where's a local Billionaire [or two] when ya need one?)
Perhaps we might transfer say, ten or fifteen million to the Library in exchange for I dunno -- what could a Library do* that our po-po might pass over? Let us ease their burden a bit...
*They say there's lots of Geniuses
and Billionaires around here. Per-
haps, before we eat them [the
latter] we might see what we
[they] might come up with?
When you hear, "Throw the book at them"
it's a cop, since the libraries are broke!