Laughable??

        OUCH!! It seems I struck a nerve with my letter in August 27th journal. Mr Chase states that the state workers are employed by a company and that the journal is providing a service by focusing on the financial burden the state work force puts on the state but reporting on one side of the story, even though it make good press, is unfair.

       The state is not a company. Its purpose is not to produce a profit. It has one purpose it to serve the citizens of Rhode Island which is what the state workers do and they do it well, beyond what the media would like our citizen to believe. They follow workers around to catch them defrauding the state and put it on the front page or the six o clock news but when was the last time they did a story of state workers doing their job, feeding and cleaning patients that nursing homes won't take for one reason or another.You see beating up state workers makes good press and attracts votes for the politicians who run our government. 

      According to Mr Chase,claiming that most of the states financial problems is caused by uninformed voters is laughable, having a 400 million dollar short fall in our state budget is no laughing matter and approving 200 million dollars in bond issues just added to the problem.

    Maybe Mr Chase should do a little survey and ask people how bonds are paid for. I've actually had people tell me bonds with matching fund doesn't cost the state anything. Running our state and the federal government on borrowed money is disastrous and is destroying our country. The economic strength of our country come from the value of its dollar. Who is going to pay for these huge deficits? The voters and their grand kids and maybe their kids are going to pay. The voters should vote like they are spending their own money because they are. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT, DON'T BUY IT.    

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