Rather than go through our annual wrangle over the budget, we may need a completely new approach. Instead of managing the politics and greed built into the old budget, we should start with a clean sheet of paper and decide what we really need, and then what we want. A suggestion to the governor would be to put together a team of responsible Connecticut residents (taxpayers), and ask them to construct a new budget. My guess is that it will be a budget that provides what we need with a surplus.