Cut state salaries-not services

Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting state salaries by 5 percent to save $470 million to balance the budget. This is in addition to the two-day furlough state workers are taking already, but why only 5 percent? A 10 percent cut of $940 million could save $898 million needed for health and social services, home care for the disabled and Adult Health Care. The 213,603 state employees are the highest paid best pensioned state workers in the nation. An additional 10 percent cut in their pay pales with the 100 percent cut faced by 2 million unemployed Californians in the real world of the private sector. Government not tax payers has caused the budget crisis. Since 1996 tax revenues have increased 5.6 percent annually, yet state spending increased 5.9 percent. If spending simply equaled the 4.9 percent increase in population and inflation, the state would have a surplus. Instead Democrats and Republicans caved to unions, lobbyists and special interests. The number of state workers increased by thousands, and those with six-figure incomes doubled to 15,000, and salaries of the legislators increased from $99,000 to $116,000. The tax and spend politicians that betrayed their trust did not invade Sacramento and seize power; they were elected by we the people. If we elect more like them we will get more taxes, more spending, and ultimately more cuts in services to everyone. This can also be said for the Supervisors, Congress and White House.

"You ain't seen nothing yet."

Editor Remember the 1974 Rock song; “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” This is what a community organizer who whines about water boarding can cause his country in just four months as President and Commander in Chief. If the CIA lied to Congress about water boarding, as Mrs. Pelosi contends, the CIA liars should be prosecuted; it a crime to lie to Congress. If the CIA did not lie, then Mrs. Pelosi should resign as Speaker for falsely impugning the CIA. If Mrs. Pelosi knew about waterboarding, she should be prosecuted with other Democrats and Republicans in Congress who also knew, and the Bush officials that authorized torture, including the president and vice president. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.“ Meanwhile, al Qaeda can't stop laughing Mike DeNunzio CHAIRMAN SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY

Girlie man calls DSaunders "harpie"

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE EDITOR The Chronicle allowed a letter writer to call its distinguished syndicated columnist, Debra Saunders, "a right wing harpie." (May 19) I’m sure the Chron will allow me call the letter writer a "left wing girlie man" for whining about water boarding of three terrorists. The so called "barbaric technique" thwarted a plan by al Qaeda to fly an airliner into the 73 story Library Tower in Los Angeles, the ninth-tallest building in the United States- and murder thousands as it did on September 11, 2001. Thank you Ms. Saunders for bringing professional balance to the editorial pages of the Chronicle. Mike DeNunzio

MD LETTER CHRON WON"T PRINT

SFRA Colleages, The Chronicle refused to publish this response to their Op Ed that bashed Republicans. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Editor Republican Bill Bagley laments the “withering” of the Republican Party (Chronicle, Open Forum, May 13) Mr. Begley, is a former state legislator who also served in the Ford administration. He speaks for the same "country club" Republicans that bemoaned the election of Ronald Reagan, and rushed to convert their wine cellars to bomb shelters when the “cowboy" president told Gorbechev to tear down the Wall. In the 2008 election they recoiled at Governor Sara Palin who refused to abort (kill) her child diagnosed with Down Syndrome, and they smugly impugned 58 million Americans that opposed Barak Obama as being “Nascar, bible toting, gun nuts.” These RINOs who now are preaching about withering of the GOP helped elect an incompetent Commander in Chief that demeans America with shameless apologies and undermines national security with an “overseas contingency operation” in place of an aggressive war on terrorism. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 for one reason–to say no to slavery. Today it says no to enslaving America with excessive ta xes and spending, mediocre socialized medicine, open borders, amnesty and sanctuary cities-and appeasement. It takes a spine to say no. MIKE DENUNZIO CHAIRMAN SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY