Gum as metaphor | The Kentucky edition
Chewing gum tree, originally uploaded by Sugar-T.
Larry Dale Keeling, a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, weighed in today on the state’s budget crisis in his column “Teetering budget would crash without new revenue.”
He reviewed the various options proposed by the state governor, which include cigarette taxes, casinos and retiring state workers, but in the middle of his column, he paused for the kind of metaphor AndrewsGumWorld loves best, one involving chewing gum. Here’s what he wrote:
If the wads of chewing gum holding this budget together do start to come unglued in the next few months, or if the impact of the deep cuts in services prove so painful that even the Republican-controlled Senate recognizes the need for more revenue…
(Incidentally, in the interest of truth in blogging and all, the wad of gum pictured above is not, in fact, Kentucky state budget related gum, but is actually a sneaky opportunity to slip in one more photograph of a gum tree; this one is from the Coyoacan district of Mexico City; many thanks to Sugar-T for his incredible shot from Flickr.)