Priorities in County Spending ... Majority Republicans have it WRONG

They want to blame someone else (usually the Democrats) for what they are not willing to do. That of course is reduce spending ... now.

We must look at reality, at the federal, state and local level we are looking at a reduction in aid and revenue. We must plan for it to insure we are not looking at raising taxes. The Majority leader forgets, or tries in a very lawyerly fashion to avoid the facts of the case when they are not in her favor. We have had 12 years of Republican Leadership in New York State, over seven years in the Federal Government and decades in Oswego County ... this has brought us a economic recession, and record deficits.

What we need is the Majority Leader to stop playing blame game and do what she was elected to do...make the tough decisions of reducing spending. Come on ...do we really need a $175,000.00 in new furniture?? Other departments have needs ... we must make priorities...we have to make our tax dollars stretch further.

Just like county taxpayers who now have to make the tough decisions so should we. Gas is going up, the cost of food and everything else. Its time to start making those hard decisions and not return to the "Tax and Spend" policies that marked the Republican Leadership of just a few years ago which the new Majority Leader was a part of.