[scrubber]

Even with Squishy Oregon Republicans, Dr. John is forced to make across the board cuts. The only semi-bad part is the doctor was able to save his own pet programs and concentrate the cuts on visible items like education and health programs in an effort to make Republicans look bad because they refused to increase taxes.

[Joe Boucher]

We have to raise revenue or cut govt? Ok start with anything that will make them think the sky is falling. The childrens services, police protection, etc.etc.
How about cutting things like aid to any and all welfare agencies? How about cutting all unnecessary funding to all govt. agencies. How about having the govt. employees take pay cuts?

[hattend]

The recession has caused tax revenue to plunge by more than $1.3 billion since lawmakers adopted the $12 billion, two-year budget in July 2001.

Too bad he killed the timber industry. The taxes/fees collected from them could have saved him the trouble.

[r9etb]

He said the cuts could include the reduction of the school year by three weeks, closing four of the state's five regional juvenile facilites and laying off 100 state troopers, among other things.

Well, here's the standard list of what "budget cuts" means. Obviously there's nothing else in the state budget that could absorb the overruns....

The politics here is obvious, of course. He's pushing for a tax increase.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the good news about the upcoming cuts. The main reason that the budgets have to be cut besides the leftist spending is the worse Governor in the history of Oregon with the anti business Watermelon Green Jihadists has created massive unemployment in the state.

Here is a link of how Oregonians and some of out of Oregon are taking the battle to the Watermelon Green Jihadists in Oregon: (It is time to announce the official kickoff of F.I.R.E. or Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism)

Join us in returning sanity to the forests of Oregon instead of the Green Insanity! Thanks!

[dixiechick2000]

This is key...

"The governor is also calling for a fifth special session sometime next week. He hasn't said what day the session should start. Kitzhaber wants lawmakers to meet soon enough to put a tax measure, possibly an income tax increase, on the Nov. 5 ballot. He said the deadline for doing that is Sept. 7."

[Joe Hadenuf]

Cut the state government in half or more for starters....

[Salvation]

Poor Kitzhopper.

[Lancey Howard]

Cool! Here we go again!

Tennessee, California, Oregon and many other states are grappling with their budgets and it's the same everywhere - - it's the parasites vs. the taxpayers.

But no matter what the Republicans do, the parasites will always vote for the Democrats. Parasites are the Democrats' main constituency. That will never change. And Democrats use money confiscated from working, traditional American families (the Republicans' main constituency) to buy the votes of the parasites.

So, if the Republicans agree to raise taxes all they are doing is giving their mortal enemies, the Democrats, additional resources to fight them with. It would be like a Marine throwing a loaded rifle to a Viet Cong fighter.

How stupid would the Republicans have to be to agree to a tax increase?

[WaterDragon]

Oregon wouldn't be in such bad shape if the Democrats hadn't made business here the most heavily regulated in the country. And if the Democrats hadn't gone on spending binges. The budget cuts will be done by this governor in a way to punish Oregon voters for not supporting his exhorbitant tax increases. That's just how the Democrats naturally operate.