[NEohioPAL] Libraries

[Tom Burnett]

You will make no impact at all unless your "Don't cut off the  
libraries!" is accompanied by some viable suggestion as to what to do  
to generate that money. Raising taxes in a down economy is a bad  
idea, so you're going to have to suggest which budget item or items  
should be cut to keep that $200+ million coming to the state's  
libraries.

Cut Medicaid? Close all the state parks? Close prisons and put the  
convicts into crowded cells at the other prisons, or release hundreds  
or thousands of them? Cut aid to the schools? To colleges and  
universities?

I use my library a great deal and have always voted in favor of  
library tax issues but, frankly, aid to the state's 251 public  
libraries would rank below any of those things mentioned above.

On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:52 AM, neohiopal-request at listserve.com wrote:

>
>                              URGENT
>              ACT NOW to SAVE OUR LIBRARIES
>
>
>    Governor Strickland proposes to fill Ohio's $3.2 billion  
> shortfall in the
> state budget by eliminating $200+ million from the Public Library  
> Fund over
> the next two years.  His proposal will have a drastic impact on all  
> 251 public
> libraries in Ohio and on Columbus Metropolitan Library in particular.
>
>   This proposal by the Governor cuts library funding by 50%  
> beginning July 1,
> 2009.
>
>   We only have days to have an impact.
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