And what would you do with the money?

I was just listening to the Tom Hartman Show.

SIDE NOTE: (Once I met his co-host Heidi in the bathroom at a club, she’s was very cool and she and her husband even bought us a drink, but I digress.)

Tom had a guest, an Oregon conservative named Greg Clapper, who was criticizing Oregon’s governor for increasing the state’s budget by 20%. Mr. Clapper was complaining that he (The Governor,) wanted to spend it all.

Hmmm. It got me thinking.

If your family didn’t have health insurance,
If your children weren’t getting a good education because they didn’t have the supplies that they needed, or were stuck in a class with 30 other children,
If your schools had one of the shortest school year in the country because of budget cuts,
If you had family members that were sleeping in the street, or eating from a food bank because they didn’t have enough,
If your city lost so much federal timber income that the only recourse was laying off police officers.

If all of these things were happening to your family.

And you were given a 20% raise.

Wouldn’t you spend the money?

On health insurance for your children,
On your children’s schools,
On feeding your hungry family members,
On keeping your family safe?

Doesn’t that seem like the responsible thing to do with the 20% increase in your budget?