The Suck ups Win Again

Governor Rendell is an idiot. Pennsylvania needs to make some cuts to its budget because it has gone over expenses by $3 billion dollars. So for the last couple weeks Rendell has been talking about budget cuts and to be prepared. I read in the newspaper today that he plans on cutting funding to state fairs (whoopee, they're boring anyway), funding for public school computers (sucks but understandable) and another cut will be in the care of the mentally ill.

Now, I understand that cuts need to be made but I think the last one is ill-advised. Mentally ill people do not receive enough funding for programs, housing and help as it is and they want to cut spending for them like they are as expendable as a state fair and a computer?! I worked in state run homes for the mentally handicapped for two years. They are PEOPLE just like you and me but need a little help.

It makes me sick when I think about how Dan Surra is making $95,000 a year to act as an advisor for the "Pennsylvania Wilds". In other words he's getting paid a ton of money to sit around in an office and pretend to know something about the forests and wildlife. Why not take that money and put it toward helping the mentally ill, you know - people that really need the money and not some smug politician who weasled his way into a cushy and made up job because he's 'good friends' with Rendell.

Oh wait, that won't happen because America has forgotten what it means to be democratic and show equality to all people not just the ones that know how to kiss ass.