Senate priorities not on this continent

Well, let’s see, what’s the most important issue facing our legislators in Olympia?

Is it the screwed up highway transportation system that even with the proposed program fails to add new roads or widened lanes to our highway system? It is so bad we are rated second worst in the country. Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, our elected official, has for several years been transportation chairperson and must bear some of the blame.

Or is it our newly passed state budget, pushed through by our liberal Democratic Legislature, that spends more than it takes in? It borrows from future and rainy day funds, and even then is about a billion and a half in the red.

Or is it our governor who loves to spend and can’t bring himself, even in bad economic times, to freeze government employee hirings for fear of losing Democratic votes from government union employees? Ten other state governors using fiscal common sense froze new government employee hirings way back in August and September of 2001, but not our governor.

No, the main issue is that our senators, including Sen. Haugen, are upset at losing their French chef. When I recall my working days, I can’t remember a single French chef who fed me, only a wonderful lady (my wife) who packed a brown paper bag with American food.

Instead of re-electing the tax-and-spend crowd, we might consider their actions, or lack of, and go in a different direction.

Camano Island