Comment Re:Cry More (Score 1) 139
First, what numbers are you using to get $4 trillion for state budgets? Some of that is overlap from the Federal budget which sends some of the tax money back to states for administration of federal programs. When that money is cut, state budgets drop as a result. That happened this year in Arizona when federal subsidies to certain AZ state programs were cut and AZ had to raise the amount it collected from cities and counties to meet the shortfall. Source: currently living in Arizona.
Where would you start cutting waste from? Personnel? Maintenance and equipment? Welfare programs? Military budgets?* Wild-land fire-fighting efforts in rural America? FDA monitoring? The Education Department? The lovely sequestration game that BOTH major political parties brought down on us is already limiting what agencies can accomplish. Yeah, yeah, "do more with less", blah blah blah. There are only so many hours you can make people work in a day before they burn out. There's only so long you can run equipment on a shoe-string budget before something breaks.
For the record, I am NOT a Democrat and I do understand numbers when I put a dollar sign in front of them.
*Killing the F35 would have saved us a lot of money. Killing it now would still save us future expenses associated with making that bucket-o-bolts work worth a damn and the infrastructure upgrades to go along with it. Write your Congresscritters.
Where would you start cutting waste from? Personnel? Maintenance and equipment? Welfare programs? Military budgets?* Wild-land fire-fighting efforts in rural America? FDA monitoring? The Education Department? The lovely sequestration game that BOTH major political parties brought down on us is already limiting what agencies can accomplish. Yeah, yeah, "do more with less", blah blah blah. There are only so many hours you can make people work in a day before they burn out. There's only so long you can run equipment on a shoe-string budget before something breaks.
For the record, I am NOT a Democrat and I do understand numbers when I put a dollar sign in front of them.
*Killing the F35 would have saved us a lot of money. Killing it now would still save us future expenses associated with making that bucket-o-bolts work worth a damn and the infrastructure upgrades to go along with it. Write your Congresscritters.
