[Mpls] Balancing Revenues and Expenditures

[Jim Mork]

Annie Young asks for suggestions to replace the $50,000 savings from closing 
wading pools.  I should expand that.  People should tell the various 
government agencies what BENEFITS THEY RECEIVE they'd prefer not to receive, 
rather than asking that SOMEONE ELSE'S BENEFITS be curtailed to keep 
receiving some benefit they like.  It is always easy to lobby for cutting a 
benefit you DON'T receive.  In fact, that is pretty universally how people 
prefer to cut budgets.

Always remember:  Just a couple of years ago we were arguing about how best 
to use surpluses.  We got new political "leadership" and now we have the 
twin joys of wars and cutting basic services.

Jim Mork
Cooper

Twin Cities Anti-War Protest and Speakout. Oppose George "The Man Who Would 
Be Caesar" Bush's Gallic war in Iraq.  March 29, 2pm, Loring Park, 
Minneapolis
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U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW "Suddenly, the government of the United States 
has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal 
war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty 
which impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured 
soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, 
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that 'it 
is against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in 
a manner that is humiliating for them'" 3.25.03 www.bushwatch.com
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