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Idaho still will have to make substantial cuts in state agency budgets, despite the help it’ll receive from federal economic stimulus funds, state lawmakers said today. “There’s somehow this feeling that this bill will solve all the problems, and it just won’t,” said Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert. Idaho still could face “reductions in every area,” he said. His comments came after JFAC held its first of four days of hearings today on what’s in the stimulus bill for Idaho. You can read my full story here at spokesman.com.
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Nick_Adams on February 23 at 11:17 p.m.
Good Lord. Rather than waiting until his own committee has released its finding on what the recovery act will or won’t do, Cameron is still sharpening the axe.
Cameron and his ilk were drooling coming into the session over the prospects of cutting social services, education and just about every other critical component of state government—all in the name of the economic downturn. Now, without convenient political cover, he’s still hoping he can take the axe to services.
Of course, I’m sure he also believed Sen. Risch’s fairy tale about Pelosi’s mouse protection program. The idealogues have never been ones to let facts get in the way of whatever crap their selling.