Two recent examples of wasteful spending by the House of Lords in Harrisburg: $13,700 to purchase Bibles and other holy books for the ceremonial swearing in of state lawmakers and $4,000 to purchase desktop pen set as a gift commemorating the oaths of office they took in January.
The buck (or $17,700 of them) stops with new Speaker of the House Keith McCall, a Democrat who is continuing the tradition of squandering our hard-earned tax dollars.
An editorial in today's edition of The Mercury has a suggestion about the Bibles and pen sets:
While we realize that the amount of money we are talking about here — $17,700 — doesn't amount to much when you consider the size of the state budget, recently estimated at $29 billion. But could McCall and his fellow House members get a clue at least? It's not the cost of the gift, remember — it's the thought, or lack thereof, that counts.Read the full editorial, "Desk pen sets are latest spending affront from state lawmakers," at the newspaper's Web site.
So here's what we would like our readers to do. Call your House representatives as soon as possible and ask, as politely as you can through gritted teeth, that they send the pen sets and holy books back to McCall's office with a card saying, "Thanks, but no thanks."
And ask them to put a copy of that note in their next taxpayer-funded "newsletter" they send to your home.
1 comment:
This problem shows the disconnect between the grabbers and havenots. They need another pen set like we need an another tax, As far as a holy book that will remain in pristine condition and never opened. It will increase in value if the owner is convicted of a crime. Sold on ebay and bought by one of the morons who voted them in.
If checked the profit margin on the pens and books was probably 200% without the kickback to the procurer. That $17,000. should have been used to hire a janitor to clean up after these hogs.
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