In his five-minute address last night, Mitch Daniels referred to other statesâ?? fiscal woes no fewer than four times.
Daniels, who is so fiscally conservative that one wonders whether he darns his own socks, is rightfully proud that his state hasnâ??t fooled away a strong financial position. Few governors have had the backbone to impose such discipline on their legislatures.
Last night, though, Daniels said heâ??s willing to spend a quarter of the surplus as one of several compromises to get a budget passed, leaving about $1 billion remaining.
How do you feel about spending down some of the surplus? The economy is nowhere near recovered, and some forecasters talk of a possible double-dip recession or a recovery requiring not months but years.
Should Daniels bargain away even a quarter of the reserve at this point?
Daniels, who is so fiscally conservative that one wonders whether he darns his own socks, is rightfully proud that his state hasnâ??t fooled away a strong financial position. Few governors have had the backbone to impose such discipline on their legislatures.
Last night, though, Daniels said heâ??s willing to spend a quarter of the surplus as one of several compromises to get a budget passed, leaving about $1 billion remaining.
How do you feel about spending down some of the surplus? The economy is nowhere near recovered, and some forecasters talk of a possible double-dip recession or a recovery requiring not months but years.
Should Daniels bargain away even a quarter of the reserve at this point?
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Adding to this is the terrible burdens put upon schools by the federal governments idiotic no child left behind and other foolishness that requires dancing with the devil and overburdening administrative goober-headed nonsense. It is time to take the federal gov'mint out of the education system before they take it from near to total collapse. The increases have to stop. How much more money do we throw at the disfunctional public education system?
This is by no means a smack down on teachers. They have their hands and brains tied behind their backs by overburdening rules and chicken bleep administrations. If they were allowed to do their jobs efficiently and effectively and students were kept in line, perhaps progress could be made.
Legislators - find a way to make it NEARLY impossible for money sucking lawyers to be able to sue schools for their latest, creative rights issues. We need to get the so-call Civil Liberties Union out of our lives before they make our nation another North Korea.
Get these things done and then, maybe we can get somewhere.
sucks to be us.