Nothing in the works

Mass. losing more jobs after election

by Michael Graham
Monday, Nov. 15, 2010

You’ll be happy to know that your government is hard at work spending your money. It’s the taxpayers who are left unemployed.

In 2008, Gov. Deval Patrick promised that he could create hundreds of thousands of biotech jobs in Massachusetts if we’d just give him $1 billion of our money for projects supported by his pals (and political donors) in biotech and Big Pharma. The Democrat-dominated Legislature gave him his wish and now Beacon Hill is throwing around $100 million to “create jobs.”

And how’s that workin’ out for ya? Here’s the headline from Tuesday’s Boston Herald:

“Biotech aid falls flat.”

“The state’s $6 million handout to biotech giants Genzyme Corp. and Biogen Idec didn’t prevent those firms from issuing 270 pink slips in the Bay State last week - raising doubts about Gov. Deval Patrick’s ambitious plan to create 250,000 life sciences jobs in 10 years,” Jessica Van Sack reported. She added, in a moment of profound understatement, that Patrick’s promise of a quarter-million new jobs “now seems even more far-fetched.”

Yeah, well “fetch” this: In the week since Patrick was re-elected, we’ve already lost more than 1,000 private-sector jobs, and more cuts at companies like Raytheon are on the way. Interestingly, the Associated Press reports that Patrick was asked about the upcoming cuts at Raytheon in the last days of the campaign, and rumors that he’d asked them to hold off until after Election Day.

“Patrick bristled when asked if he requested Raytheon delay any terminations, saying the company was adding jobs,” the AP reports.

Whatever really happened - and Raytheon’s smart enough to know the value of sucking up to government in a Democratic duchy like Massachusetts - it’s too late. Patrick’s back, the jobs are gone and voters stuck themselves with the tab.

It was embarrassing enough reading reports about “stimulus” jobs that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to “create.” But thanks to our government geniuses, we’re spending money to lose jobs. Instead of generating “green jobs” we’re passing out pink slips.

The Obama administration is a big fan of a California “green jobs” company called Solyndra, for example. So the O-bots gave this politically-connected company $535 million, but instead of adding thousands of net jobs, Solyndra’s actually cutting its payroll by around 150 people. That’s $3.6 million per job lost.

Anyone remember the good ol’ days before Patrick and Barack Obama, when companies laid off their own employees for free?

Meanwhile back in Boston, Mayor Tom Menino dumped $10.5 million of local tax dollars into the W Hotel and Residences project, inspiring yet another headline from Tuesday’s Herald:

“W woes could cost Hub $10M.”

“The city of Boston could be out $10.5 million if the Prudential Insurance Co. of America wins bankruptcy court approval to foreclose on the new W Hotel & Residences,” the Herald reported. That’s more tax money wasted and more jobs lost.

Ah, but there’s one part of the economy that’s growing. This headline from yesterday’s USA Today says it all:

“More federal workers’ pay tops $150,000.”

The number of federal workers earning $150K has doubled under Obama. His new plan? To give them an across-the-board raise.

I’ve got one more headline for you to ponder:

“Mass. Dems sweep state elections.”

Until that headline changes, nothing else will.

It was in June of '08 when Gov. Patrick signed a $1 billion
bill to biotech giants and promised it would create hundreds
of thousands of biotech jobs. Instead the company
announced to cut 270 jobs just last week.

Donnie Howie Michael Bill

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Massachusetts, the land of misfit toys

Republicans cleaned House, but not in Massachusetts

by Donnie Boston
EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Nov. 8, 2010

I told you so.

Republicans last week cleaned House across the country and changed the balance of power in Congress in historic fashion. But people here voted differently, of course. By no means I expected this state to turn Republican, but with a little luck I was hoping for some key seats to at least change hands.

Now that you, the Beautiful People have spoken, here is a brief look on some of the key issues you will face over the next four years.

Sales Tax on Alcohol: You voted 'yes,' which means you don't want to pay an extra 6.25 percent on alcohol. Though, here's a perfect example on how your elected officials go against the will of the voters right after you re-elect them. They enjoy overriding anything you repeal on the ballot. In the past, you always enjoyed getting hosed anyways.

Sales Tax and Use Tax: You voted 'no' which means you like paying a 25 percent higher tax on anything the government can get their hands on. It doesn't even matter if it's candy, sugar or the works. And it's death to the person who informs you that your taxes got significantly raised across the board last time you chose not to repeal it.

Gov. Deval Patrick: You chose to give Patrick another four years in office, which means you agree with him that your state is on the mend and on the move. It doesn't matter that your state lost 24,000 jobs over the past two months and unemployment has nearly doubled under his watch. You even put aside that your governor has the worst record than any governor who has ever served your state. You are satisfied with this.

Also, you enjoy picking up all the tabs for illegal aliens who continue to arrive in your state illegally under Patrick. And you simply have no problem with these lawbreakers using up all your resources that you are fully paying for.

Under Patrick, you don't even mind that the unemployed keep getting rewarded, like being able to cash in on HD TV's, smokes, booze and the works by using their EBT debit cards. It's really no big deal that your tax dollars provides such luxury for these individuals and that your governor refuses to act on resolving the issue.

Barney Frank: You are pleased that Barney, Chairman of the Housing Finance Committee, supported housing policies that wrecked the national economy. You gave him another term in office even though he caused people to lose their homes and fortunes by lying to them on how their stocks would do good moving forward.

Martha Coakley: You gave Martha another term in office as your attorney general, which means you appreciate the good job she is doing. Never mind that she doesn't understand what illegal means as your attorney general. You even agreed with her when she said during her campaign that it's not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts. And you also don't mind that she should never investigate any one of her party members who breaks the law, because she depends on their vote when her seat is up for re-election.

Enough of this already. You get the picture that your state, again are going to be filled with these types for another term, thanks to you. I mean, can you imagine another four years of this same old corrupt and irresponsible government?

And speaking of such, haven't you heard? Right after all the “hacks” up on Beacon Hill got re-elected, they got brand new computers and billed them to the taxpayers. And if I were a betting guy, I bet the old ones got launched right into the dumpster rather than into the hands of the FBI.

As far as our state goes, I believe more people that do the right thing by working for a living and paying their taxes and bills on time, will continue to finish last under Patrick, forcing them to flee to another state where they can get better values at cheaper rates. They will continue to be replaced here by low income people, if that, which will continue to cause less tax revenues for the state, creating more deficits like the one you will be facing this coming Fiscal Year--worth $2 billion.

And you can continue to blame the misfits we have for voters in this state who are in need of one thing:

B R A I N S!

In the above photo, Congressman Barney Frank wasted
no time in lashing out against his tormentors during
his victory speech at the Crown Royal Hotel on Election night.

Donnie Howie Michael Bill

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