July 7, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

In the Reading Eagle today (a.k.a. Mayor McMahon’s Daily Propaganda) County Commissioner Thomas Gajewski Sr. proposed to the members of the Reading Area Transportation Study (RATS how fitting for these jackasses) a short term fix to relieve the congestion on the northern part of Route 222.

The RATS refused to take any action.

I want to commend Mr. Gajewski for taking a stand on this.  For those of you outside the area Route 222 in this section is a complete nightmare to put it nicely.  This highway even congests during off peak travel time.  In my view this road should have been upgraded over 20 years ago.  Picture only having to drive 5 miles to work, but it takes you 45 minutes to get there.

Now all of a sudden we begin to see Alan Piper kissing ass praising the plan, and how it can be started as early as 2007.  This is a much different tune from what Alan Piper stated a couple of months ago where he told us to fuck off, go to hell, tough shit, and get used to the congestion.  One of the problems with Berks County’s infrastructure is from lack of proper planning.  Alan Piper is more concerned about playing politics then doing his job, and his latest brown nosing with Commissioner Gajewski proves that point.

The County Commissioners need to call Alan Piper on the carpet and demand that he explain himself.  It has been proven that Alan Piper can’t do the job and should be fired.  When the county is facing heavy deficits down the road the last thing they need is a political clown like Alan Piper on the planning commission playing politics with their budget.  Now I know the Commissioners can play politics to as seen in the firing of Kurt Bellman as director of the elections office because he ran the office too efficient, so I would not hold my breath if Alan Piper continues to lick the feces off the rear ends of the County Commissioners for years to come.

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July 7, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Even though we voted out most of our incumbents this past May it is not stopping them from sticking it to us before they leave.  The last proposal by our elected infomercials is a bill that would increase state fees on all the nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania in an effort to fund emergency planning.  This would be the first fee increase in 14 years.  The fees would increase from $600,000 per year to $900,000 per year.  Now most of you out there probably think, “Well it’s the power companies that will pay for this, and the crooked bastards deserve it.  Governor Rendell cares about us, and loves us, and we want to give him a bug hug.”  This is far from the case.  Just as landlords pass their property tax bill down to the renter, just as stores pass the high shipping costs due to the price of gasoline down to the consumer, so will the energy companies pass down the cost of this “fee increase” which is all but another sugarcoated tax increase down to you the consumer.

Just when you think our elected infomercials out there are trying to cut back on spending with cutting their own transportation expenses they turn around and stick it to you another way.  All this is about is more TAX TAX TAX, SPEND SPEND SPEND!!!!!

Now let’s face it folks considering the budget these people just passed is a joke.  If this was such a dire need then why not include this in the budget they just passed?  These guys can break the state with pork, but god forbid if we get property tax reform.

Come January we are going to say good riddance to these elected infomercials.  The sooner they get out the better.  This is just their way of making us suffer for daring to vote them out.

Click here for the source to this story.

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1152240925173600.xml&coll=1

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July 7, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Keep those Boners down and have a good weekend.

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