Governor Deval Patrick blamed gridlock in Washington’s fiscal cliff negotiations for a $540 million state budget gap he announced today, and said he would begin immediate efforts to cut local aid, reduce spending on safety net programs, and dip into the state’s reserves.
The cuts, some of which need legislative approval, are expected to have an immediate impact. They include $9 million less in the local aid funding used to pay salaries for teachers and firefighters, $11 million less than budgeted for special education funding, reductions in local reimbursements for towns to bus homeless students, and across-the-board reductions in spending on the overburdened court system.
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While DeLeo is handing out pay raises?
That this is "news" on the 4th of December is laughable. Even without the impass in Washington a monkey with a dart could have predicted this in September and I'm being kind with that date.
And the beat goes on...the reliable Blame game. Is there not One damn leader amongst these boys?
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