What Should We Cut

What are the top ten things the Governor should eliminate from the budget? Big and Small?

First thing I would cut is symbolic--I would sell the Governor's State Mansion on Mackinaw Island. Has its own staff of cooks and maintenance people. In today's world we do not need to provide a Governor with a vacation home worth millions and staff it with hundreds of thousands of staff.

Next I would sell the Governor's Mansion in Lansing. It too has its own paid state staff of cooks and maintenance people. Give every Governor a housing allowance.

Both a bad symbols of an old state budget. elimination of both won't solve the budget crisis--not even close. BUT both are good symbols of an old world and we need to tell the people that it is time to change, time for even the Governor needs to "feel the fiscal pain"