Activists want to halt PA legislative ‘pork-barrel’ grants…
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G-d Bless Tim Potts! GO TIM GO!
Inspector Clouseau (aka Tom Corbett) will not protect us from this BS. It's up to leaders like Tim Potts and concerned and engaged citizens to make it known that we are ready, willing, able and ITCHING for another payraise-type revolution.
Go ahead. Raise taxes while there is $1 budgeted for WAM's or Economic Development. Go ahead. I double dog dare you.
The culture of corruption continues. Agree with Aces that those wanting it stopped are noble. It’s been around a long time. It’s going to continue, until we rise up against the corrupt. Not everyone is. Do we know who the good guys and bad guys are? No joke. Do we?
Because we do not know, we have to assume EVERYONE is a bad guy. We will lose comparatively few "good apples" and lose comparatively more "bad apples" in so doing. A good indicator may be which incumbents the party machines work to protect. Those people must be immediately suspect and removed at virtually any cost regardless of party affiliation.
REMEMBER: Sam Smith "served" on the conference committee that shoved the payraise down our throats. He should be target number one.
Tim Potts, Gene Stilp and Russ Diamond are all heroes as far as I'm concerned. No doubt there are others deserving of recognition in the fight against the steaming pile that passes for Pennsylvania politics. Dolley is right. Just vote them all out. We must drive down the rate of incumbency to have any hope of reforming government.
Hope these guys can gain a foothold on the beach-head with this action, but these entrenched career-minded politicians along with the party leadership on both sides of the aisle, aren't going to allow this to happen.
And if Corbett takes as much time looking into this as he is with BonusGate, we'll all be dead of old age before anything is discovered or done.
But good luck. I'm sure that if asked one-by-one, the majority of citizens within the commonwealth would want to put a stop to this practice.
The “grants” come from legislative leadership and are a way for them to control the rank and file members of both parties in the legislature.
There’s money we can definitely cut out of this year’s budget.
Yes, but those people who want to put a stop to these practices have to appear at the polls on election day or nothing changes.
Talk is cheap.
$110,000,000 in the last half of 2008! I think I'll request a grant. I've got stuff around my house I need to fix. Certainly out of 110 million our kind and benevolent state government can spare a few grand.
Is there a list available of who requested what so I can check up on my reps?
While this is a good place to start, we must not lose sight of the fact that there are far larger targets like the welfare problems that eat up a bigger piece of the pie.
funny, I didn't hear Dwight Evans talk about these
Ryan, educational waste is probably an even bigger piece of the pie. The spending just keeps chugging along, and the kids learn less and less. Nanny Pink is happy, and in complete control of the process. Few legislators are willing to risk her wrath.