THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, January 23, 1995               TAG: 9501190016
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   29 lines

CUT, CUT, CUT

Regarding ``Nowhere left to cut'' (news, Jan. 6):

Local civic leaders and educators are squealing like stuck pigs over Governor Allen's plan to reduce the size of state government.

The elections are over. The protesters should calm down. There isn't enough money to pay for the programs the people voted for and to continue the wasteful policies of the past.

If the educators need more money, the presidents and faculty of the colleges can take a cut in salary. Their salaries seem awfully high when measured against their product's inability to read a bus schedule.

Public radio and public TV do not need taxpayers to fund their liberal line. The arts commission does not need taxpayers to fund a statue of Jesus in a bottle of urine. It isn't art; it's garbage, and everyone knows it except those elitists who think they know more than we do.

R. D. STEPHENS

Norfolk, Jan. 7, 1995 by CNB