Thanksgiving has just passed and Christmas and Hanukkah will begin on the same day. Have you bought or made presents under the tree if you are Christian, and will you give coins to your children if you are Jewish?
Christians tell each other “Merry Christmas” and Jews say Happy Hanukkah. I am for all people who wish peace.
I wonder if the cartoon character Grinch will steal Christmas or will people in the highest position in our government try to emulate the Grinch? Are Inslee, Ferguson and those leaders in the state Legislature responsible for what is happening to the drastic change to our government? Or are we responsible for at least the drastic change and why? Do we admit that 60% of the registered voters in our fair state failing to vote could be the biggest problem?
If I were a betting man, (I rarely bet more than a thin dime, which is no longer made of silver), I’d bet that most of the problem is with the 60% who didn’t vote, an increasing problem because they believe their freedom is free. It isn’t.
What, may you ask, is the former oldest independent candidate for governor Frank Dare complaining about? I’m complaining about the 60% of the registered voters who failed to post their ballot in time. They don’t believe that their vote will count. Or they find some other inane non-reason to not vote.
Pressing on, reading the recent commentary by the honorable state Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, brings up many problems I found as a counselor level two at Maple Lane School for 11 months. I was waiting for a better position with the Department of Social and Health Services in Olympia around 1975.
Maple Lane had cottages where the boys and older teenage inmates were serving time from two to four years, depending on their offense. Of the 26 juvenile inmates, every crime was committed from repeat theft to robbery with a weapon to murder.
Green Hill School was where the oldest, most unreliable, dangerous criminals were serving their time. Neither was a “school.” Green Hill had inmates in separate cells. They were there until they reached 18, then would be sent to prison. I bring that up, because Inslee and Ferguson had held their positions for 12 years, eight before 2019 when they decided to spend our hard earned taxes on their illegal aliens by declaring Washington a “sanctuary state” and the “Keep Washington Working” illegal laws. We as citizen voters in Washington state were not given the opportunity to review or vote on how to spend our taxes.
In essence, they stole our money rather like the Grinch, but in reality it caused a huge budget problem. Fast forward to today. We’re still faced with the “overdraft” to be paid back with “interest.”
Braun tried to reason with Inslee about where to put “his kids” but as usual Inslee has tried to weasel his way out of the mess. And Ferguson? Read the voter’s pamphlet.
Frank Dare
Olympia
