Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting that Gov. Rendell is plotting to use money the feds kick back to Pa. to keep its share of the national roadway system passable to bail out the Port Authority of Allegheny County, which is Pittsburgh public transit system and is facing a $47 million deficit.
“You’re robbing Peter to pay Paul, but that may be the only choice I’m
left with,” Not-So-Fast-Anymore-According-To-Polling Eddie said.
Hmmm. So the only way to solve this mess according to those we voted to rule us is to let our national roads go to pot? Edddie says yes because wiser minds kept him from creating traffic bottlenecks on I-80 as a government revenue raiser.
How about this to solve this crisis:
- We cut salaries for all state workers until revenue increases which would be when Pennsylvanians start finding jobs, getting raises and buying things?
- We limit state pensions to $50,000 ex post facto (It would certainly be as moral as taxing a widow out of her home albeit those who vote themselves $313,000 annual pensions would disagree, I’m sure.
- We repeal strange and onerous laws that burden local taxing authorities such as Act 195, the 1970 law that prohibits school boards from replacing striking teachers and the passage of which saw a dramatic increase in school cost and a correspondingly dramatic decline in educational quality.
- We end prevailing wage requirements to allow public projects to be built in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
- We embrace the 21st Century in the conveyance of information.
It’s time we Pennsylvanians come to realize that neither our governor, nor our legislature, nor our state courts for that matter, look out for us. Their constituencies are themselves. They are not men and women of the people but men and women of the hacks,
And it’s about time we recognize that we are allowed to get mad about it.
It’s time for us to use a new broom to sweep the whole corrupt bunch to New Jersey–better yet, to Detroit.