Discourse: The Budget Cuts: Who Do You Blame, and What Can We Do?
 Whim Readers
RU has been battered hard by the budget cuts handed down
by Gov. Mark Warner, angering many students, faculty, staff, and
administrators. But who is to blame for this fiscal crisis to begin with? Some
people say Warner is too quick to cut education, but others say that former
Gov. Jim Gilmore and his constituents mismanaged funds so much that our present
governor really didn’t have a choice. Whim asks you, the reader: Who do you
blame? What should be done differently to solve the problem? What’s being done
right? How well is RU, in your eyes, complying with new fiscal guidelines? Use
the feedback form below to post on the topic at hand.
Name: Jeff
Comments:
I second both motions. I think Jim Gilmore should work at whatever business opens next beside Subway on Main Street. It would seem whatever is run there is managed better than the way he ran this state.
Name: Nikki
Year: Senior
Major: Copy Editor
Comments:
Well said, Christina- Would you write for us here at Whim?
Name: Christina
Comments:
Who do I blame for Virginia's fiscal crisis? Without a doubt, Jim Gilmore and his criminally irresponsible bumper sticker campaign platform, "No Car Tax" - a siren song that led hordes of unthinking lemming voters to jump off an economic cliff.
Mark Warner is doing the best he can, and now that the elections are over maybe he can finally do what really needs to be done: raise taxes. People don't realize how modest Virginia's taxes are. And there are some types of taxes that could be increased by a few cents to raise millions of dollars! So let's get on with it.
And while we're at it, let's find Jim Gilmore and sentence him to collate documents in the General Assembly's bill room for the rest of his life.
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