These sites have way more than you want to know and will just confuse most people.
They get all excited about finding a few thousand dollars of waste, fraud or abuse. When you are spending almost twenty billion a year that ranks somewhere below “insignificant”.
Education is the only area that is a large enough percentage of the budget and has enough room for improvement in efficiency to make a noticeable difference.

You are right, my careless language back in post #1 got me nailed. Fortunately, for me, you, Mikey, and anyone else who seriously wants spending cuts, Russ Snyder’s response rings completely hollow.

Fortunately for my bank account, I’m not going to send a check to politicians who spend more effort pretending to be conservative to get a check, than those who are willing to take on political risk by calling war on bloated budgets.

Also thank you jawn for stating the problems with Russ’s comment so accurately and succinctly.

And I’m serious about supporting (financially) any state politicians who is serious enough to cut spending that he/she has actually read budgets and has concrete ideas about where to cut out the fat.

By the way, what are the best sites to see budgets for state and local goverments? I’m sure they are out there, and with the internet, I have no excuse not reading them.

Hint: If they aren’t willing to make major changes in Education then they will just be nibbling around the edges. A million here, a million there, doesn’t mean diddlely squat.

Would you be courageous enough to say in your election bid that by re-sending all of the paid days off work the county employees get (the ones the rest of the real world do not get) you could permanently lay off 10% of the County workforce ?

Of course not. If you were to say that on the campaign trail, you would be run out of the county on a rail.

This is my point, real change can NOT happen here in WV.

Would that cutting include say eliminating

Let me be the first.

I’m a Republican candidate (for Harrison County Commission), and I would like to cut spending.

I’m not sure where all of the waste is yet, but I fully intend to carefully review the budget (line by line) and all additional funding requests to find it. I would like very much to reduce the amount of expenditures so that when we determine the property tax rate we require to meet the reduced requirements.

You can make your check out to:
Friends of Russ
Route 2, Box 326
Lost Creek, WV 26385

You are limited to a $1000 donation.

Thanks!

Get rid of the Turnpike bureaucracy and the orange trucked Turnpike State Road department.

Paint the equipment white and transfer it and a portion of the employees to the State Road Department and FIRE all the administrators. Sell Tammarack and auction off all the property they control.

WILL NEVER HAPPEN. There are too many political favor jobs and it would be a loss of Democrat power.

This is just one example of common sense changes that could be made but will never happen in West Virginia.

For some reason, cutting even one State job is not acceptable in West Virginia.

The West Virginia mentality working against us once again.

After all, employment for the State is a large welfare program which is popular with the straight ticket pullers.