As the state ends the second month of the new budget year with no final budget, the most recent outrageous and out-of-touch Rendell quote reveals the bad intentions that he and his accomplices hold toward taxpayers and anyone who opposes their lust for more tax dollars.
On Aug. 12, 2009, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that during an interview, the governor suggested that assassinating legislators might be a good idea because of the stalled conference committee budget negotiations.
As I write this, I still find it hard to believe that he said it, and that there has not been more outrage across the state because it clearly shows the thug mentality of the Philadelphia governor.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported:
“Rendell said it all reminded him of a scene from the 1960s James Bond classic Goldfinger, in which the villain kills a room of gangsters in one fell swoop.
‘He just filled the room with poison gas and knocked them all off,’ Rendell said with a snap of his fingers. ‘You might have thought after watching those two days that that would have been a good idea.’”
If a legislator had made such a comment about Rendell, it would not only make headlines across the nation, but would result in a scorched earth investigation by law enforcement.
The budget impasse has been created by Rendell and his Democrat accomplices in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Their insistence to spend billions more than we are receiving in revenue has led to this historic stalemate.
Their callous disregard for taxpayers during this year’s budget debate is best expressed in a quote reported in a 2007 Allentown Morning Call article, by the current House Democrat Policy Chairman, Mike Sturla, when he said, “I don’t care if we stand people on their heads and shake the pennies from their pockets.”
Beware of the tax and spenders who are now trying to employ smoke and mirrors by calling tax increases, “recurring revenue sources.”
Fraud and waste revealed in audits this year by the Pennsylvania auditor general have unveiled what many of us have suspected; our welfare system is a bloated, inefficient system that allows for fraud and waste, and has been robbing Pennsylvania taxpayers of billions of their hard-earned dollars.
The welfare department expenditures are more than one third of the entire general fund budget and are ripe for reductions to erase the budget deficit.
A final budget must put taxpayers first by being a fiscally responsible plan that will ensure the tax burden is not increased this year or next.
As the budget debate continues, I will fight to protect, you, the taxpayer!