I have had the privilege of meeting some of the students at our middle school and I would have to believe they could take note of the negative number in the equation and come up with a better solution.
The state is in a bad situation. There is no question about that. Cuts need to be made and revenue needs to be raised. Borrowing money is not a solution. Springfield is taking their stand in this an election year and opting to duck the hard choices. The people want action, we have all made hard decisions over the last few years and its time our state begins acting like the elected officials we need.
No cut is too small to worry about. One suggestion made in Quinn's website was to have him use the same bic pen instead of a new fancy pen to sign all legislation. Quinn wrote that off as it may only save a few hundred dollars a year. I say save that money and find more small cuts, to go along with larger ones. If our elected officials are afraid of making cuts to programs that may lose them votes at least make some cuts that will make us feel like their not wasting our money.
Do not waste time, action should be taken, doing nothing will not help your campaign this year.
Taking a quote which has inspired me throughout my life to accept hard challenges that come my way should ring in the ears of those in Springfield.
.......this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward......We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too..... - JFK, Moon Speech, 9/12/1962
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