Really governor, human services, K-12 education, Department of Corrections and threatening salmon recovery and habitat protection services already being paid for with current tax dollars.

Not one of these programs need to be cut or lose funding. Your constant tunnel vision attacking paid-for programs instead of simply cutting your spending in Olympia. No matter how many times you and your tax spending liberal cronies raise taxes, it’s never enough.

Just one question, what happens to the fixed income senior or veteran or special needs people that can no longer pay all the accumulated taxes of decades of careless and wasteful spending? I know, let’s start more entitlement programs to an already broken state that currently cannot pay its bills.

It worked for President Obama, right? Wrong! The state of Washington is part of a symptom created at the local, the state and the federal level.

Voters better start paying attention at all levels of government, their arrogant tax and spending ways. Replacing Gov. Gregoire with a tax spending male version of herself, Jay Inslee, would spell disaster for our state. Any hardcore conservative from any party that can quite simply look at a budget and a checkbook and just stop the foolish and wasteful spending, should be given serious consideration.

Taxpayers have to budget their spending. Government at every level should be required to do the same.

Remember voters, it starts with us. They answer to us, not the other way around. You’ve just been made to believe this. If we continue to vote for the same failures caused by the same people, then we deserve what we get. These are the hard facts. Time to reevaluate ourselves.

Vern Laprath, Bremerton