Letter to the Editor: Love Your State, Fear Your Legislators

The Governor recently stated that he has a deal on a balanced budget.  The new budget would restore most of the money to our schools and cities. Also, that their would be a 530 million dollar surplus rainy day fund.

Has anyone thought to ask if the governor could have balanced the budget without shifting the 1.8 billion dollars onto the middle class, the working poor, and our retired senior citizens? No journalists of today aren’t asking these pesky questions.

There are no new revenues being collected or assessed.  So it would seem that the monies were somehow miraculously discovered after the Governor extorted concessions from anyone working in the public sector.  The Governor has interfered in every school district, and every city, township, in this state. The Governor has even interfered with the publics right to vote for local officials. The Governor and the legislators aren’t listening to the constituents of the state.  They only have ears for corporations and the Tea party. They attack anyone who is working or is retired drawing a pension. 

To punish our seniors and the poor just isn’t right.  How we treat our children the poor and our elderly morally defines our society and us.

You ask yourself why has the governor and the legislators attacked these groups. We’ll its because they don’t have a voice in government. The only voices legislators listen to come from the corporations in this state.  But, remember corporations are institutions not people they don’t need food, clothing, medicines, or shelter. They don’t feel any emotion or pain like people do when uncaring legislators pass bills that impact people’s day-to-day survival. Shifting tax burdens onto our most vulnerable population is morally wrong.

I love my state but I fear my Governor and my legislators.