The lamestream media told you:
With state legislatures wrapping up their sessions across America, budget cuts and reduced spending may lead to reduced fire, police, roadwork and other essential services. Legislators who have worked hard on tax rebates, tax reductions and lower government spending may have hurt the public at large with ill-conceived spending cuts.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Although reporters are highly prone to repeat empty statements about cutting police, fire and essential services in hard financial times, there appears to be no logical grounds for doing so, other than a mindless lapdog mentality pervasive in the “news” business.
The obvious top choice for cuts when funds are short is bureaucratic waste, not the fire department.
This is followed by agency redundancies, worthless regulatory programs, burdensome funding of pork recipients and other gross governmental waste. Even a moron knows you cut police and fire last, not first. Because that’s less sensational and would not instill a sense of fear to increase spending, it is ignored, and the media faithfully promotes the government’s agenda.
Newspapers and network TV viewership continue to decline.

