John Perzel Doesn't Get It
Pennsylvania House Speaker John Perzel keeps opening his mouth and inserting his foot. One of the chief architects of the pay raise fiasco last summer, Perzel is up for re-election and may finally receive the message from voters come November. The message: you're out of touch. Last year after citizen outrage over the 2 am 34% pay raise was passed Perzel tried justifying it by claiming even workers in Lancaster County milking cows were earning $55,000 so state legislators should make more money too.
The only thing getting milked of course, were the taxpayers. They got a serious measure of revenge last month by voting out 17 incumbents. More will feel their wrath in November, including Perzel if there's any justice at all.
The pay raise was eventually repealed after voters took it out on a Supreme Court justice up for retention. Harrisburg suddenly got religeon, though not enough to cancel their automatic cost of living pay raises, whch they also got last year. Now John Perzel is continuing to attempt to justify his salary and perks and continues to try and defend the pay raise. News flash John: you cannot defend the indefensible. The Reading Eagle (sorry I can't link the article since their site doesn't support Firefox) reports Perzel saying tattoo artists make more than legislators do.
Perzel spoke on "Smart Talk," a show on WITF-TV. He also claimed that 30 state legislators have such bad credit they cannot apply for credit cards. Gee, I'd like to know which ones are so bad at financial management they can't make ends meet on $72,000/year, plus a free car and $10,000/year in per diems. We really, really need to replace them! No wonder our state budget is so difficult to pass, these morons can't balance their own checkbooks, according to Perzel.
Getting back to cow milkers and tattoo artists, though, this shows where John Perzel has lost touch. The Speaker of the House has no concept of what it's like to be a working person. People making minimum wage (about $10,000/year not including free cars and per diems) haven't had a raise in nine years. Perzel's state legislature is refusing to provide them a raise to $7.15/hour. John has no idea what it's like to raise a family at $5.15/hour. If both Mom and dad work and have two children they earn about $1800/month GROSS at full time jobs. That's before taxes folks. Subtract state income tax, FICA, and the rest and try making that cover rent, electricity, food, health care and heat Mr. Perzel.
Of course they could always go to Lancaster and milk cows for $55,000/year or become a tattoo artist and make $72,000. If anyone actually finds one of those please contact me because it'll be real news. No one makes that sort of money doing those jobs. People milking cows or working a retail job like tattooing also work far more than Perzel does. The state legislature is hardly a full time undertaking.
The voters in Philadelphia will give John Perzel a real dose of reality in November. After he's tossed on his rear he can move to Lancaster and find one of those cow milking jobs instead of milking the taxpayers.
The only thing getting milked of course, were the taxpayers. They got a serious measure of revenge last month by voting out 17 incumbents. More will feel their wrath in November, including Perzel if there's any justice at all.
The pay raise was eventually repealed after voters took it out on a Supreme Court justice up for retention. Harrisburg suddenly got religeon, though not enough to cancel their automatic cost of living pay raises, whch they also got last year. Now John Perzel is continuing to attempt to justify his salary and perks and continues to try and defend the pay raise. News flash John: you cannot defend the indefensible. The Reading Eagle (sorry I can't link the article since their site doesn't support Firefox) reports Perzel saying tattoo artists make more than legislators do.
Perzel spoke on "Smart Talk," a show on WITF-TV. He also claimed that 30 state legislators have such bad credit they cannot apply for credit cards. Gee, I'd like to know which ones are so bad at financial management they can't make ends meet on $72,000/year, plus a free car and $10,000/year in per diems. We really, really need to replace them! No wonder our state budget is so difficult to pass, these morons can't balance their own checkbooks, according to Perzel.
Getting back to cow milkers and tattoo artists, though, this shows where John Perzel has lost touch. The Speaker of the House has no concept of what it's like to be a working person. People making minimum wage (about $10,000/year not including free cars and per diems) haven't had a raise in nine years. Perzel's state legislature is refusing to provide them a raise to $7.15/hour. John has no idea what it's like to raise a family at $5.15/hour. If both Mom and dad work and have two children they earn about $1800/month GROSS at full time jobs. That's before taxes folks. Subtract state income tax, FICA, and the rest and try making that cover rent, electricity, food, health care and heat Mr. Perzel.
Of course they could always go to Lancaster and milk cows for $55,000/year or become a tattoo artist and make $72,000. If anyone actually finds one of those please contact me because it'll be real news. No one makes that sort of money doing those jobs. People milking cows or working a retail job like tattooing also work far more than Perzel does. The state legislature is hardly a full time undertaking.
The voters in Philadelphia will give John Perzel a real dose of reality in November. After he's tossed on his rear he can move to Lancaster and find one of those cow milking jobs instead of milking the taxpayers.
posted by PA progressive @ Saturday, June 17, 2006
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