Well, in about three weeks the Washington state budget will be coming forward. The the legislature will convene with its new and old guards and a new governor will be in office starting around the first of January 2012.
What my concerns are, is where they are going to be cutting to square the budget. My feeling is, they are going to be targeting what is left of social services to fill a billion dollar budget hole plus a washington state supreme court ruling with an additional billion dollars from this same budget area. And a new democratic government is saying he will be able to do a lot of reformation to make it happen.
As someone who has come to depend on social services of the state to stay alive, this concerns me. And no, please do not call me a leech, ok? I would like some of our local bloggers to live my life and walk in my shoes before they continue to utter such thievery of thought process.
I have done everything within my power to stay off these subsidies. So please go take your crank and go churn out your bull over on your own blogs about the columbia river crossing project, ok?
I am worried for the voiceless. The ones who may not be able to say much. The ones whom don't have the options and opportunities I have had. And it won't just be the social services that I feel will have to be targeted, it will be targets at higher education and transportation projects that are not bonded to achieve this promise.
If K-12 education is protected monies in the state budget, where else (short of long term bonds can you target?)
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Sadness - When things are looking down....
AS someone who has been in various hospitals in Clark, King and Whatcom counties over the past twenty years, I read this story of a young woman who died within the past week of Cancer. Liz Rowan passes on
I will not go into a comment on the comment section, that will be for the family, editor, publishing family to discuss. It is not something I feel is my place and would just inflict more pain on the family.
But I wanted to add some perspective as some one who has a debilitating chronic disease, lost body parts and watched older and younger members of my family that have died from this disease. And eventually, I will have more things go wrong in my own, young body.
I feel from my own issues and chronic disease, that at some point I will succumb to the damage of its effects. My family will have their time to grieve and since the local paper knows of me, I probably will also be target of an article by a local reporter.
My hope that the point that I do succumb, there will be a leadership change and possibly a new media system that covers our local community. I have seen what that local newspaper is capable of. Though I am not going to hold this reporter up as some one who has no heart or emotions, I have issue with her bosses and how they continue to use this community as a target practice for their own initiative and desires.
And how it manipulates situations to get what it wants. The whole story coming through the comments section alone is a tragedy in its own right.
I will say that I pray the reporter, the family and people who are closely involved will come to some comfort and resolution at some point. When some thing like this comes along, no one wins, no one.
And I just hope my own family or friends are the subject of it.
I will not go into a comment on the comment section, that will be for the family, editor, publishing family to discuss. It is not something I feel is my place and would just inflict more pain on the family.
But I wanted to add some perspective as some one who has a debilitating chronic disease, lost body parts and watched older and younger members of my family that have died from this disease. And eventually, I will have more things go wrong in my own, young body.
I feel from my own issues and chronic disease, that at some point I will succumb to the damage of its effects. My family will have their time to grieve and since the local paper knows of me, I probably will also be target of an article by a local reporter.
My hope that the point that I do succumb, there will be a leadership change and possibly a new media system that covers our local community. I have seen what that local newspaper is capable of. Though I am not going to hold this reporter up as some one who has no heart or emotions, I have issue with her bosses and how they continue to use this community as a target practice for their own initiative and desires.
And how it manipulates situations to get what it wants. The whole story coming through the comments section alone is a tragedy in its own right.
I will say that I pray the reporter, the family and people who are closely involved will come to some comfort and resolution at some point. When some thing like this comes along, no one wins, no one.
And I just hope my own family or friends are the subject of it.
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