Tip o' the hat to Anna at
millsriverliberal

This guy is an idiot. He's bad for Pennsylvanians, especially for seniors and the young who absolutely NEED to be educated.
He has no concern for anyone other than business and the wealthy.

But the most interesting and ridiculous comment he's made is :
Bluntly, Corbett said education is not a must have but a nice-to-have.


What a piece of fecal matter this space cadet is. Of course, he got his education in a public school then had enough money to go to college so now it's time for him to deny others the RIGHT of a basic education...unless you want to pay a private business to give you what ever they consider an education. The man is morally despicable.

The Corbett Dilemma: Close Schools, Build Prisons
by dymeck

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's new state budget is expected to be put into law by July 1, 2011. That is when the new fiscal year begins for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In his budget comes steep cuts for education but also, Gov. Corbett is continuing the plans to build more prisons.
Hence, the Corbett Dilemma. Close schools and slash funding for education and build more prisons.


Governor Corbett is demanding that there be $1 billion cuts in education. Meanwhile, the Governor is continuing with plans (initiated under previous Governor EdRendell ) to build three more State Correctional Institutions. The cumulative cost of these three state prisons is expected to be at least $600 million.

In January, the Pennsylvania State Auditor General Jack Wagner warned against using taxpayers dollars to build new prisons.
He said the prison population has increased from barely 8,000 inmates in 1980 to more than 51,000 now.
The average cost of keeping one prisoner locked up, meanwhile, has nearly tripled from $11,000 a year to $32,000.

There were expected to be four prisons built but one project was cancelled. Unfortunately, the majority of Pennsylvanian's find acquiring gainful employment hard to come by and the cancelling of this state-run prison construction is going to cost the area ofHuntingdon County nearly 650 would-be jobs.

The Corbett Dilemma is transfixed on cutting costs yet by maintaining a judicial system set on keeping people incarcerated, defunding education, and still not allowing a competitive market for job creation (outside of the prison-industrial complex), Corbett is dead-set on refusing to introduce new taxes, increase new taxes, or tax the booming natural gas industry in Pennsylvania.

Never mind you that Gov. Corbett was a lawyer for the energy industry earlier in his career.
Corbett's budget introduces cuts to services that help the disabled and the elderly as well as cuts to K-12, early, and higher education, as well as a proposed deduction in the state workforce by at least 1,500 jobs.

Times are tough. When simultaneously discussing the cuts to education and the desire to not tax the natural gas industry, Corbett said his budget was about the "musthave's and the nice-to-have's."

Bluntly, Corbett said education is not a must have but a nice-to-have. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth is in a $4 billion hole and taxing the exponentially booming natural gas industry is not a must have.

The Corbett Dilemma is a fierce one. This can't easily be solved but one way to help steer clear of continued problems financially in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is to cut costs across the board with the Department of Corrections, which runs the prisons. Second, those costs which could be cut could open up to maintain the current level of funding plus some for education. Meanwhile, even more revenue will be generated by lightly taxing the natural gas industry and keeping the money in the areas where natural gas drilling is occurring to stimulate local development for those communities.

No, Corbett does not see things this way. He is continuing to maintain the status quo with the big natural gas industry while continuing to hit the regular folks the hardest.

Unfortunately for Pennsylvanians, the Corbett Dilemma is going to hit everyone hard. If Gov. Corbett was not raised in such a wealthy family he may understand this, instead, his values are paid in full by the energy industry.

This guy is an idiot. He's bad for Pennsylvanians, especially for seniors and the young who absolutely NEED to be educated.
He has no concern for anyone other than business and the wealthy.

But the most interesting and ridiculous comment he's made is :
Bluntly, Corbett said education is not a must have but a nice-to-have.


What a piece of fecal matter this space cadet is. Of course, he got his education in a public school then had enough money to go to college so now it's time for him to deny others the RIGHT of a basic education...unless you want to pay a private business to give you what ever they consider an education. The man is morally despicable.

The Corbett Dilemma: Close Schools, Build Prisons
by dymeck

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's new state budget is expected to be put into law by July 1, 2011. That is when the new fiscal year begins for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In his budget comes steep cuts for education but also, Gov. Corbett is continuing the plans to build more prisons.
Hence, the Corbett Dilemma. Close schools and slash funding for education and build more prisons.


Governor Corbett is demanding that there be $1 billion cuts in education. Meanwhile, the Governor is continuing with plans (initiated under previous Governor EdRendell ) to build three more State Correctional Institutions. The cumulative cost of these three state prisons is expected to be at least $600 million.

In January, the Pennsylvania State Auditor General Jack Wagner warned against using taxpayers dollars to build new prisons.
He said the prison population has increased from barely 8,000 inmates in 1980 to more than 51,000 now.
The average cost of keeping one prisoner locked up, meanwhile, has nearly tripled from $11,000 a year to $32,000.

There were expected to be four prisons built but one project was cancelled. Unfortunately, the majority of Pennsylvanian's find acquiring gainful employment hard to come by and the cancelling of this state-run prison construction is going to cost the area ofHuntingdon County nearly 650 would-be jobs.

The Corbett Dilemma is transfixed on cutting costs yet by maintaining a judicial system set on keeping people incarcerated, defunding education, and still not allowing a competitive market for job creation (outside of the prison-industrial complex), Corbett is dead-set on refusing to introduce new taxes, increase new taxes, or tax the booming natural gas industry in Pennsylvania.

Never mind you that Gov. Corbett was a lawyer for the energy industry earlier in his career.
Corbett's budget introduces cuts to services that help the disabled and the elderly as well as cuts to K-12, early, and higher education, as well as a proposed deduction in the state workforce by at least 1,500 jobs.

Times are tough. When simultaneously discussing the cuts to education and the desire to not tax the natural gas industry, Corbett said his budget was about the "musthave's and the nice-to-have's."

Bluntly, Corbett said education is not a must have but a nice-to-have. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth is in a $4 billion hole and taxing the exponentially booming natural gas industry is not a must have.

The Corbett Dilemma is a fierce one. This can't easily be solved but one way to help steer clear of continued problems financially in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is to cut costs across the board with the Department of Corrections, which runs the prisons. Second, those costs which could be cut could open up to maintain the current level of funding plus some for education. Meanwhile, even more revenue will be generated by lightly taxing the natural gas industry and keeping the money in the areas where natural gas drilling is occurring to stimulate local development for those communities.

No, Corbett does not see things this way. He is continuing to maintain the status quo with the big natural gas industry while continuing to hit the regular folks the hardest.

Unfortunately for Pennsylvanians, the Corbett Dilemma is going to hit everyone hard. If Gov. Corbett was not raised in such a wealthy family he may understand this, instead, his values are paid in full by the energy industry.