In LA "alone"? The city of Los Angeles has a population of 3.8 million people and in 2025 a budget of about $14 billion. That would be something like 0.01% of

In LA "alone"? The city of Los Angeles has a population of 3.8 million people and in 2025 a budget of about $14 billion. That would be something like 0.01% of LA's budget. https://cao.lacity.gov/budget25-26/Budget_Summary/2025-26Budget_Summary.pdf https://cao.lacity.gov/budget25-26/Budget_Summary/2025-26Bud... That's like saying "At Google alone they spent X dollars" as if it was indicative of companies in general. To be fair if you mean Kenneth Hahn, and are referring to when he was LA County Chair in 1978, obviously that would be a much larger sum relatively. But it's the largest city in CA now and it was then too.