Reader: So, you say you want a resolution?

John "John D" Nolen Daigle
January 20, 2009
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January 22, 2009
John "John D" Nolen Daigle
January 20, 2009
Jan. 22
January 22, 2009

Dear Editor:

Wouldn’t it be nice if states and governing bodies had to make New Year’s resolutions along with the rest of us? And what if those resolutions had to be posted for all to see? Or what if the resolutions were proposed by the very citizens that were being governed?


Perhaps they would look something like this:


• Lose weight.

Cut the pork from every bill; dedicate the next three legislative sessions to repealing bills rather than writing new ones; and eliminate every pet project, useless commission and mind-numbing bureaucrat from the government rolls.


• Eat less and properly.


Reduce taxes and make them fair, uniform and understandable; prosecute any public servant looking to line his own pockets at the public’s expense; and initiate a hiring and budget freeze.

• Get more sleep.

Have legislative sessions every two years rather than annually; propose, consider and pass FEWER laws; and don’t do anything outside jurisdictional and constitutional bounds.

• Stop smoking, drinking and other vices.

Stop smoking (all substances); stop drinking (at least on the lobbyist’s dime); and stop cheating on the wife, abusing the public and breaking the law.

I can dream can’t I?

David Simpson,

Mandeville