The state of Pennsylvania partially shutdown Monday morning because they could not work out a solution to the budget. This prompted about 24,000 state workers to be put on furlough, without pay, and shutdown museums, parks, drivers license testing. But the governor saw fit to keep the casinos and state liquor stores open.
They have been ‘working’ at this budget for nine days and the result is that the state lost the authority to spend money on nonessential services and employees. But gambling and liquor sales, which are obviously considered essential to the state of Pennsylvania, are allowed to continue.
This brings up a point about the lottery. Gambling in this manner is such as sure bet for the state that they cannot possibly stop it. Read this to say that those who gamble on the lottery win very little and the state always wins a lot. Get a clue people.
And if they took away liquor sales there would be such a riot among the alcoholics that there would be fighting in the streets. You really don’t want to piss off alcoholics, there are a lot of them.
By the way, the reason these state employees are getting an unexpected unpaid vacation is because the governor wants a surcharge placed on residential electricity use to fund alternative energy programs and electricity conservation and the senate won’t allow it. This state has a $650 million surplus! And now the surplus will grow from money saved by not paying these 24,000 state employees.
Haven’t we been hearing for years that we need to come up with alternative energy sources? And isn’t electricity conservation a good thing? Why can’t they use some of that surplus to fund the governors project? A project which, on the surface, sounds right, but he is a politician so you can’t take anything from him on surface value. Why take money away from state employees?
Notice I haven’t identified the political parties of either side? That is because it doesn’t matter. The bottom line is that the governor is holding state employees hostage to get what he wants and the senate refuses to give in. This is pure politics and it stinks. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
The governor is simply throwing a tantrum. And both sides are being stubborn at taxpaying citizens expense, as usual.
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