Here is to your Saltwater licence!

[STEVE IN MASS]

This is part of an e-mail I got today from someone who is running for Govenor of Mass:

BIG GOVERNMENT LANGUAGE LESSON #1

The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Associated Press, State House
News Service, and the Boston ABC, NBC, and CBS TV Stations agree
with the State Legislature and Republican Governor Jane Swift:

Massachusetts Government faces a budget deficit.

Deficit. A favorite Big Government word. Deficit.

A gap between Big Government Spending and Big Government Taxes.

A Tax shortfall.

If a private citizen earns $40,000 a year and spends $50,000 a year,
he does NOT have a $10,000 earning deficit. He has a $10,000
over-spending problem.

If the Massachusetts State Legislature collects $22 Billion in Tax
funds and intends to spend $23.6 Billion, the politicians and the
media call this over-spending a budget deficit.

"What are we going to do about a $1.6 Billion state budget deficit?"
asks the politicians and media.

"What are we going to do about this year's $1.6 Billion in state
government over-spending?" ask the advocates of honest talk and
fiscal responsibility.

We stand for honest talk. Plain language.

Massachusetts government has an over-spending problem, not a
deficit problem.

Massachusetts politicians are over-spending, not under-taxing.

Over-spending, not a Tax shortfall.

Call the problem by its real name: over-spending. Then we can solve
the real problem.