The SR Press Democrat ran an interesting editorial yesterday suggesting that as long as the lawmakers can't do their (most basic) job, why not ask the voters to suggest some solutions to the budget crisis. Now I could find several solutions to suggest, not the least of which might be to recall them all (including the governor), but the PD suggests we just check one response of these two:
Should the budget be balanced by spending cuts alone?
Should a mix of tax increases and spending cuts be adopted to balance the budget?
I'm not sure this will take us any further than we are now, but surely there's something we can do. We are paralyzed by fear of ... what could get worse? When do we march, begin to burn things, riot in the streets?
So how about a million post cards with a check of list of suggestions from the constituency. Suggestions like:
Is it time for the legislature to give up and resign quietly because they are inept?
Is it time to stop the strangle hold the minority has on the budget process and set up a new more deomocratic process based on majority rule?
Sign it and send it off - to the governor? Who's going to get this message - and very soon, please.
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