Biennial budgeting better than fear

The Gazette seems to imagine ghosts lurk in Branstad's biennial budgeting process. Your editorial (April 16) expressed a desire for the budget to depend on people and not process.

You are kindly referred to our federal government. It is committed to people, not a process. The people (read politicians of both parties) have destroyed the time-honored process of timely annual federal budgets, and replaced it with people-centered political hanky-panky: scare the elderly, threaten to not pay our soldiers in the field, kick the poor under the bus, drag Planned Parenthood into the picture to polarize a fiscal issue, and those wonderful continuing resolutions ad nauseam.

Branstad's push for biennial budgeting seems brilliant in comparison.

Clay Fulknier

Cedar Rapids