The US may have avoided a government shutdown when they raised their debt ceiling earlier in the year, but New York's Suffolk County said on Friday they had no choice: they had to sack Santa Claus, to save 600$
The county executive said he could not justify carving out $660 (411.37 pounds) from his $2.7 billion budget to pay David McKell, 83, a World War II veteran and former homicide detective, to don his Santa suit for the tenth year running and greet children on Long Island.
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