fish monger

You asked me; "So, how do you feel in regards to Smalma's last question on maintenance funds?"

Well I guess that WDFW must do what you or I must do! That's called "living within your budget"! Did you ever think how much that huge building cost us that they call their office in Olympia? Did they really need a new building that size? Or was it just WDFW's thought; "build it and they will come". . . new jobs for WDFW and more!!

Sometimes government just needs to clean their own house and quite whining about not having enough funds and money. They never ever have enough money!! Maybe some of them need to get out in the real world for a while and compete for their jobs like most of must do. Maybe if the state employees had to buy their own heath insurance instead of just paying pennies to our dollars, they would learn to "expect less" funding from us. Maybe if they could wait a year or two to buy new equipment, or trucks like most of us have to do, they could save us even more.

Maybe if they would quite costing the public so much in wages and benefits increases, we would have more money to spend on improvements that would benefit both the fish and us. Why must it always be the "other public" that must fork up the money for their jobs and their needs?

If it was me, I would turn the game enforcement over to the "local law enforcement" and forget about spending millions of dollars on these "special officers" One thing for sure, bureaucrats knows how to spend money! I think it's up to WDFW to breakdown there budget in a way that the "average sportsmen" can understand it and show how much actually comes into WDFW, and then show exactly what that money actually went out to. Once that is made available in a simple readable form, we can then see what needs or doesn't need additional funding.

As far as charging new lunch fees, that issue had already been figured into our licenses a long time ago! That was just an excuse for adding the stupid new permit that we must now have. It appears to me that it is just another way that WDFW robs Peter to feed Paul! The money goes into a WDFW "general fund" and then they use it for whatever they feel like using it for. We didn't need it before the special permits came out, so that tells me that they are using it for something else that is now costing them more money to do. So why hasn't WDFW been more open with us, and told us the real truth why they now need more funding?

If our state agencies are in finical trouble now, they have no one else to blame for it then themselves! It's just like you or I, if you don't have the money, you don't write the check!!!

If you do, you will surly wind up just like California with a 38 billion deficit.

Good or bad, you asked for my opinion and now you got it!

Cowlitzfisherman