Does the PIGGISHNESS EVER STOP for the STINK ELITES?!?!
"Judicial, political pay hikes suggested; But leaders reject the timing of raises" by Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | June 20, 2008
A special panel today will recommend large pay raises - some up to 70 percent - for the state's top politicians and judges, but the board's report was immediately rejected by high-ranking leaders as unacceptable in the current economic climate.
The five-member independent compensation review board, set up by the Legislature last year, said judges deserve a raise of 25 percent, to $160,000. It said the House speaker and Senate president should receive a similar rate of pay, which would be an increase of 70 percent for them. It also called for pay hikes for the governor, lieutenant governor, and others. Governor Deval Patrick's yearly paycheck, for example, would rise from $147,000 to $175,000, a 19 percent increase.
Did you get a 70% RAISE this year?
The entire package of raises - which the Globe reviewed yesterday and will be publicly unveiled today - would cost $13.3 million a year.
Yeah, we've got nothing better to spend that money on!
Not like schools are closing or anything.
Better off giving it to rich actors and corporate favorites.
The proposed hikes were based on a systematic review of salaries paid to top officials in states across the country. But the very politicians who would benefit said yesterday that they would not endorse the proposal.
With the state facing a budget deficit of more than $1 billion, home foreclosures rampant, and gas prices topping $4 a gallon, it would send the wrong message, they said.
Translation: We'll sneak it through later when no one is looking!!!!
Patrick, whom aides said was always cool to the idea of pay raises, was out of state yesterday....
Yes, the paper is STRANGELY SILENT on the GOOD GUV today.
I WONDER WHY:
"On Thursday morning, Patrick will make the two-hour drive north, to Hollywood, to meet with a handful of studios.... After the meeting in Hollywood, Patrick plans to fly to Chicago to meet with other Democratic governors and Senator Barack Obama."
Of course, the Zionist-controlled Globe wouldn't want to draw attention to those events, would they? What with not covering the POLITICS, hey? PRO-McCain through and through!
And they only pimping Patrick because he is servicing their interests!!!!
Why weren't there big features on his Hollywood and Chicago trip after the Globe pummeled us all week with biotech, huh?
Something a stinkin'!?
And look at the Globe HIDE THIS!!!!!
A major concern among Beacon Hill leaders was the spark that such raises would give to the petition drive to repeal the state's income tax, which provides 40 percent of the revenues for the budget, according to sources who have been in discussions with political leaders. A coalition led by the state's Libertarian Party leaders say it has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. The repeal question was barely defeated in 2002...."
Ooooooooooh, so they don't want their TIT TAKEN AWAY!!!
The legislators aren't looking out for the suffering citizen -- they are WORRIED about the TAXPAYER TEET!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'LL BE VOTING FOR REPEAL THIS TIME!!!
Back then I was a STOO-PID LEFTY who DIDN'T KNOW A DAMN THING!!!
As I have discovered -- much to my chagrin -- is that this government is nothing but a bunch of LYING LOOTERS!!!!!!
Hey, I didn't want to believe it; however, as the evidence builds you find it is the TRUTH!
