There is only one goddess Gaia and Al Gore is her only prophet...

[kandrathe]

So your solution is to just fire them now and hope people do the right thing?

When you have limited means, you make choices among the priorities you have. If the DNR and moose are an important priority, then we should fund them. But, perhaps something else needs to be cut instead, like bringing the teacher to student ratio down from 20:1 to 14:1. Or, not giving away knee and hip replacements to senior citizens. I think it is too limiting to say we should never run a deficit, but it should be a very short term emergency when we do.