My RSS feed pinged this morning with another snappy editorial from the publisher/editor of The Union. Don’t let his picture fool you — Jeff Ackerman gets it. (Sorry, Jeff…I couldn’t resist.)

This is worth your time to read.

What really frosts me is the threat they always make, parading teachers and firefighters and cops out, as if to say, “If you don’t give us more money, we’ll release all the murderers into your kids’ classrooms, where there won’t be any teachers or cops to save them and when they burn the school down, there won’t be any firefighters to put out the flames.”

Here’s a better idea: Tell the UC chancellor he doesn’t deserve $400,000 per year and a 100-member staff. Then shut down, or consolidate, half of the state departments and have the state Legislature close every other month.

And for extra measure, not another new law gets passed until there is a balanced budget. Every time they pass a bill, it costs somebody money.

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