What's the CARBON FOOTPRINT on the UNNECESSARY TRIP, guv?
"State layoffs imminent, lieutenant governor says" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | October 11, 2008
Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray warned yesterday that layoffs to the state's workforce will be announced next week. Although the administration previously had said there would be impacts to state employees, it was the strongest indication that people would lose their jobs as a result of a decline in state revenues.
Let's start with the incumbent politicians who have looted this state!
Governor Deval Patrick has spent much of the week meeting with his staff and various interest groups, trying to figure out a solution to the budget crunch. As an indication of the depth of the crisis, Patrick indefinitely postponed a trip to Israel scheduled for November that was supposed to build ties for the state's biotech industry and other trade links.
I guess there is a silver lining in every cloud, 'eh?
But this weekend, Patrick will campaign in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Ohio for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. --more--"
Of course, "flushing . . . millions of dollars away supporting a highly profitable industry" when it comes to $300 million in taxpayer dollars for Hollywood is o.k., even as the price of a school lunch rises; paying $13 million for a computer software system that could have cost less than $3 million is all right because the winner was a close friend of the House speaker, even as my poorer-than-dirt district "has been struggling to close a $2 million budget gap."; the lottery shelling out "millions of dollars" for sports tickets for "lottery officials, their family members, and friends" is fine, even as schools are closing; making interest payments to banks to the tune of "a staggering $22 billion" for the Big Pit, as we call it around here, is required, even as bridges are neglected across the state; and again, paying off banks like UBS, who can "demand repayment of an additional $2 million a month beginning in January" while also receiving a "$179 million payment," while the state pension fund loses $1 billion dollars -- which still didn't stop the executive director from carving himself a nice "$64,000 bonus on top of his $322,000 annual salary."
Oh, and did I not mention the $1 BILLION dollar giveaway to the pharmaceutical corporations, even though "it's never been easy to turn a profit in biotech?" Flush that money away, too, taxpayer. Of course, the war looters were next in line for a handout. And should the state be appropriating money for a "multimillion-dollar reconstruction" of golf courses?
Nor is it RECKLESS to BORROW the STATE INTO OBLIVION so they can PAY INTEREST to BANKS while SITTING ON $2 BILLION DOLLARS!
Need one final insult, Mass. taxpayers?
See: Massachusetts Gives More Money to Hollywood
Yup, but they are going to CUT JOBS and SERVICES while telling us we need to keep the income tax!!
