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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (88977)	11/20/2004 11:29:51 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I see. So you let the people of a state suffer to prove some fiscal point. Well, let's hope you are correct in your assesment of the complex funding issues, and that you assign the blame correctly, and that the folks who suffer understand your noble fiscal goals, and that it does actually end up ordering something. If you really want to punish someone, put the guys from Enron in jail, or the fools who made the contracts with them. Punishing Salinas by taking away their library isn't going to prove much of anything to anybody- thought it may prove quite a problem to kids who want to check out books in Salinas (imo, etc). Now what if your state has some fiscal problems? Should the libraries, schools and hospitals bear the brunt of the wroth of fiscal conservatives, when they did nothing to cause the problems? Seems a bit short sighted to me, since when you cut like that, you are hurting real people- not just making abstract points about good government. Will you stop supporting your hospital and library and schools if your state runs in to financial difficulty? Will you refuse to patronize the hospital that you do not support if the state runs in to financial difficulty? (that would seem the only ethical thing to do, when one is concerned about making a strong statement against state spending) .................... "I'm for bailing out libraries, myself, heck, I even believe in bailing out schools, and hospitals. in your opinion you see when I said "believe" that kind of says right out there that it IS my opinion. I didn't say anything like "the entire idea is wrong"- which then I WOULD have had to qualify with an "imo"- see how that works? I have no problem with supporting and I do, libraries, schools and hospitals in my community and state not in other states that can't balance their budget and expect a free bailout - where is the incentive to get their house in order? imo, it's like putting money down a bottomless pit natural disasters is an entirely different situation"