Pasadena Politics

You may hear people berating you about holding up the budget, but they are either lying to you are ignorant of the reality that all you are asking is that the “Hard Decision” they harp about is in cutting the budget.    It is the decision as to where to apply the scalpel of reform, where to cut the fat that is “Hard”.

Raising taxes is not a”Hard decision”.   It is typically the easier one to make.

They are afraid.   You have them where we, the taxpayers, want them: cornered with no escape but to beg you to release them; to let them take the easy way out and in so doing change nothing but send more taxpayers to other States.    So let them rail at you and threaten you.   They only do so from a position of weakness.   Take them to task.  Make them make the Hard Decision and cut the bloated and obnoxious budget – not one teacher will lose pay or a job if you do it right.