State Budget Crisis Day 6
Help me out with this. We’ve had a budget impass for six days now. I’m not exactly sure how it has affected me. I don’t feel any effects of the impass. In fact, life is pretty good. I’m always amused by the wording of the budget crisis. First off, is it really a crisis? If it were, why am I not concerned - and from what I can tell, the vast majority of the population couldn’t care less either. The budget is going to be late, it’s always late. Maybe if the legislature didn’t waste time at the beginning of the year on riduclous legislation, it would have had more time to work on the budget and get something passed in time. Of course Rendell wants an increase in spending and taxes - He’s wanted that since he first came into office.
The big stink right now is about the unnecessary employees - or “unessential personnel” as they are stated in the press. If they are so unessential, why do their jobs exist in the first place. Why is the government hiring people to fill unnecessary positions? I think it’s a legitimate question and I would like an answer. How would you like to be one of those “unessential” employees. I wonder how that makes you feel. Not only do we have people in jobs that aren’t necessary, but now we’ve just made them depressed by telling them that they don’t matter when it comes down to it. Way to raise the moral there. No wonder people think government’s version of customer service stinks.