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GOVERNOR PROPOSES RESPONSIBLY CONSERVATIVE BUDGET; CALLS FOR SHORT SESSION (BOISE) Delivering his fourth State of the State address to a joint session of the Idaho Legislature today, Governor C.L. Butch Otter proposed a responsibly conservative budget and urged lawmakers to join him in making it among the shortest, most congenial, most collaborative and most productive legislative sessions in our history. Governor Otter said that could be accomplished by sticking to Idahos core values and following five fundamental principles:

1.We must not raise taxes. It is not our place to impose an additional economic burden on the people of Idaho who already are struggling, or to put a damper on our economic recovery.
2.We must continue to maintain some level of cash reserve against the prospect of our economic recovery taking longer and being less robust than we hope.
3.We must do whatever we can within the peoples means to protect the educational opportunities and safeguard the potential of the next generation of Idahoans.
4.We must do whatever we can within the peoples means to protect the health, safety and well-being of our citizens especially the neediest and most vulnerable among us.
5.We must do whatever we can to avoid any duplication of effort or any waste of the taxpayers hard-earned dollars.
The Governor outlined his recommendations for a Fiscal Year 2011 budget that includes no increase in spending, as well as holding back an additional $40 million or 1.6 percent of what was appropriated last winter to all State agencies and operations including public schools for this years budget. That is among the toughest recommendations I make today, he said. But the fact is that while other Executive Branch agencies have cut their spending by $499 million as a result of holdbacks over the past two years, we have used almost $318 million from reserve accounts and federal stimulus funds during that same period to reduce the impact on public schools. In addition, the Governor proposed using almost $241 million from State reserve accounts and the non-endowed portion of the Millennium Fund to address projected revenue shortfalls in the balance of Fiscal Year 2010 and in Fiscal Year 2011.

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[winthegame3]

I work for Otter's campaign and I'd love to debate you. I enjoy listening to the altered facts you provided, thanks.

[barmer479]

@winthegame3 //would love to

[jrt31169]

did you say "Is gonna be the most stupidest"? although a freudian slip, i loved it.

i'm not exactly sure why government officials feel that the best way to make up deficits is to close down school-programs and thus throw is back further into a hole.

[barmer479]

sorry its the south living , lol

[moomay11649]

OMG ~ The schools are poor enuf without

pulling more money out of the budget.

Mooz

[barmer479]

i agree

[xxjacobxx3]

lol this doesnt suprise me. it happens all the time. The people in power are not problem solvers, and they arnt elected to change things. They are elected to keep things the way they are.

Even if they want to help things, there isnt a whole lot they can do, because in order to help things you would have to drift away from the monetary system. The monetary system paralyses improvement, and that is what the whole political system is based around.

If the gov. doesnt follow rules they out.

[gnnnjh]

2012 is near look at Haiti