Mea Culpea

First off I want to apologize to all our underpaid, under-benefited, under appreciated municipal workers for even considering the possibility of asking them to take any "steps backward" with respect to the pay and benefits. I now realize that their bosses, the taxpayers of OREGON, must make ever effort to keep their current and future standard of living at its ever increasing arc, even if that means taking on more and more crushing taxes or state debt. When municipal unions were allowed to come into existence we the taxpayers of OREGON obviously took a sacred oath to never allow our elected leaders or our municipal employees to ever have a standard of living that was less then their bosses. All of the foregoing not withstanding, it is the taxpayers of OREGON duty to live up that oath, and to bankrupt ourselves and the state if we have to keep that promise.