When the Blind Lead the Blind

Now that you've seen how Oregon's economy has been "stimulated" by the infusion of  2.2 Billion borrowed  Dollars, the great majority of which went to programs already spending taxpayer dollars, a question remains:  Why did we "need" to raise taxes via measures 66 and 67?  Wasn't 2.2 Billion Dollars enough to get us out of a financial hole?  Wasn't that the alleged purpose of the "stimulus?"
Perhaps spending money on the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal office building to make it "green" by covering exterior walls in ivy does little to solve a sagging economy,  particularly when one realizes that ivy will decimate the structure of said walls:  that's why we currently spend millions of tax dollars annually to REMOVE IVY from local trees, walks, and BUILDINGS.
Therein lies the fundamental flaw with such "nanny-state" giveaways of YOUR money:  any influx of cash to a left-leaning government will be answered with ludicrous spending and the "need" for even more cash to fund even more chimeral "needs" of the self-serving government leviathan, whether it is "Billions for Bikers," or "Gender Realignment" healthcare benefits for unionized City employees.  Notice that they are no longer called "civil service" workers, they are Unionized Public Employees, no longer accountable to their benefactors, meaning YOU, the taxpayer. 
The State of Oregon teeters on the same financial precipice as California and a host of other liberal-run states:  contractual employee costs and perks, coupled with "touchy-feely" useless programs are bankrupting the economy.  The only sensible solution is to do what any private industry would do:  declare bankruptcy, cancelling all existing union contracts, including healthcare and retirement benefits, firing all union employees, and reformatting on a level playing field.  It worked for the Air Traffic Controllers during the Reagan Administration, and it will work in our current situation. 
Or, perhaps you would prefer seeing measures 66.2 and 67.2 recur every two years  until virtually every business is driven out of this Tax Hell state, but we will still retain the 700,000 or so cush retirement packages now bankrupting all of us.  Remember Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound" describing NAFTA?  You know, when Mexico got a few hundred formerly American manufacturing plants, from Taylor Guitars to Ford Motors, and we got 12 million drug "mules" in return.  By Grebthar's Hammer, what a Bargain!
The time has come, and is indeed well past, for us to "retire" many of our spendthrift politicians, from Sam "Ben Dover" Adams in Portland to "Sleepy Ted" Kulongoski in Salem, to the liberal spenders in D.C. such as Reid, Pelosi, Merkley, Wyden, Schrader, and Wu.  Especially Wu.
Lock and Load, voters.  November 2010 is growing near.  Time to retool America.