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Gov. Haley Barbour
He made the announcement after the Budget Committee, which includes legislative leaders, met Wednesday morning and cut the revenue estimate for the current fiscal year by another $119.4 million. The committee also cut the estimate for the upcoming fiscal year $112.9 million.
The action of the Budget Committee will make it even more difficult for state agencies and school districts to finish the current budget year. And it will also hamper efforts of legislators to agree on a budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
For the current fiscal year, the governor already had cut $458.5 million from education and state agencies based on the historic drop in state tax collections.
The cuts of $458 million equated to an 8.7 percent reduction for most agencies. The additional $41 million in cuts means most agencies will absorb cuts of 9.5 percent.
Education is the key to survival in our world today. He cuts that first before anything else.
He supports money for the jails. If our people were more educated and had better lives; there would be fewer criminals in the jails.
When MS. is the only state in the Union without unemployment; the crime rate will surely double. People have to take care of their families.
Maybe by that time he'll have closed all the schools, shut down the DPS and made aspirin illegal to possess without a state issued permit. All without accepting any "federal bailout money", dipping into the "rainy day fund", or raising the tobacco taxes. That seems to be his goal.
He's an idiot.
We have a governor and legislature that can't "think out the the box" and come up with creative ways to deal with the current economic challenges.
Instead, they just take the easiest course of action and that is usually to just cut something out and/or lower the departmental budgets and make the departmental folks deal with it.
While that may work in some departments, education is the LAST thing that Mississippi should be cutting. They can't teach adequately with the budgets that they operate under now, much less a decrease in their funding.
But I guess that's one way to keep the state stupid so that idiots like these can continue to be elected.
Yeah, "Go Walking" off a short peir!