The State of the Union

Tonight's blog will not be about the State of the Union, because I forgot it was tonight. What is worse, I'm not sure I care I missed it. Actually what I miss is being excited about events such as this, heck I'd settle for being plan interested. So enough on the state of the union, lets talk on the state of the state.

Our beloved governor and her friends in Olympia have decided to close 20 or so trails in the State most in Western Washington, including Mount Si and Little Si, which bring 500,000 visitors a year, the rest of the effected sites bring in about 225,000 visitors a year. Now our beloved state is $2.6 billion dollars short this year, because we have sent idiot children to Olympia to do grown up work. It's not a Republican problem, it is not a Democratic problem and it's not George Bush's fault, it is our fault and we are paying for it by having our public land shuttered. You might ask how much is shutting down these 20 or so sites going to save, a couple million dollars maybe. No, $278,000.00, so now the state is short only $2,599,722,000.00. Of course a per use fee of lets say $1 would more than cover the cost to keep these trail and sites open. A $5 per use fee would produce revenue and might help the state and the forests in the long run. But that would be user specific taxation, and we only target that sort of thing for smokers. Besides the Governor wants to raise taxes across the board for all of us, so user targeted revenue streams aren't going to be necessary. Please do yourself a favor and in November, don't vote for the same idiots that have run the state into ground. Vote for new idiots.