Tim Kaine's Report on Budget Cuts

Here's the full document
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/tem...lPlan_10-8.pdf

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Think Virginia's budget headache is bad now -- wait until next year.

"It's going to get worse," predicted Del. Phillip A. Hamilton, R-Newport News, vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's plan for closing a $2.5 billion hole in the $77 billion budget is a pastiche of pain: $324 million in spending cuts, including colleges and law enforcement; 570 layoffs; postponing a 2 percent pay raise for state workers and leaving 870 jobs unfilled.

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We got the word last night that a handful of facilities were shutting down. It makes for a somber muster when you get word that communities are losing their economic backbones [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif[/img]

Kinda like when Westmoreland left....IMO when the big mines left, the backbone left with it. The prisons were a patch, but the void left by the coal companies wasn't even filled by them. Not saying anything bad about the prisons, just a statement of fact.

Agreed. Thankfully those prisons were there to buffer us a bit and get some of those folks hired.