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It's so disheartening to see these cuts taking place. Thankfully, not where I live (yet - knock on wood).

Where do these people think that poor people will develop their computer skills or search for jobs? Aren't they all about poor people getting off the unemployment and/or welfare rolls and getting jobs? Well, most job applications are online only now and the majority of poor people don't have a computer. Maybe they can go to the Miami-Dade mayor's house and fill out their job applications.

What about teens who use the library as a safe place? I guess they'd rather have the teens out in the streets, at the malls, or causing trouble rather than in the library where they'll actually go on the computer, play games, interact with other teens in a safe, non-violent surrounding, and get to read books in the process.

It's amazing that people keep thinking that libraries are "dead" when in fact, library circulation nationwide has been increasing.