State’s budget cuts could be avoided

Published 10:05 am Thursday, December 30, 2010

To close its large budget shortfall, our state has decided to eliminate ferry runs and increase fares. These decisions will further reduce ferry ridership and revenues, increase the budget deficit, damage tourism, limit working options and create a downward death-spiral for an essential public service.

Other budget cuts will make the disabled homeless, deny children health care, eliminate food stamps and abandon the elderly.

This budget will eliminate the excess population and spread misery throughout our state. We are told with crocodile tears there is no other way, no other choice. But we have no choice only if government no longer exists for the benefit of its people.

Only if we have a government by the corporations, for the corporations, and of the corporations must we abandon each other and create a survival of the fittest world and state.

Our legislators are corporate lackeys, with Governor Gregoire orchestrating the Hollywood performance. Virtually all politicians now work for corporate interests. That is why we the people are sacrificed and why corporate tax giveaways are never repealed or rolled back. When times are tough, the elderly, disabled, children and the hungry must pay the price. Never the rich. The budget shortfall could be solved effortlessly and instantly if corporations were forced to pay their fair share and our representatives represented us.

Martin P. Hayes,

Indianola