Patrick is feeding Mass. to the lions

 

 The hard-working taxpayer is not getting any return for tax increases.”

 

Let me get this straight.

Massachusetts spends $2 million a month to house the homeless overflow in hotel rooms. The state gives welfare recipients free vehicles with insurance and AAA memberships paid by the taxpayer. Massachusetts plans to spend $70 million on health care for immigrants who are unemployed.  

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has added roughly 2,000 people to the state payroll since he took office two years ago: including his friend, neighbor and campaign contributor Dana Harrell, who pulls in $120,000 as the Director of Real Estate Services, a job that never existed before.  
Massachusetts has just raised the sales tax by 25 percent. We now tax soda and candy. Registry of Motor Vehicles fees have increased.

Massachusetts has laid off 114 police officers across the Commonwealth and has not put a State Police class in the Academy since 2006, meaning the Bay State is down more than 200 troopers.

Massachusetts has given at least 98 firefighters pink slips.

Massachusetts beaches don’t have enough lifeguards and pools are shuttered.

And now the Patrick administration wants to kill our animals at the Franklin Park Zoo?

This move cements the belief that the hardworking taxpayer is not getting any return for our unrelenting tax increases so we can take care of the needs of people who do not contribute to the state coffers at all.

Lawmakers approved $6.5 million in state funding for the zoo in the fiscal year 2009 budget, but Gov. Deval Patrick’s line-item veto reduced the figure to $2.5 million, according to Zoo New England. The zoo’s $11 million budget is funded by a combination of state funds, zoo revenue and private donations.

I grew up going to that zoo. My father buys a yearly family membership for my nieces and nephews. And one day I plan to take my own children there.

Free cars for welfare folk or euthanize an elephant? And this guy wants to run for reelection? No wonder there are some moonbats out there who want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote.