Liberals Plan ‘Anti Corbett’ Rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania

Lead by aged West Chester Democrat State Senator, Andy Dinniman, a small rally is planned in West Chester, 7 pm outside the Courthouse, in opposition to Governor Corbett’s recently proposed budget. To read Dinniman’s article in the Daily Local News calling for this rally, one would think the sky is falling.Indeed it is, and Governor Corbett is making the tough choices now for a better future for all Pennsylvania residents. To put into perspective the disaster Governor Corbett inherited , I point to an article written by Chris Freind.  Chris Freind penned a fabulous column outlining the financial troubles our state has suffered under derelict leadership of the previous administration.

Take the budgets of the last two years, which former Governor Ed Rendell championed, and were passed by a Democratic House and Republican Senate.

In 2009, $400 million in revenue was budgeted from the tolling of Interstate 80. Except that the tolling never happened. Put that in the debit column.

And last year, the budget was passed on federal Medicaid dollars that hadn’t yet been appropriated (and ended up being $255 million less than budgeted) and a Rendell-promised Marcellus Shale gas tax that would generate hundreds of millions — but which never materialized. And the forecasted general tax revenue was over a billion dollars short.

But that’s not all. The legislature and Rendell raided MCARE in 2009 — the fund to offset Pennsylvania doctors’ skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance rates — to the tune of $800 million. A Commonwealth Court ordered the money repaid, but the Rendell Administration appealed. Odds are the state Supreme Court will uphold that decision. The hole deepens.

So despite some cuts last fall, we’re still looking at a $3 billion revenue gap which, by the way, is not factored into the acknowledged $4 billion deficit. The fact that no one wants to talk about this is not surprising, since it’s not in the interest of the politicians, and most of the media doesn’t do its homework.

Let’s put this type of maneuvering into perspective. What would happen if a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, in an attempt to placate Wall Street, added billions to its books to reflect a medicine it hadn’t yet produced?

People would go to jail.

But in Harrisburg, it’s called Business As Usual. Instead of solving the real problem, the state’s leaders have resorted to what they do best: bury their heads in the sand.

I find it ironic that Andy Dinniman and his ilk who treated the taxpayer checkbook with careless abandon are now crying that it’s raining in Pennsylvania.  Speaking of useful fools, I’m quite certain the usual suspects will make an appearance at this small rally tomorrow night:

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Posted on April 26, 2011  ::  Categories: Democrat, Pennsylvania, Republican
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