Governor Mike Beebe
State Capitol Little Rock
Governor Beebe, January 9, 2011
Your quotes in today’s edition of the Dem-Gaz go far beyond arrogance. They demonstrate an utter disregard for the producers, i.e. the taxpaying citizens who generate the funds to keep the Behemoth known as the Arkansas State Government afloat. I, of course, refer to your announcement that you were awarding state government employees a cost-of-living raise of 1.86% across the board. How long has it been since you have seen Arkansas citizen workers and Social Security recipients get a raise?
Our republic is in an economic free-fall to the abyss and the folks supporting it are struggling mightily economically. During your tenure you have increased the number of Arkansas state employees by a number somewhere between 3,000 & 4,000. The only way you can accomplish that is by FORCED REDISTRIBUTION.
If you and those thousands of underworked, overpaid bloated government employees cannot make it on the salaries and perks they receive, then all should hit the road for greener pastures.
Then there is the matter of you giving $55.1 million to the slush fund of the failed government education system. Money does not educate, as we have witnessed over and over and over again.
Citizens, please call your elected senators and representatives and urge them not to vote for the Governor’s vote-buying expansionistic scheme.
Joe McCutchen
FEED IT AND IT WILL GROW & GROW!!!
Cc: citizens