Waste not

How does Republican gubernatorial candidate Roy Moore propose to deal with the $100 million shortfall that Alabama's Medicaid program will face in fiscal 2007? Simple: Just cut waste.

This, of course, marks the first time in the state's history when an Alabama politician has taken a courageous anti-waste stance, except for those hundreds of other times.

Fortunately, hundreds of millions of dollars of unnecessary spending is readily apparent in the state budget. For example, did you know that some counties actually have more than one school?