And just a little food for thought here.

Instead of hearing things like, "they want to cut your services, your entitlements, your safety, your freedoms, and we need you to start kicking in your fair share". How about some truthfull statements from each side, like, "you gave us piles of money over the decades, we mismanaged it, pissed it away, used it for our own power base, and now we're broke."

Been there, done that, the washing machine ate the T-shirt