Gov. Chris Gregoire has some big ideas for helping the state to balance its budget. Unfortunately, those ideas include axing a shit ton of services that mostly benefit the poor and the sick.Washington’s state budget currently stands with a gaping $5.7 billion hole over the next two years.In order to fill that hole Gregoire says she’s prepared to cut the state’s health insurance program for the poor, end state food stamp assistance and de-fund programs that help gifted but poor students go to college.The cuts she proposed would save about $1 billion through next June.The Seattle Times

reports late on Tuesday that Gregoire sent a letter to Olympia lawmakers saying:”I now need your help. Another round of across-the-board cuts will not get it done. There are only seven months left in the biennium, and delay will result in deeper cuts and additional harm. Frankly, we all have run out of time.”It’s unclear if she sent a separate letter to the state’s poor and sick people telling them that they may soon be kicked to the curb.