--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:37 PM 10/20/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/20/opinion/20MON3.html > > > >Well, I hope you're happy as prisoners are let out early, people die, > >teachers are fired,
Guv Rip & co. are the ones making the decision about which programs to cut. Instead of making wise choices for the state, they are making the choices which are in their own political and power sustaining, best intrests.
Yes. Pretty much the way it has been done for at least 102 years (since the current state constitution was written by said interests to keep themselves in power) and probably for the past 184 years (since statehood). People are sick and tired of it, and sick and tired of throwing good money after bad. Unlike what has been suggested in earlier posts here, the 2-1 vote against the tax increase was not something orchestrated by out-of-state interests who want Alabama to become a third-world country (any more than the people brought in from out of state to support it had sufficient influence to get it passed), but a response from the people.
-- Ronn! :)
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