BREAKING NEWS: Kitzhaber Pushes for Across-the-Board Budget Cuts (Oregon Gov. Forced to make cuts)

KGW.com ^ | 08/27/2002 | By AP and KGW Staff

[Almondjoy]

Then I guess the masses have a lack of education when they see a massive budget deficit their officals created yet somehow they don't vote them out of office... hmmm.

[Almondjoy]

Agreed.. no accountability.. You have an agency head that asks for a budget.. who's going to disagree?? I think it would actually be kind of rightous for our Congress to trim the fat.. they wouldn't even have to cut programs.. bring in private sector firms to cut out the middle managers that corporations did and whoa look at that we would show a massive surplus. The whole system needs to be shaken up from top to bottom excpet there is NO ONE powerful enough to do it. I hate to say it but the last president that acutally shook up the system from tip to toe was Roosevelt.. blah blah blah for better or for worse he changed ALOT and I don't want you haters to say it was all bad because it clearly wasn't. In any case I agree with you compeletely on gov't. The problem is that the individual worker there doesn't deserve your contempt.

[joyce11111]

Maybe we wouldn't have such a shortfall if the deadwood was eliminated. And, the Pers program for state employees was drasticly cut.