Oh, and I guess we can't pay police to protect us because the state is too busy paying for corporate TV commercials!!
"Police protests force work crews to abandon sites; Officers upset over law curbing use of paid details" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | October 4, 2008
Police union members upset with the governor's new rules allowing some roadway projects to go on without police details protested at two work sites yesterday, forcing state workers to abandon the projects on the first day under the new regulations.
A Massachusetts Water Resources Authority crew planning to do routine sewage work through a manhole in an Everett roadway decided to leave after some 30 protesters appeared with signs and said they would prefer that the crew not go ahead without a paid police detail.
The crew then went to another roadway work site in Revere, where protesters also appeared. The rule changes have been opposed by police, many of whom supplement their incomes with tens of thousands of dollars annually by keeping watch over and directing traffic at construction sites.
Question: Why should CORPORATIONS and FAT CAT FAVORITES of the state get MILLIONS in taxpayer giveaways while the cops are SINGLED OUT for a FEW THOUSAND?!!! We KNOW where YOU are coming from, Boston Globe!!!!
The policy will mean annual savings to the state of between $5.7 million and $7.2 million, according to administration estimates. Police union officials - angry over what they say was unfair treatment during the administration's drafting of the law - said they are planning more pickets at state construction projects. --more--"
GOOD!! If I SEE ONE, I am going to STOP and tell the protesters I SUPPORT THEM!!!
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 shellling 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?
PFFFFFFTTTT!?
