I need us to have a smart conversation for a few minutes, okay?

Because I want us to talk about something that I think is probably the single most

underrated issue in all of civil rights right now. It's budgets. Yes, I said

budgets. Don't swipe away. Don't click away. I need us to talk about budgets.

There's a reason that the civil rights icons like Dr Martin Luther King and so many others

referred to budgets as moral documents.

Because for better or for worse, they reflect our values and principles. You know who and what a city, a county, a state, a country,

you know what they stand for, you know what their values are by looking at their budgets. It's a moral

document. Now I know some of you will hear the word budget and you want to shut me off immediately. I need you to tune in

Bear with me because the coming debates over how states and cities and jurisdictions choose to allocate their limited resources,

these debates are more important now than they've ever been before. The coronavirus pandemic is leading to budget

shortfalls all over the country. Every jurisdiction in America is facing a major budget shortfall.

I'm talking about your hometown, your city, your county, your state.

And while people are hurting, budgets to help those people are being slashed

everywhere. And there's only one budget all over the country that's going up and we have the power to

actually do something about it. Guess what budget in your city, in your county,

and in the biggest cities and counties all over the country

guess what budget is going up. I'm gonna tell you right after the break.

This is Sean King and you are listening to

The breakdown. And you are listening to the breakdown

the breakdown.

The breakdown.

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