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Wborrowing : . - - - -- -- - - - those who need it; we want "^' Na'i uui "' �u� icai n largest ate uunhis we billion a year. That means hard its more money for schools dollars from the budget." largest state in history, choices that include all of the po- not and colleges; we.want to hire more just to balance the budget. No, cops, build more prisons and throw Now, what should be done?Here, litically protected programs: vast every petty get,for example: in short,is what I suggest: T and K-14 schools at the eve a thief and drug-user in ggest: N ' proposition 98 level, no ne jail; and we want good roads to *We created another two-year *Admit that we have a fake bud- i higher. g drive on, quality water to drink, and budget that hides most of the prob- get with a huge deficit — and work Freeze all state salaries until oal public libraries and parks to visit. leets. The game here is to promise to get rid of it. We should pay it off the budget is (really) balanced. Naturally, we also want lower taxes to pay our debts next year, not now. in two steps: First, extend the up- Freeze all state luring. I in- too That means we can end more per-bracket income-tax.increase ex- it it move this p p Subject the Department of Cor- y year, money we don't clusively to pay off the debt; second, rections to a rigorous budget re- But politicians — the governor, have. deny any cost-of-living increases in view. Also, we should find the l in the state Legislature and most other *We assumed the federal gov- health and welfare payments for a courage to revise the "three iud- elected officials — fear the cone- emment will give us $3 billion for il- like period of time, strikes" law to deal with violent Ige, quences of living within their legal immigrants. The assumption *Stop pretending that the feder- crime, but keep high-cost nonvio- ors, means. Take the current state bud- has never worked before, but if you al government will give us$3 billion lent criminals out of prison, Tress F. MATTHEWS H. MATTHEWS publishers S. MATTHEWS 'al Manager u , 76, is published Monday through Friday ` ' at 145 W. 10th St., Tracy, San Joaquin n 7 :ss P.O. Box.419, Tracy, Calif. 95378- 5-3030 and Stockton (209) 948-1131. the Watch s goings and reported the license plate i number to the Tracy police. r ` During one of my conversations with a police officer, he mentioned <. our neighborhood had proven to be K I a problem area in the past. Realizing the limitations of the Tracy Police Remember Whey? Department's sworn officers, my `j `j �+ roommate and I discussed looking emem into a Neighborhood Watch pro- The Mossdale area was awash with water in March 1938, water between the Mossdale and Paradise cut bridges. gram. when the levee on Paradise Cut broke, flooding some 2,- In all, some 25,000 acres were flooded in San Joaquin I inquired and was told I 000 acres. The flood halted traffic on Highway 50 (the County during March 1938. Later, major floods oc- would have to receive infor- I present route of Interstate 5), which was under 5 feet of curred in the same area in 1950 and 1955. mation about Neiehborhood