Patrick:
Cut the State’s rape counseling program by 66%.
The program known as SANE – for sexual assault nurse examiners – lost 66 percent of its $2.4 million budget as part of the state’s latest round of emergency cuts, leaving too little cash for the program to survive, advocates say.
Cut the funding for The Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling by one-half to $500,000
Interestingly, I found no mention of either cut in The Globe…
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There really is nothing sacred. Priorities shift with the tide.
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p>But the Governor Patrick had the funds to pay 8 deputies with the Department of Transportation.
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p>How messed up is this?
but wants to put big brother cameras on traffic lights to watch if cars break the law and send the owner a ticket.
What’s wrong with that? Running red lights is a bad thing, isn’t it? Plus, more revenue. Everyone’s a winner.
Look over here to see why.
surveillance society.
drivers do.
are we willing to corrode our free society with, in order to boost government revenue during a recession?
cuts needed are so deep that many good and valuable programs can’t be spared.
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p>What I’m missing is the narrative to explain the tough choices made.
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p>Why this program over that one? What are the values and rationale behind the choices being made?
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I would love to hear the narrative and justification for the “tough choices” made to pay eight deputies over at the Dept. of Transportation while doing a slash and burn on SANE and counseling for compulsive gamblers for the people that we help get into the hole via Keno, and other state-aided vice.
You know, the one in Foxboro – ???