Category: GOP Politics
Posted: 03/05/10 16:21
by Dave Mindeman
I realize it can be hard for the GOP to keep up their "fiscally" responsible image without looking like a bunch of Simon LeGrees.
But some of these proposals border on being unnoticeable.
Today's version is to reduce the
size of the legislature. No nothing about making it unicameral and not cutting it in half. Nope, the GOP proposal is to cut it down from 201 to 168. 33 members?
For a grand total savings of $1.5 to $4.5 million per year.
When compared to the billions in deficits and the overall state budget, I'm underwhelmed.
But if that is what they want to do, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Let's see 8 senate seats sliced off....that's about 1/3 of the entire GOP caucus. Workable.
But seriously, it is more like a retail customer buying a pack of gum. The total price comes to 97 cents... the clerk rings it up and puts the dollar in the drawer but when offering the 3 cents change, the customer says.."Ah, dump it in the penny tray, I don't want to carry pennies around."
That about sums up a lot of these GOP "frugality" proposals. They are just change for the penny tray. I get reminded of last sessions petulant arguments about stamps. And before that it was per diem payments. Penny wise....pound foolish.
I would prefer that the GOP come up with a savings plan that could produce enough money to get the GAMC people back on life support. But no, they would rather just eliminate that altogether.
So they can keep working on that penny tray.
