[NEWwoman]

>>What 'good people' do when revenues fail to live up to expectations, and they lack the 'taxing authority'--CUT EXPENSES--and do the best they can with what they have.

This brings images of the "Battle of Bunker Hill", when the command came: "Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes."

The Patriots were low on ammo and saved it where it counted.

Yes, this may be too optimistic, but it may have been thought we were too optimistic to take on the Red Coats. Didn't we win? Let's take on "Red Davis"!

[Richard M. Nixon]

The problem is King George III seems to be plotting strategy for us... And we're going along.