"The program typically costs taxpayers about $100 million a year"
Do you know how truly, truly, tired I am of pointing this stuff out day-after-day-after-day?
How many times I gotta put them up (note the pigs in the trough and where the cops sit compared with others)?
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Yeah, but it's the cops that are busting the budget because of a few extra million they earned for going to school. It's a 40-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM for crying out loud!
I'm not a big supporter of the police state, but if we are going to appropriate tax dollars for things I'd rather the local cops be at the top of the list. Screw the corporate welfare and legislative looting!
Of course, the pro-corporate, pro-elite, pro-richer Boston Globe never met a union it liked (save for ones that represent illegal immigrants).
"Police unions roll up votes to restore bonus; An effort to undo panel's $50m cut" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | April 21, 2009
Massachusetts police unions have won enough early support in the House to restore $50 million to the budget and protect generous pay bonuses for police officers who hold college degrees, securing a potential victory even as groups representing the homeless and disadvantaged struggle for funding.
And they wield the poor cudgel to boot!! How galling!!
YOU KNOW WHERE to go to GET the $$$$, Globe!!!!!
Police already have at least 81 representatives signed up to back their cause, a majority of the 160-member House, assuring a win during next week's budget debate unless House leaders try to reverse the tide. The so-called Quinn Bill, passed in 1970, awards thousands of dollars in extra money to police officers who have earned college degrees, and it has long been a source of complaints about unfair and expensive union benefits.
Message: Ejerkashen ain't really worth it, so let the police force be staffed by good ol' boy and corruption connections. But stay in school, kids.
Btw, whose complaining?
The rapid success by the powerful police unions, scored just a few days after the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled the $50 million cut Wednesday, stands in contrast to the uphill battle facing social-service advocates who are lobbying lawmakers to restore funding to fight homelessness, provide home care to the elderly, and feed the needy.
There they go again! Of course, when the guverner they love whacks the needy it's not his fault! I'm sick of this s***, folks!
A wide network that includes public health, social services, and other advocates is planning a rally tomorrow at the State House to push for more taxes and restored funding to their programs. Many lawmakers have been sympathetic to their pleas, but there has been nowhere near the groundswell that developed for the police unions....
Yeah, push the taxes again, Globe, even though this state is furiously against them.
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The Quinn bill, which was passed in 1970, supplies salary boosts to police officers who earn a law enforcement, criminal justice, or law degree. The officer, who must attend a college approved by the state, gets a 10 percent boost in his base pay for an associate's degree; 20 percent for a bachelor's degree; and 25 percent for a master's or law degree.
Yeah, what do cops need to know the law for? They are just the enforcers, right?
How do you enforce something you don't understand?
The program typically costs taxpayers about $100 million a year, split equally between the state and local communities where the officers work.
THAT'S IT? $100 MILLION? We palm poop that out in taxpayer dollars every month to the favored interests of this state!!!!
The impact of eliminating state funding would depend on individual union contracts. In some cases, it would mean that police officers would take a pay cut. But in others, local taxpayers would have to pick up the state's share and pay the full amount of the bonuses.
Yeah, CONTRACTS DON'T MATTER when it comes to LABOR!!
They only matter when it comes MANAGEMENT LOOTINGS, 'er, BONUSES!!!
And THIS STATE does WHAT other than SHOVEL MONEY to SPECIAL INTERESTS that somehow ALWAYS MAKE THEIR WAY back to ISRAEL!!!!!!
The union effort to restore the funding is providing a test of House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo's leadership. He has pledged to allow House members more latitude to decide issues for themselves, instead of attempting to strong-arm votes. His next move could signal what direction he and the Legislature will take this year as pensions and other special benefits for public employees have become the focus of public ire. DeLeo declined requests for comment yesterday.
Representative Charles A. Murphy, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, said that "we'll have a debate on the issue," but that other programs may have to be cut if the Quinn Bill funding is restored. "The practical effect is for us to fund $52 million; that's $52 million not going to, well, pick a program," Murphy said yesterday. "It all comes down to: 'How you going to pay for it, folks? What are you going to cut so you can restore it?' The whole thing has been a balancing act."
I've MADE MY POSITION QUITE CLEAR, sh***er!!!!!!
The number of lawmakers who signed onto the amendment demonstrates the political clout that police unions still carry. Within two days, the unions were able to get 80 House lawmakers, including several Republicans....
Of course, other types of clout are ignored by the agenda-pushing Zionist jewsmedia.
The amendments to restore funding to the Quinn Bill are among 978 filed by last Friday's amendment-filing deadline; the overall number of amendments, mostly requests for local funding for pet projects, was down about 35 percent from last year, reflecting more realistic expectations among lawmakers....
Wanna know another one?
"$90,121 to have 14 officers from the State Police Bomb Squad trained by Israeli security services"
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