Posted on 10/23/2005 2:03:38 AM PDT by goldstategop
The scene may seem familiar to Californians: a Republican governor warning that fiscal meltdown is imminent unless voters approve new rules on how much money the state can spend each year.
But Colorado Gov. Bill Owens isn't looking for the kind of budget cap that California Republicans want voters to approve next month. That was imposed 13 years ago.
Now he is pleading with voters to lift it.
The problem: Colorado's spending controls appear to have worked too well. Now some of the most strident fiscal conservatives in Colorado long viewed as a model for others considering such restraints say the cap has strangled government. There is talk of closing community colleges, privatizing the university system, releasing inmates early.
Owens said he never saw it coming.
"I don't think it was designed to cripple government," he said of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, or TABOR, amendment his state's voters approved. "This is an unintended consequence."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Is he still around? How disgusting! Hopefully he is only being paid and not allowed to teach his lies and subversion.
I'm not sure of his teaching status, but it appears that the taxpayers of Colorado will have to pay for his sorry butt forever!
Well, yes, of course, that first. But for elderly sitting around in boxes on the streets or otherwise living in deprivation in the U.S., without any family to aid and assist -- or available to do so -- society can at least devote a hand to help.
I don't exclude aid and assistance to the impoverished who have no means to help themselves. It's not an indication of a healthy culture, I agree, but it's a reality that some individuals will always fall into terrible circumstances, despite their best intentions. We as a society can at least provide a minimum of effort to help their final years.
I DO draw the line at not evaluating income in the mix. The days of the senions in big ole' motor homes and fine homes using taxpayer dollars to avoid touching their own resources is out, as far as I'm concerned.
Liberal Editorial disguised as a news story. Pathetic as always. Yawn.....
The real problem in Colorado, which the LA Times didn't mention, is that Amendment 23 was passed in 2000 by the idiot voters who were bamboozled by the huge amount of money poured into the campaign by the Teacher's Union. Amendment 23 forces the state to keep jacking up the amount of money spent on K thru 12 education, regardless of the revenues collected. That is the major factor in the shortages for other state funded programs.
Owens is caught between Amendment 23 and the reality of having to fund the rest of the state budget.
AMENDMENT 23 MUST BE REPEALED!!!!
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
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