A reminder to those who’ve followed the saga of the 2AM excessive raises our legislators bestowed on themselves, a week from tomorrow is the day to let them know that we’re tired of getting screwed during the night without a kiss, a cuddle, or even a backrub.
Many of them remain unrepentant, including House Speaker John Perzel (R-Phila) who said a lawmaker’s base salary of $81K plus a raise is not unreasonable when compared with the $50 to $60K immigrant workers earn milking cows in Lancaster County. According to the PA Farm Bureau, the average milker makes $18,700 per year on a 40 hour week, and some earn greater than $30K with overtime. Lancaster dairy cows, when asked to comment, said, “Moo-the-fuh??”
Today’s Patriot News revealed some new reports of excess at the top, including reasons why the judicial branch may be reluctant to reign in the legislative branch- they’re side by side at the slop table. Chief Justice Cappy wants us to understand that it’s reasonable for him to expense almost $37K back to the taxpayers, on top of his $176,800 salary, including $781.92 for three meals over two days. Don’t know how much he eats, but that’s a month’s worth of chow with money in hand remaining at my house.
Actually, I don’t think it’s misspelled. My understanding is that “Capital” is used for state capitals, and “Capitol” is only used for Washington D.C. But then, I’m from D.C., so I may be biased.
If not, there should be. If minor league baseball ever comes to York, the team should be named in honor of the state legislative and judicial branches-The Harrisburg Hogs.
This article (with pic) claims it’s a 20-foot pig. It’s red.
I hope they’ve drawn the line at street puppets. IMHO they really make a demonstration look tacky.
What the heck is this? As much as I favor unelecting most politicians, isn’t this the second thread in recent weeks promoting this purely local cause? I am if the understanding that the SDMB isn’t generally to be used to promote one’s pet issue. That is, not without administrative approval—and then, only sparingly.
Assuming each senator and representative gave themselves a $20,000 increase, that’s a total of 5 million dollars. Divided by the current PA population of 12 million and that’s 40 cents per person across the board.
Meanwhile, the Alaskan bridge to nowhere costs $233 million and, at around 295 million people in the US that’s approximately 80 cents per person.
I won’t bother calculating the number of taxpayers of each population. But in terms of total dollars, number of population taxed, and cost per person, the bridge to nowhere is higher.
Now, I’m not saying 5 mil is chump change. Nor am I saying you don’t have a right to be upset over this. Indeed you do and I think this kind of government spending is obscene. I’m only commenting that there seems to be a much larger campaign to deal with the first problem rather than the second, despite how much larger the second is as compared to the first.
To be fair to Unc, the SDMB rulesmay be germane to the OP.
Of course, it helps, if one is going to play Emeritus Mod (what former mods do in lieu of Junior Modding), to accurately cite the rules a poster may be infringing on, rather than giving everyone a misguided idea of what the rules are. And thereby, a misguided idea of how one might keep from breaking them. Let me quote:
I’ve read this passage a few times, and it seems to take on a different meaning each time, so I won’t even go into what I think it might mean; I’d surely get it wrong. But if I wanted to know if/how this rule applies to the OP, I’d ask an admin, rather than a Mod Emeritus. Especially because “pet” issues or “local” causes don’t seem to have much to do with what the rule says, no matter how you slice it.
