We have severe problems next year. This year's budget is held together on a ball of twine, glue and a whole lot of faith.
Sen Susan Bartlett
If we've got the money, we should use it.
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It is not very often that a group is told that the doors of Appropriations are open for us to ask them about their needs. But, for this group, for the Guard and its families, it is. We will find the money to take care of them if other parts of the government won't.
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This is our attempt to get politics out of the way. Last year, people couldn't get over the hurdle and couldn't tackle the one contentious issue. This will really help people in the future as issues become more and more contentious.
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I think the vast majority of people reading that statement believe it is political. I don't care what the politics are, it is not appropriate. It begins politicizing the forms that governments uses.
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I don't believe it is well thought through. I don't believe it is comprehensive.
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Absolutely, positively, from my point of view, it is DOA.
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The Agency of Natural Resources has real concerns about it, the League of Cities and Towns has real concerns about it.
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I believe we should debate things on the merits of policy and when people want to play politics that is fine.
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If the governor is trying to portray this, if you are for scholarships, you are against scholarships, you believe in Vermont and don't believe in Vermont, you believe in the future, you don't believe in the future. I believe those are just sound bites and I don't think that is really serious.
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The irony of the governor calling for a 6 percent increase in the budget while he is demanding that school budgets keep theirs to less than inflation is glaring.
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This will give us time to stop the train and have a chance to talk.
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It's still in the nice abstract philosophical phase but I think they are on to something that makes a lot of sense. Vermont has been very delinquent looking into technology.
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