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Article: An alternative approach to the Pennsylvania budget
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- Central Penn Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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Now come the finger pointing and politically correct apologies. But the Pennsylvania legisla- ture and governor owe us more than an explanation and an apology. They owe us a solution to ensure this never happens again. And they owe it to us now, not next year or next decade.
State leaders continue to negotiate budgets as if we still have a part-time legislature. In the 1960s, the average legislator most likely was a high school graduate whose life was organized around a local job and a family. So it made sense for leaders to work out a budget that the rank and file would largely ratify.
Today's full-time legislators are different animals. They are college graduates whose lives are organized ...