Paying for a lot of silly things here and there
We need to get our priorities of government organized [“A warning for the president,” Opinion, David Broder syndicated column, Dec. 27].
If we don’t want to pay the extra money, lawmakers will cut core services first, like reducing prison beds and cutting the police force.
Our governor recently said that more money had to be raised for the government to spend or people would lose their feet and become homeless.
All the while they insist the budget is scrubbed of waste.
Really?
Just for starters, you and I pay $27,000 for a poet laureate. State lottery advertisements will get $11 million, and we will pay $800 million for light-rail art in Seattle. Are you happy about the $145 thousand we will spend rescuing derelict crab pots?
Several billion dollars in expenses of this nature are in the current state budget, and it’s all our money.
— John F. Derrig, Bellevue