Author Has Some Ideas for the Governor

To The Editor:
I would like to echo a point expressed by another resident concerning the cost of the governor’s suits. Mine has to do with the salary freezes in New Jersey. I have summarized my question concerning comments made by our governor in a past news interview on television. My comment is being made respectfully. I feel that the governor is doing what he believes is in the best interest of the state of New Jersey and its citizens, however that he is not open minded on what he is asking others to do and ignoring that he should also set the example and do what he is asking others to do.
I could not overlook the comment made by the governor on a television news interview, he was asking many state employees to freeze their salaries in view of the financial crisis in New Jersey as well as in other states. Would he be willing himself to take a pay cut or salary freeze for a month or two to help New Jersey’s economy?
The governor stated that it would be like apples and oranges and left it at that. I’d like to know what he meant by his answer to the question, that it would be like apples and oranges when he was asking for all government employees to help the state.
I feel, and so does my wife, (we are both disabled and we too are concerned about this economy) that if all the higher echelon in government would take a freeze in pay one time two months per year or pay periods that this would save the economy greatly.
The state could have saved on the cutting and carting away of the trees on the Garden State Parkway. Were other avenues explored by the state considering other ways of cutting the trees down and carting them away? Would they let the public being involved in other avenues of getting the job done?
ANTHONY SOLIS JR.
Rio Grande
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