Carcieri to address budget deficit on live TV Wednesday
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri will unveil the details of his plan to close a $357-million current-year deficit in a live televised address Wednesday night. Carcieri will deliver the address at 7 p.m. on all three local network affiliates: WJAR Channel 10, WLNE Channel 6 and WPRI Channel 12. "Theses are truly extraordinary times. Rhode Island is facing unprecedented budget challenges that will require many difficult decisions to resolve," Carcieri says in a statement. "My supplemental budget plan will include many hard choices necessary to bring the budget back into balance and to put the state backon the right path," the governor states. The proposal, which will represent a significant rewrite of the current-year budget, is expected to touch tens of millions of dollars in local aid. Beyond that, it remains unclear. 
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here it comes more new taxes which will surely bring no new business here.and more for sale signs will be put in front of houses.rhode island politicans should actually cut taxes.more companies would come here and more families would want to live here.look out also the children and the elderly will get squeezed even more.certain groups dont get to feel pain.the governor and his rich friends.teachers-state workers and the unions the cause of this mess will feel little or no pain.
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Can't speak for the "Don" and his rich friends, but the budget is not being broken by teachers nor state workers. Enough bashing teachers and state civil servants. You could cut the entire state municipal and state work force and it would not even make a dent in this budget deficit, which I assume the "Don" and his media people will never tell you. Ask the "Don" how much the salaries and medical benefits cost to include him and his staff and then look at the deficit. But, I guess even then you would not be happy till all teachers and state employees are at a point where they will be just as ineffective as the "Don" and his appointees are. Enough Carcierism, he is just letting all malcontents such as yourself run with the belief that teachers and state employees are the cream of the crop. Get with it, get rid of the "Don" and his republican cronies that got us here in the first place.
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