"What "mean and parsimonious" gets you is crumbling parks, potholed roads, transit systems in crisis, libraries closed half the time, class sizes ballooning to unmanageable proportions and poverty growing like a cancer all the while. I understand the need for "honest and economical" as well, but conditions have reached the point where it's time to address the revenue side of the equation."
Smashing 'Demon Government'
Walker's small-government zeal resembles that of the prohibitionists
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/117438043.html
Many Walker supporters in/around Kight's Birthplace (Comanche County Texas).
Budget shortfall: Abilene, area libraries face the prospect of program cuts
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/mar/05/abilene-and-area-libraries-face-the-prospect-of/
