I was reading Chancellor Rogers letter in response to Governor Gibbons' plan to explore where five percent budget cuts could be made by state agencies if there were a future revenue shortfall. For the most part the plan sounds like an exercise of "just in case." For the most part Rogers letter is a long winded "no."

For the readers' information, the letter contains several statements which make no grammatical sense, which for a person in Rogers' position is laughable, especially as computers have grammar check.

If you want to know why Nevada education stinks, one reason may be the people in charge aren't the best, even if they are some of the wealthiest.

Here are some of Jim Rogers' grammatically confusing points:

A budget reduction plan of this magnitude would require new policies, the Board of Regents would have to declare a financial emergency, which requires consultation among the Regents, institutions, and faculty. (a run-on sentence, at the very least)

The concept of utilizing the rainy day fund, which has the effect of spreading the pain of any budget reduction among all of the citizens and agencies of the State, would eliminate the reduction your request. (This sentence just doesn't make any sense; dipping into the rainy day fund is supposed to cause pain? I thought using it was to avoid pain and budget reduction. Faulty logic here, Jim.)

Reducing the funding of education will make our ability to keep our best high school graduates from going out of Nevada to college. (Simply, huh?)

I indicated that I thought we were headed for a TRAIN WRECK if we did nothing to reverse that trend to provide the quality graduates and trained workers that Nevada needs to sustain growth. (I believe he meant reverse the trend and begin to provide quality graduates and not reverse the trend to provide them. But I guess I shouldn't try to guess what Rogers means when he so obviously makes more money than I do and so more people listen to him.)

The State has extensive sources of new revenue. (Name one, Jim, other than hoping businesses want to donate, or do you mean...RAISE TAXES!)

It just figures that the man who wrote this is himself a product of Las Vegas High School, although circa 1956. I'm still trying to figure out how he got all his other degrees or did someone confuse confusion with brilliance and B.S.