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By GEORGE BOWLES There must be times when Gov. Charles S. Robb feels like the farmer who had the stubborn mule. The farmer solved his problem by hitting the mule over the head with a twoby-four when he wanted to get its attention.
While it is unlikely the governor will resort to anything quite so drastic, he is taking extraordinary steps to alert Virginians to the increasingly grim fiscal plight facing the state government.
In the view of Gov. Robb and his budget planners, the Commonwealth’s financial crunch is the most serious since the Great Depression 50 years ago. His problem is one of communicating its gravity to the citiznes, and of preparing them for the painful corrective actions which almost certainly will have to be taken.
Some money-saving measures have already been decreed.
The governor ordered a selective five-percent cut in state spending into effect on July 1. This cut was supposed to yield some S55 million, about enough to cover the originally anticipated shortfall in state revenues.
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