Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

Here is a response from State Rep. Janice E Arnold Jones on my earlier posting......
She has common sense written all over her! Hope you heard her a week ago explaining the Budget crises on NM News and Views.......

Dewey; the Republican members of the House offered 48 ideas to cut costs that the Governor could enact today -- steps that did not require any legislative action among those ideas was the release of non-violent offenders who were within 90 days of their scheduled release date. Also on that list was the elimination of the rose bowl float. The point is the Governor has overspent. We're here. Now how is/are he/we going to fix the problem?

this process will be difficult and some choices unpleasant.

Rather than stand without solutions we tried to bring to light cost saving ideas that could be implemented with almost immediate affect. Most of these ideas were pulled from e-mails sent by our constituents. Some of the ideas were great. Some need thought. We were so impressed that we created an e-mail address to solicit more cost saving ideas. We hope everyone, especially State employees, will share what they see, how we can save money and at the same time improve service to our citizens. The e-mail address is NMBudgetIdeas@gmail.com
talk about choices, the House voted to suspend contributions to the State's teacher pension fund the same fund that we required an additional contribution from teachers in January. Choices! I thought this was a poor choice.

Always appreciate KKIM/ Daily Cup and your service to our awesome God. Please continue to pray for wisdom and guidance for your servant legislators. Janice

And from Shona in White Rock, NM.........

Dewey,

Yes, it is a sad state of affairs. But, just last night I was telling my hubby that I'll bet I could go to SF and cut the budget.....and I'll bet I could do it in one day! If my personal budget was in such shambles, I could do it there too.

Gov Richardson just doesn't live in the real world and I figure that the current politicians (even the good ones) are so close to the situation (and to those who want/need) money, that they are having a hard time being objective. IF we got some citizens in the budget meetings that didn't have any ties to any entities receiving gov't money, there would be some effective (if painful) cuts that would help eliminate waste.

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