Letter: A solution for the state budget

kathy a.
01/26/2010 10:50 AM

Your statement was pejorative..they usually are.

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kathy a.
01/26/2010 9:39 AM

Sometimes Larry you should push delete instead of submit..

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joe r.
Willmar, MN     01/25/2010 10:08 PM

Check all the state and city budgets for one, and look at what should be considered too costly for one. I know for a fact there has been issues with old city and state buildings that are not being used but being maintained. Either sell them off, rent them, or demolish them. Like I stated before raise the vehicle licensing a bit, and have people living in the metro purchase a city sticker, fifteen, twenty dollars a year. Cutting programs that will especially hurt the elderly, and the poor cannot be acceptable. Also when state and city contracts they should always be mindfull of the expense and look for the best affordable bids. Law-enforcment should hold on to some of their vehicles a few years longer, and in some case team officers up unless they are doing this already. Only your supervisors should be in a car by themselves especially in a budget crisis. Hey maybe this is going on already, and maybe I don't know jack, but one thing I can say, is we went from a surpluss when Jesse left, to a deficit now. People are over pricing their services because they see county or city attached, and every city in the US is being budgeted by the government because of the war. The high gas prices and other services took their toll as well. To keep cutting programs that effect the homeless, the elderly, and the ill, make matters worst, and do not fix a thing. Programs that get people back to work, and the homeless back on their feet to become productive citizens, will serve to generate more revenue for the cities, counties, and state. Our prisons accross the US are all facing serious budget problems, and yet people want judges to put people away for longer terms and expect this to be paid for by the tax payers! Not only do you have to find officers to supervise those who are incarcerated, but have to provide progams for them as well. Prisons, courts and jails are all facing the same hardships and you cannot afford to do any more cutting in these places as they are doing now!

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Ben C.
01/25/2010 2:32 PM

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