Chuck S.,

I don't have a plan. I'm willing to admit that the financial problem, or crisis, is more complicated than you appear to think it is. So how much does your elimination of welfare and 99.9% reduction of DSHS and 60% reduction of state employee retirement reduce the budget gap by, or does it close it completely? Your solution appears to be off-hand or knee-jerk with no calculation of savings. Further, when you eliminate all but 1/10% of DSHS, you'll add many former state workers to the unemployment rolls, and oh, unemployment funds are exhausted, due to the widespread recession.

If the problem were easy, the state wouldn't need my recommendation on how to solve it. I don't think the state budget situation is as simple as you make it out to be.

Sg