RS, your examples sound like the "Washington Monument" strategy that is used so often. Its not questioned, and has unfortunately creeped into our culture. When we speak of cuts, immediately the bad guys talk about-and stop me if you've heard this before-Police, Fire, Roads, and of course The Children. This state actually turned off the sprinkler system years back at their schools in order to turn the lawns brown (I think this was during Prop 13 battling) meanwhile they were replacing carpeting inside in order to meet their budget spending so they didn't lose money the next year.
Its a giant shell game, we could cut half the state budget and not get into those 4 things, and everyone knows it. They want to fool us into being scared to cut ANYTHING by talking about "the children" (sounds like somebody's platform.)
Don't be fooled anymore. Its your money.
"Its a giant shell game, we could cut half the state budget and not get into those 4 things, and everyone knows it. "
Yep, so let HIM say what he will cut,
Why not simply take a copy of the budget and red pencil it ? He says he KNOWS where to save the money - lets see his plan.