Gov. Deval Patrick’s economic-stimulus program is looking more like a Save-A-Hack telethon with a federal cash infusion going mostly to save jobs on the government payroll.
With pink slips flying in the private sector and the state unemployment rate at 9.4 percent, a Herald review has found that more than 70 percent of jobs “created or retained” by state stimulus spending last quarter were government jobs.
Mind you, this is par for the course for "Cadillac" Deval. This is the governor who has added over a thousand public-sector jobs while the private sector lays off folks left and right. It's not surprising that Patrick would be interested in saving public sector jobs; having folks dependent on the government is about the only prayer this guy has of getting re-elected.
It's amazing how tone-deaf a politician can be. Patrick has already come under fire for adding some 3,400 jobs to the state payroll, for raising the MA sales tax to 6.25% (from 5%), for proposing that gasoline have $0.19/gallon in taxes added to it, for his shiny new Cadillac, the drapes in his office, and his wife's $72K/year Chief of Staff. There's very little he's done to garner praise of any sort, apparently relying on his charm and/or cozy relationship with Øbama to help him along.
Here's hoping that Deval finds himself among the first wave of single-term Democrats come December...
That is all.
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One Hopes... but he has "bought" a buncha votes... sigh...
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