SAVE OUR LIBRARIES! (part 2)
2009 June 24
I have another link to share with you all.
I cannot stress enough how important this issue is. Our libraries are vital institutions and well, WE NEED THEM!!!!!!
Please click HERE to get involved. It doesn’t take much effort, honest.
Send a letter, call the senator, contact the govenor, participate in a rally. DO SOMETHING!!! It’s just too important not to!
At the risk of being stoned, I want to play Devil’s advocate for a second…
If we save the libraries, what then would you have the Governor cut? Ohio has little to no surplus from last year and with even the most basic costs to do business like electricity, water, and gas going up every month, there has to be soemthing trimmed. It’s the ugly picture of the economy we’re in. If not libraries then it will be the services that help abused children that get cut (a potential we’re dealing with in our own county right now if we choose to fund libraries), or what about unemployment benefits, or roads, or on and on and on.
Of course you know I’m on the same side as you in the absolute importance of libraries, and I highly commend you for your activism in this. I bet this has to be one of the worst, scariest, sickening times to be in leadership of anything government related. I don’t know what the answer is, and I’m scared what will be cut next.
(Sorry to be antagonistic, it was the first thought that popped into my head.)
Indeed, you raise valid points Sam,it’s been a scary year for many people and myself. I enjoy going to the library every week and I see many unemployed people (like myself) using the computers to file unemployment,job searches,borrow free movies,music and books to help ease the time being off from work. In away without the library it will hurt us unemployed people too, but at the same time,I don’t want them to cut our benefits either. *Sigh*