Sitting Idly By....

There's been a lot of talk lately about budget cuts and how to get the state back in the black for FY 2009. Well, we have one suggestion: stop buying new state vehicles. The ones we have are clearly are not used.

We caught rows of idle state vehicles in a parking ramp with layers of dust on them. It's obvious they haven't been driven in quite a while.

So while the Democrats complain and complain that it is the national economy they ignore what they can do to take care of the budget mess they created. Republicans offered an amendment that would have suspended the purchasing of new vehicles for the remainder of FY 09 and all of FY 10. Instead of accepting this common sense amendment that would have saved over $10 million they rejected it. Instead of using the vehicle in this photo and many more just like it the Democrats would rather use your tax dollars to prop up Ford and General Motors.

Finally, we'll say it again: Democrats don't have a deficit problem, they have a spending problem and this parking ramp is proof.