For the one person viewing this Blog (Hi honey!), I'm still going over the budget.
All I can say is that the current and past Rhode Island governments didn't make it easy. They put in a lot of items that the government shouldn't have ever had any say in and don't have any constitutional power over. Not to mention their propensity to curry Union member votes by approving contracts they had no business approving.
Because of that, it's been tricky trying to figure out the best way to remove or fix these programs without hurting the people who have come to rely on them. Which, of course, is one of the main problems with having a nanny state. People become dependent on assistance from the Government that the government has no business providing...
This assistance then becomes almost impossible to get rid of and it grows over the years which, of course, leads to the government going bankrupt when this assistance begins to outpace the revenue. In that case everyone loses everything, even the things that the Government is supposed to take care of (like the roads, law enforcement, ect).
At least this way, with hopefully this plan, we can ease out of it and do it in a way that saves the state and the people that have become dependent on its government.
All I can say is that the current and past Rhode Island governments didn't make it easy. They put in a lot of items that the government shouldn't have ever had any say in and don't have any constitutional power over. Not to mention their propensity to curry Union member votes by approving contracts they had no business approving.
Because of that, it's been tricky trying to figure out the best way to remove or fix these programs without hurting the people who have come to rely on them. Which, of course, is one of the main problems with having a nanny state. People become dependent on assistance from the Government that the government has no business providing...
This assistance then becomes almost impossible to get rid of and it grows over the years which, of course, leads to the government going bankrupt when this assistance begins to outpace the revenue. In that case everyone loses everything, even the things that the Government is supposed to take care of (like the roads, law enforcement, ect).
At least this way, with hopefully this plan, we can ease out of it and do it in a way that saves the state and the people that have become dependent on its government.
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